The U.S. Secret Service is mourning the loss of one of its legendary agents this week.

According to NewsNationNow, Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leaped onto the back of John F. Kennedy's vehicle after he was shot, has died. He was 93.

Hill was forced to retire from the agency earlier than he would have liked to because he said JFK's assassination haunted his memories.

"Hill died Friday at his home in Belvedere, California, according to his publisher, Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. A cause of death was not given," NewsNation wrote.

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Hill is revered within the Secret Service community and was given multiple awards after his actions on that fateful day. But he still blamed himself for not reacting as fast as he would have liked to.

The late agent often said he would have gladly given his life for the president.

"If I had reacted just a little bit quicker. And I could have, I guess,” Hill said during a CBS "60 Minutes" interview in 1975, shortly after he retired at age 43. "And I’ll live with that to my grave."

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Only in recent years was Hill able to begin to accept what happened that day and attempt to put it behind him, according to the report.

The outlet noted:

On the day of the assassination, Hill was assigned to protect first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and was riding on the left running board of the follow-up car directly behind the presidential limousine as it made its way through Dealey Plaza.

Social media reaction

Users across social media reacted to the news of Hill's passing, with many who knew him paying tribute to his career and who he was as a person.

"Clint Hill was a man of manners. A courtly man who deplored bad language, always stood when a woman entered the room, and dedicated his life to the service of others. A private man who was loathe to talk about himself but eventually did so with the help of a woman who loved him. A courageous man who guarded five presidents, risked his life every day for two decades, overcame the kind of darkness that many cannot, and carried in his pocket a business card that spelled out the proper way to make the drink he preferred," Mike Rowe wrote on X.

He added, "A legend in the Secret Service, who was, in the words of Robert Frost, 'A man acquainted with the night. A man who walked out in rain and back in rain. A man who out-walked the furthest city light…'"

Clearly, Hill's legacy and place in the history books will live on.