Posted on 09/09/2023 10:10:56 PM PDT by Morgana
A former Secret Service agent who was present at President John F. Kennedy's assassination has come forward with a new claim that would debunk the 'magic bullet' theory and raises questions about whether there was a second shooter.
Paul Landis, 88, broke his silence on Saturday, nearly 60 years after Kennedy was shot dead in a motorcade passing through Dallas, to share his bombshell recollection with the New York Times.
Landis, who in 1963 was a young Secret Service agent assigned to protect First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy, said that in the chaos following the shooting, he picked up a nearly pristine bullet sitting on the top of the back seat of the open limousine.
It was just behind where Kennedy was sitting when he was killed, he says. Landis says he took the projectile and placed it on the president's hospital stretcher to preserve it for the autopsy investigators.
That bullet, the first piece of evidence logged in the murder investigation, has for six decades been said to have been found on the stretcher of Texas Governor John Connally, and was hypothesized to have fallen free from a wound to his thigh.
Landis thinks the bullet may have rolled onto Connally's stretcher from Kennedy's while they were next to each other.
It has long been known as the 'magic bullet' -- the bullet that supposedly passed through Kennedy's neck from the rear, then entered Connally's right shoulder, struck his rib, exited under his right nipple, passed through his right wrist and hit his left thigh.
But Landis' assertion that it had actually exited Kennedy in his Cadillac could lay waste to the magic bullet theory - and bolster the claim that Lee Harvey Oswald did not operate alone on the day of the murder.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Heard the same thing.
His head was blown back and to the right, back and to the right.
Impact from rifle round to the human head from the rear would have blown the front of his skull and his face all over the interior of the limo.
The body went back, and the back of his skull and brain matter were blown over the trunk lid. Back and to the right!
The feds were behind it, possibly including GHWB.
Just goes to show you what can happen when good men do nothing.
Yes, Oswald shot the President, but a hungover Secret Service agent accidently fired the fatal shot. Two shooters.....
From the way he story is written, it is impssible for me to determine whether the Cadillac comment was the writer’s or the agent’s.
Therefore until that is clear, it does not make the story less interesting.
“Landis, then 28, was part of the motorcade, riding the rear of the right running board on the black Cadillac convertible, code named Halfback, just feet behind the presidential limousine.”
This is either fake news, the NYT has idiot writers, or both.
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/kennedy-limo/
IMHO, President Ford should have waited until AFTER the 1976 election (which Ford probably would have won) to pardon Nixon,
IMHO, that pardon cost Ford 4 more years as POTUS, and, due to the disastrous Carter presidency, IS STILL costing the USA socially, politically and economically in many, many ways!
When it come to investigations of this sort facts are the order of the day.
Believing in someone is for religion.
“Hmm.
I see Paul Landis is selling a book that comes out October 10”.
BTTT
Is it November already? My 75 cents worth; a few that had serious motivation. Disclosure: I have been a conspiracy theorist since I watched Ruby kill Oswald on TV to shut him up. Then the first Mark Lane book.
Who benefited most. LBJ of course, then the CIA, then the Mafia, then the Cubans who wanted revenge for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. American Cubans not Castro.
LBJ was known for his lust for power. Being VP to those Kennedy boys was more than difficult for him. They put him in a box. He was older and after 8 years of JFK would probably not be able to get nominated and elected.
LBJ stole his first election with a “found box” of ballots. Supposedly found in the trunk of his car. Rumored to use a Texas hit man now and again. Forgot the name, but he may have been the one in the window with the rifle, not Oswald who was likely in the lunch room down stairs. LBI benefited the most and his supposed comment to his former secretary at dinner the night before (after tomorrow we won’t have Kennedy to worry about anymore) kind of seals the deal. Lastly, LBJ set up the warren commission and Hoover who he had in his pocket, to have a quick investigation and not to blame the communist so we could supposedly avoid war. Letting Castro and Russia off the hook at the onset.
The CIA we know was to be disbanded or reorganized. They were set on a big war in Vietnam. Kennedy wasn’t being a team player.
I think it was 99 when Showtime ran a movie called Bonanno a Godfather’s Story. I sat amazed when after the movie they interviewed the old don who died in I think 2002.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179804/
Bonanno said, the mob killed Kennedy and one of the shooters was in the sewer grate. I read since then the angle of a shot from there would have been impossible. What to believe?
When Carlos Marcello was godfather of New Orleans reporting to Giancana in Chicago, Robert Kennedy lost a case to deport him since he had been in the country only about 65 years and somehow never became a citizen. The hearing was in NO and he controlled a lot of people including judges. After losing in court, Kennedy had him swooped up off the street and dumped in the hills of Guatamala without a wallet. Somehow 3 days later he was back in NO. Motivation.
In the book it describes why he was the man behind the assassination and that it was planned at his restaurant on Lake Ponchitrain, where they put bodies in barrels and released them off the back dock of the place into the water. Ferry and Oswald reputedly at the meeting. Marcello could not have done that without approval. Which brings us to Sam Giancana.
RFK was going after Giancana and Hoffa who ran one of the largest pension funds in the country. The Teamsters. Interesting when at the time JFK and Giancana were both boffing Judith Exeter. The mob was known for skimming off pensions like the teamsters, the longshoremen and the United Mine Workers In fact The mob got the UMW behind Kennedy and he won the WV primary when Humphrey was ahead nationally. That primary gave Kennedy the momentum and Humphrey was defeated by JFK. They also controlled some of the poll workers in Chicago where Chicago tuned in their vote count last in 1960 and Kennedy won over Nixon by the margin in that state give or take. When Daley was asked where his vote count was, by Kennedy’s campaign manager, he reportedly said, let me know how many votes you need.
When it was seen that RFK with his brother’s approval was going after the mob, Giancana sent mob fixer (the man who worked with the CIA to try to kill Castro, you remember poison his drink or his cigar) Johnny Roselli to Hyannis Port to talk to Joe Kennedy and get him to stop what the boys were doing and remind them who their friends were that got them elected. The old man said the boys would be there at Christmas and he would talk to them then. He suffered a major stroke and subsequently it was clear by their actions JFK snd RFK weren’t going to let up with their prosecution.
This is my readers digest version of the motivation of some to kill JFK. I also believe because of obfuscation the truth will never be clearly known. The strategy of the plotter is to confuse with numerous theories. Notice how quickly when something comes out it is so quickly debunked. And notice how many theories there are. I believe that is by design to fog up and confuse. Example a guy in prison says he pulled the trigger behind the grassy knoll fence. A month later someone says it wasn’t him.
Lastly, E Howard Hunt was not home on the day of the assassination. Although he said he was. His home was in Virginia near DC. SPECULATION: He was in Dallas. Even his son said he was not home. A noted plumber and CIA operative.
Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy? Mark Lane 2013.
also a vampire killer as far as i’m told A very talented man.
Not trying to sell this guys book but establishing the fact that this is exactly what is going on.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/new-jfk-assassination-revelation-upend-lone-gunman
In 1960 Johnny Roselli was invited to be part of a CIA-Mafia plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. Trafficante and Giancano were already involved and other mobsters had an invested interest having lost their casinos in the Cuban revolution. However, the plot failed as did the CIA’s Bay of Pigs invasion.
It is speculated that he was then part of a conspiracy involving Giancana, Trafficante, Lansky and New Orleans boss Carlos Marcello, along with elements of the CIA and Texas oilmen, to assassinate John F Kennedy. James Files places Roselli alongside Charlie Nicoletti in Dealy Plaza, as one of the assassins.
The fact that Sam Giancana was murdered just before he was due to testify before the United States Senate Select Committee about the attempted assassination on Fidel Castro should have discouraged Roselli from testifying, but it didn’t. His testimony is still classified, but on August 9, 1976 his remains were found in a 55 gallon steel drum floating in Dumfoundling Bay near Miami.
He left his Florida home to go out for a game of golf and was not seen alive again.
His story actually makes Oswald as the lone shooter even more plausible.
The grassy knoll is only several feet to the right of the pedestal Zapruder was standing on.
“I thought that Jackie was trying to help the SS Agent who was climbing over the trunk, into the car, presumably to help with JFK.”
‘Beats the “picking up brains” theory...
“Yes, Oswald shot the President, but a hungover Secret Service agent accidently fired the fatal shot. Two shooters.....”
1) One of my crime lab ballistics-examiner colleagues (former Army Intelligence) advised that a radio found near the Depository’s window had Oswald’s prison-ID pencilled inside it. That was a requirement of the prison’s rules.
2) Another of my colleagues (a brilliant examiner, BTW) opined that JFK was shot by a Secret Service Agent.
Australian researchers some years ago explained the magic bullet by analyzing the positions of Connelly and JFK in the limo. Connelly was seated on a jump seat lower than the backseat and had turned slightly to the right. The researchers constructed a 3D model and the bullet path is straight
+and Texas oilmen)
Burt Lancaster’s “Executive Action”
I seem to vaguely remember Ford saying something really stupid, about the Warsaw Pact. I think that didn’t help him either.
She was retrieving part of his brain.
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