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The [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|Kennedy assassination]] spotlighted the bravery of two Secret Service agents. First, an agent protecting Mrs. Kennedy, [[Clint Hill (Secret Service)|Clint Hill]], was riding in the car directly behind the presidential limousine when the attack began. While the shooting continued, Hill leaped from the running board of the car he was riding on and jumped onto the back of the president's moving car and guided Mrs. Kennedy from the trunk back into the rear seat of the car. He then shielded the president and the first lady with his body until the car arrived at the hospital. | The [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|Kennedy assassination]] spotlighted the bravery of two Secret Service agents. First, an agent protecting Mrs. Kennedy, [[Clint Hill (Secret Service)|Clint Hill]], was riding in the car directly behind the presidential limousine when the attack began. While the shooting continued, Hill leaped from the running board of the car he was riding on and jumped onto the back of the president's moving car and guided Mrs. Kennedy from the trunk back into the rear seat of the car. He then shielded the president and the first lady with his body until the car arrived at the hospital. | ||
[[Rufus Youngblood]] was riding in the vice-presidential car. When the shots were fired, he vaulted over the front seat and threw his body over Vice President | [[Rufus Youngblood]] was riding in the vice-presidential car. When the shots were fired, he vaulted over the front seat and threw his body over Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.<ref>{{cite news|title=Johnson Praises Agent's Bravery: Honors Guard Who Shielded Him in Dallas Shooting 'Courage' Is Cited|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 5, 1963|page=32|agency=Associated Press}}</ref> That evening, Johnson called Secret Service Chief [[James J. Rowley]] and cited Youngblood's bravery.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,875362-2,00.html|title=The Transfer of Power|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=November 29, 1963|access-date=June 25, 2007|archive-date=September 30, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930115642/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,875362-2,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|title=Johnson Says Agent in Dallas Screened Him With His Body |newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 27, 1963|page=21}}</ref> Youngblood would later recall some of this in his memoir, ''Twenty Years in the Secret Service''. | ||
The period following the Kennedy assassination was the most difficult in the modern history of the agency. Press reports indicated that morale among the agents was "low" for months following the assassination.<ref>{{cite book|title=Twenty Years in the Secret Service|publisher=Simon and Schuster|location=New York |year=1973 |first=Rufus |last=Youngblood |pages=147–149}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v4n1.html|title=Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect the President|access-date=June 29, 2007|archive-date=June 29, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629215728/http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v4n1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The agency overhauled its procedures in the wake of the Kennedy killing. Training, which until that time had been confined largely to "on-the-job" efforts, was systematized and regularized. | The period following the Kennedy assassination was the most difficult in the modern history of the agency. Press reports indicated that morale among the agents was "low" for months following the assassination.<ref>{{cite book|title=Twenty Years in the Secret Service|publisher=Simon and Schuster|location=New York |year=1973 |first=Rufus |last=Youngblood |pages=147–149}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v4n1.html|title=Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect the President|access-date=June 29, 2007|archive-date=June 29, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070629215728/http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v4n1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The agency overhauled its procedures in the wake of the Kennedy killing. Training, which until that time had been confined largely to "on-the-job" efforts, was systematized and regularized. | ||