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Story Merchant Client Clint Hill Honored As Concordia College 2011 Alumni Achievement Award Winner

Former Secret Service agent, author to speak

MOORHEAD – Concordia College 2011 Alumni Achievement Award-winner Clint Hill (1954), a former Secret Service agent who was with President John F. Kennedy the day he was assassinated, and Lisa McCubbin, the co-author of “The Kennedy Detail,” will speak during homecoming week at 7 p.m. Oct. 12 in the Centrum, Knutson Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.

By: Forum staff reports, INFORUM

MOORHEAD – Concordia College 2011 Alumni Achievement Award-winner Clint Hill (1954), a former Secret Service agent who was with President John F. Kennedy the day he was assassinated, and Lisa McCubbin, the co-author of “The Kennedy Detail,” will speak during homecoming week at 7 p.m. Oct. 12 in the Centrum, Knutson Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Hill was in the motorcade in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, assigned to protect Jacqueline Kennedy, when the president was assassinated.

After leaving Concordia, Hill entered the U.S. Army and served as an intelligence agent. He was discharged in 1957 and entered the Secret Service. He retired in 1975 as an assistant director.

He and McCubbin are writing the book “Mrs. Kennedy and Me,” which will be published in spring 2012 by Simon & Schuster.

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