Mrs. Kennedy Tries to Retrieve Body Tissue

After the fatal shot was fired, Mrs. Kennedy suddenly attempted to climb onto the trunk of the President's car. Her Secret Service agent, Clinton J. Hill, told the Warren Commission what she was trying to do.

In his 3/9/64 testimony, he said: "... the second noise that I heard had removed a portion of the President's head, and he had slumped noticeably to his left. Mrs. Kennedy had jumped up from the seat and was, it appeared to me, reaching for something coming off the right rear bumper of the car, the right rear tail, when she noticed that I was trying to climb on the car. She turned toward me and I grabbed her and put her back in the back seat, crawled up on top of the back seat and lay there."

The questioner (Arlan Specter) then asked whether Mr. Hill had observed anything "that she might have been reaching for."

Agent Hill responded: "I thought I saw something come off the back, too, but I cannot say that there was. I do know that the next day we found the portion of the President's head. . . It was found in the street. It was turned in, I believe, by a medical student or somebody in Dallas."