My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy

Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781982181130
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Biographies
• Index: Politics & International Relations

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Mrs. Kennedy and Me comes another New York Times bestseller, which reveals never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill's travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through Europe, Asia, and South America. Featuring more than two hundred rare and never-before-published photographs. While preparing to sell his home in Alexandria, Virginia, retired Secret Service agent Clint Hill uncovers an old steamer trunk in the garage, triggering a floodgate of memories. As he and Lisa McCubbin, his coauthor on three previous books, pry it open for the first time in fifty years, they find forgotten photos, handwritten notes, personal gifts, and treasured mementos from the trips on which Hill accompanied First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy as her Secret Service agent—trips that took them from Paris to London, through India, Pakistan, Greece, Morocco, Mexico, South America, and "three glorious weeks on the Amalfi Coast." During these journeys, Jacqueline Kennedy became one of her husband's—and America's—greatest assets; in Hill's words and the opinion of many others, "one of the best ambassadors the United States has ever had."As each newfound treasure sparks long-suppressed memories, Hill provides new insight into the intensely private woman he always called "Mrs. Kennedy" and who always called him "Mr. Hill." For the first time, he reveals the depth of the relationship that developed between them as they traveled around the globe. Now ninety years old, Hill recounts the tender moments, the private laughs, the wild adventures, and the deep affection he shared with one of the world's most beautiful and iconic women—and these memories are brought vividly to life alongside more than two hundred rare photographs, many of them previously unpublished.In addition to the humorous stories and intimate moments, Hill reveals startling details about how traveling helped them both heal during the excruciating weeks and months following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. He also writes of the year he spent protecting Mrs. Kennedy after the assassination, a time in his life he has always been reluctant to speak about. My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy unveils a personal side of history that has never been told before and takes the reader on a breathtaking journey, experiencing what it was like for Clint Hill to travel with Jacqueline Kennedy as the entire world was falling in love with her.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Preface
• Chapter 1: The Trunk
• Chapter 2: Paris
• Chapter 3: The Diary
• Chapter 4: Hyannis Port & Palm Beach
• Chapter 5: A Historic Journey
• Chapter 6: Mrs. Kennedy Meets the Pope
• Chapter 7: India
• Chapter 8: Pakistan
• Chapter 9: Mrs. Kennedy & The Queen
• Chapter 10: Latin America
• Chapter 11: Middleburg
• Chapter 12: The Spy Camera
• Chapter 13: Ravello
• Chapter 14: The Sketchbook
• Chapter 15: Wexford
• Chapter 16: The Palm Beach Incident
• Chapter 17: 1964
• Chapter 18: Stowe & Antigua
• Chapter 19: New York City
• Chapter 20: One Last Trip
• Chapter 21: Moving On
• Chapter 22: Farewell
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Photograph Credits
• Copyright