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.
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Yep, for the kill shots
bkmk Dallas
I have never been able to rationalize how a rifle bullet could pass through JFK’s head at a downward angle from behind (Book Depository window trajectory) and not completely remove the front of his skull. Have always believed the kill shot was from his front. But for the Warren Commission I suppose it was like the old Saturday Night Live commercial for a five bladed razor, “Why? Because you’ll believe anything.”
I stand corrected, Jackie was trying to collect pieces of his skull off the back of the car.
RFK jr believes the CIA was involved - that’s enough for me.
L8r
JFK wasn’t taking on the Derp State as if it were some altruistic enterprise to save the country. He was trying to co-opt it to establish permanent power for himself and his designated successors. Huge difference.
I tend to disagree. He was very much an idealist.
Arlan Spector, young Federal Prosecutor in Philadelphia came up with the single bullet theory. It created the opening for him in politics.
It also explains the deal with the devil he made with Obama before he died.
He stole the 1960 election. This was not a good guy. Nixon as President from 1961-69 and we’d have been on a different and better course. Castro would’ve been removed and more decisive action in Vietnam. It was too late for Nixon to clean up the mess by 1969 that JFK-LBJ and the Dem supermajorities had created.
There are a few excellent YouTube documentaries on Oswald and his history with the CIA.
After watching them, I had no doubt.
That may be true. Nixon was also CIA. Henry Kissenger worked with Dulles and the OSS in Germany after WWII.
Oswald: “Looks like a nice day. Maybe I’ll go downtown for a while, and catch a movie later on, and just try to stay out of trouble.”
It was Allen and John Foster Dulles. John Foster, who the DC Airport is named after was United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959 (due to his colon cancer diagnosis) and was briefly a Senator from New York in 1949.
Nixon was the far greater threat to the establishment, as it turned out. The left was out to get him since Alger Hiss. Had he been in favor of better economic policies (his worst point), we could’ve had a boom-time under his administration. Unlike JFK, who was terrified of Khrushchev, Nixon knew he was full of hot air and wouldn’t have started WW3 over Cuba.
This is the only scene Seth said he never did on Family Guy, they eventually removed it from the streaming versions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpz5F6xV40U
The shooter in the sewer grate in front of the car got the kill shot ... aka the Smoking Man.
Yep, well done and thorough documentary.
There were 2 limo’s available to use that day..
A hardtop and a convertable..
The hardtop was the scheduled vehicle.
It got changed at the last minute.
Only 2 people on the planet could have changed the vehicle, JFK or Jackie.
JFK did not order the change.
Jackie ordered him killed.
Hell hath no fury like that of a woman scorned.
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