John F. bodyguard Kennedy: Failed completely that day

Has spent almost half a century , but the world still remembers the moment he was shot on U.S. President John F. Kennedy .

Now for the first time about one of the bodyguards , who was at the scene . Clint Hill , now 80, said : " I feel responsible . Failed completely that day . "

Hill was actually the wife of the president 's bodyguard Jackie Kennedy . But he was the first who jumped on the limousine to protect the president from bullets .

" I did not think about my safety . I thought only have to defend it , " Hill wrote in his memoirs .

He describes the assassination of the day thus : " After the first two bullets , saw how Jackie Kennedy was carrying her husband 's head . It was precisely the moment when the president was hit by the third bullet . Contact the bullet on the head was the same as in cement write a melon . At that moment broke the back of the head of President - blood , brain and bone pieces made ​​particles collided in my face , body and clothing . "

They rushed to send the president to the hospital, but it was too late .

Died 48 hours later Lee Harvey Oswald and the bomber , in the same hospital . A gunman fired on him when he was going to prison .

Hill worked another year for the widow of the president and later became a bodyguard of President Lyndon Johnson .

In 1975 he left office because there could secede from feelings of guilt .

To be able to sleep and forget always drank whiskey .

He had not said in public that he felt guilty for losing the president . Even then he received a bravery medal . But says he did not feel proud of ...