47 Years Later: Admissions of pain and guilt

President and Mrs Kennedy in their open touring car. Clint Hill is on the back of the limousine

A number of the surviving members of President Kennedy's Secret Service protection detail are starting to open up about what happened on that sad day and how they have coped with their sense of failure to protect the President. Of course President Kennedy seems to have had little regard for the dangers of his office and was notorious for keeping his bodyguards at a distance.