Minutes later, John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead. “I stayed by Mrs. Kennedy’s side for the next four days,” Mr. Hill wrote in The Times. “The woman who just a few days before had been so ...

Agent Hill was seared into history on Nov. 22, 1963, when he jumped onto the Kennedys' limousine in Dallas to shield the first couple from a gunman Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE ...

People who hired Verne Kennedy learned to trust his polls in political races. But then-U.S. Sen. David Vitter objected to his findings during the 2015 governor's race.

Only political insiders knew his name, but Verne Kennedy played a significant role for decades in deciding who would be elected governor of Louisiana. Kennedy was a pollster whose survey results ...