The Zapruder film, a 26-second, 8-mm silent color film shot by Abraham Zapruder, is the only known evidence in countless conspiracy theories about who shot President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. It was used as evidence in the case against Lee Harvey Oswald, who shot Kennedy. The film was a key piece of evidence for the Warren Commission, appointed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination. Despite the commission finding no evidence of a conspiracy, Life’s refusal to release all parts of the Zapruder film was cited as evidence of a cover-up by conspiracy theorists.
The killing of JFK became more than just a savage murder of a leader; it became a metaphor for the larger breakdown of our world through conspiracy theory. The Zapruder film cannot prove or disprove a conspiracy, as it shows the fatal shot to the president’s head in graphic detail. The idea that Abraham Zapruder stood awkwardly on a pedestal in Dealey Plaza with his movie camera and created a film of the JFK assassination is pure fiction.
The Zapruder film is considered the most important 26 seconds of film in history, as it shows the 486 frames of 8-millimeter Bell + Howell home movie footage shot in the midday sun of Dallas. Claims of a broader conspiracy behind JFK’s assassination have persisted for nearly five decades.
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Random note: In 1978 I was living in DC and my female boss invited me to her family’s Thanksgiving dinner because she knew I was alone. Her Dad was a Special Agent of the FBI and she always bragged to me that he was “good friends with the Director” (Hoover). So, I went to this sprawling farm out in the Maryland suburbs for Thanksgiving dinner – just my bosses immediate family and me. While the ladies were making dinner me and the old man and his son were having a drink in the den. I was 26 and just making conversation – I asked the old man what he really thought happened to JFK. Man, the guy morphed like a werewolf – I had struck one helluva nerve. His face got beet red, the veins in his neck stuck out, and he went on a rant. Pardon my language but the guy’s words ring in my ears. He barked that JFK was a “goddamned communist” and a “fucking whore monger” and that he and his brother “got what they deserved”. He went off – I can’t even remember what he said after that part….this guy was like a rabid dog. I kinda tuned out….the whole thing felt so freaky. JFK was not nearly dead enough for this guy. This is our FBI, kids. I will never forget that exchange as long as I live. I have the guy’s obit – found it online. He was a Special Agent in ’63, by the way. He struck me as a complete lunatic – and it certainly confirmed, to me, that some members of our intelligence agencies wanted Kennedy dead. I’ll never forget the day JFK died and I will never forget the words of that FBI guy.
What I never understood was If Oswald actually did it, why didn’t he shoot when he had a nearly perfect opportunity when the motorcade was coming up N. Houston street toward him? He had a prime, elevated position where the target is coming straight on. Why wait till he turns the corner and proceeds across his field of view? Anyone who has ever hunted would understand the difference.
This Woman’s remarks about comparing trying to remember something from last week to such a highly traumatic and shocking event are laughable. I am 60 years old and I remember distinctly, very clearly when I was 13 when a guy chased me and my best friend around one night in California close to our homes and tried to run us down with his car. I can remember it like it was yesterday.
From the many articles, it could be seen that the first thing was, JFK slumped slightly forward holding his throat (that was the shot from behind) and seconds later, his head flung backwards and pieces came out from the back of his head. Jackie could be seen climbing backwards to retrieve part of it. This shot was from the front. So, a very simple question, if Lee Oswald was the lone gunman, how could he be in 2 different places at the same time?
I love this. The thing i love about it the most is that We The People are NOT giving up on finding out the truth about what actually happened on Nov. 22, 1963 & the days/years to follow. I have done a lot of research on the JFK assassination & i will NOT stop until we find out the truth. Like Jim Garrison said though “it might become a generational thing passed down from father to son, mother to daughter” until we find out what really happened. We not only owe the truth to ourselves & our country but, mostly to the family of John F. Kennedy & everyone else that suddenly died right around the time of the assassination all the way up to the time that the Warren Report came out. The fact that our government is still stating they can’t release ALL of the classified documents because of “National Security” after almost 60 years tells us that it was our government that assassinated our President. Please never stop searching for the truth.
In one of the films you see a black male and a white male sitting on the curb right where JFK was struck in the head. When the shot is fired the black male looks back over his right shoulder towards the grassy knoll and appears to be talking on a handheld radio. The white man never looked around. Stared straight ahead. Both wearing dark glasses and not dressed the same. Folks, in 1963, no white man and black man are going to sit shoulder to shoulder on a curb anywhere in the south. Even though people didn’t hate blacks in the Bible Belt, they would never socialize like this in public. After JFK was shot they just sat there as calm as could be while everyone else was running or diving for cover. Spotters for the Shooters. There were three. Oswald, the shooter on the grassy knoll and another in the building next to the book depository. You can’t bend physics of trajectory to fit this. You just cover it up with a believable story. Every investigation into Oswald being the lone shooter runs into problems because of this. Now that we know the CIA killed JFK things are starting to come together. This is why the CIA refused to release the documents when ordered by President Trump. This is why 8 hours after telling the press he ordered the release of documents he was back on the news that night saying it’s going to take another 6 months. 6 months later nobody mentioned it and Trump lost the election. Problem solved. President Truman said it was the CIA. President Eisenhower warned us they were becoming too powerful.
My 2 cousins were both in gov’t as was my Dad. One worked for the CIA as a intelligence specialist. He spoke 6 languages and my other cousin was a forensic accountant for the FBI. My uncle was a Colonel in the Air Force assigned to military intelligence in 1963. My Dad was a chemical weapons engineer. He was consulted during the Cuban Missile Crisis. They all said the CIA along with the “help” of Johnson took him out. Allen Dulles of the CIA / OSS and some very wealthy war hawks wanted Kennedy “removed”. They also said that RFK had to go as well as he would have opened up a real investigation as to what happened. I have hunted many times over the years with high powered rifles and I can tell you that if I shot from a height of 6 stories up of any building, no one on the ground level would smell gunpowder. No one. I could fire 60 rounds and they wouldn’t smell it. JFK was shot from the front. The question to ask today is: How really Free are we? Term Limits for ALL Federal Employees except the military, Border Guards and the Coast Guard.
There were definitely at least two or more shooters shooting at President Kennedy in Daley Plaza that fateful November day in 1963 ! SHOT No. ONE – hit JFK in his throat as JFK initially reacts by instinctively grabbing at his own throat (shot made from the front which penetrated the Presidential limousine’s front windshield), Shot No. TWO – struck JFK in his upper right side back (with no exit wound – possibly the “pristine bullet” which was later found by S.S. Agent Landis) in the Presidential limousine at ParklandHospital, Shot No. THREE – missed JFK altogether and struck a section of concrete curb/pavement near the triple overpass causing a shrapnel of that pavement to strike a pedestrian (McTigue ?) on his cheek, causing it to bleed, who was observing the Presidential motorcade, Shot No. FOUR – missed JFK again and burrowed into the grass causing a shallow trench in the grass near the Presidential limousine (that bullet as later retrieved by an unidentified Dallas Police Dept. Detective and was never recorded as evidence), Shot No. FIVE – hit then Texas Governor John Connolly (the supposed “Magic Bullet” incorrectly identified by the Warren Commission as the “pristine bullet” ref: SHOT No, TWO above), Shots SIX and SEVEN – simultaneously strike JFK in the head from the right side and front killing him (large halo of blood, skull bone and brain matter ejected to the rear and left side of the Presidential limousine (Ms. Kennedy climbed on trunk of the Presidential limousine to retrieve a portion of JFK’s skull fragments (S.
😊All of us knew that something far more horrible than a murder had occurred. The far right had him in the crosshairs for years. They wanted war, war, war to play with their nuclear toys and keep the country in constant internal and external conflagration. Kenney had a vision of something better, for which his own countrymen killed him. All hope went out of us that day.
those miltary ball bullets will shoot thru SEVERAL men. I doubt it stopped in Kennedy even if it DID first hit the car. it’s possible that armor plating would slow down the bullet that much, but ten the bullet would have been mangled. that bullet was planted there and JFK’s head shot was from the FRONT.
Those who cast doubt on Paul Landis (like Clint Hill, who shamelessly keeps propping up the Warren Report) can’t refute the fact that Parkland hospital nurse Audrey Bell, in a 2013 article interview that is still on YouTube, said SHE SAW A BULLET LAYING ON KENNEDY’S STRETCHER, between the earlobe and his shoulder. She commented at that time that she never saw or heard about that bullet again. That obviously was the bullet Landis put there. Furthermore, if you read the cross examination that Arlen Specter of the Warren Commission did of the maintenance man who found a bullet on a hospital stretcher, the man was NOT confused about where he found it. There were two stretchers bumped together and he found it on the bloodied one. But Specter and the W.C. CHOSE to believe it came from Connally’s stretcher (even though there was zero proof of that), so they could claim it was the same bullet that struck both JFK and Connally. What Landis has now proved is that there was more than one shooter.
I talked to Clint Hill 2x. He tried, but could not explain the bullet trajectories if it was only one shooter (LHO). I came away wondering if Hill was in on the cover-up of the (CIA/Mafia) conspiracy. (I remember that day vividly, even though I was a 4th grader at the time.) Very interesting, to say the least, that LBJ immediately had the limo sent to Ford in Michigan, where they destroyed the windshield, refurbished the car, etc. It was a CRIME SCENE! Not to mention an historic artifact. It was kept in service well into the 1970s.
Note to Nichole Berlie: Many of us have very good long-term memories; some of us don’t! I happen to be one who has excellent long-term memory. I’m almost 71 and I remember Everything, very well, since the age of four, forward! My own sister at 69 can’t remember last year! We’re just All different! The Warren Commission lied about Many things! I believe that Oswald WAS a patsy! Our own government pulled this off! Welcome to America!
I’m not a ballistics expert. But, to me, if a bullet is traveling slowly enough to just fall out with no bullet damage, it’s not going to hit anywhere near the aiming point on a moving target. The 6.5 carcano bullet, as long as it is, would also become very unstable at that low of a velocity and become wildly inaccurate. I’m not buying that theory for a second.
I have vivid memories of events surrounding November 22, 1963. When shots were fired, I was in the dispensary of Great Lakes Naval Training Center picking up medical records for my trip home to Dallas. A radio was blaring a description of those events at the time. That evening I caught a train for my trip home. While riding in the train and approaching Dallas, my train pulled over to a siding creating a delay. I learned on arrival, the delay was due to Lee Harvy Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby. The train station where I arrived is only a block south of Dealy Plaza.
I heard Landis on radio years ago for just a few minutes. He told the same story, but he said he put the bullet on the stretcher in the hallway, although I may remember it incorrectly. You can see the shallow back wound in photos of JFK autopsy. You can read how doctors could not find the bullet pathway . I also heard that carcanos often didn’t shoot properly the bullets could lose velocity. I believe this is the accurate story. It means there were four or even five shots. It makes much more common sense. While most witnesses heard only three shots, others heard two reports coming almost simultaniously, there was a head shot, a missed shot, a throat shot, a back shot and Connolly’s shot. Even if it did go through Kennedy and Connally, it is not the pristine bullet. That bullet was fragmented everywhere, under the front seat, under the jump seat and some of it remained in Connally. I believe there were four shots. Likely Oswalds shot missed, and one made a shallow wound.
I’m a retired State Trooper Investigator. So – when this occurred on 11/22/63 he does not inform any supervisor or ever write a report (police work is NOTHING BUT WRITING REPORTS incidentally) about finding this bullet, a critical piece of evidence in any homicide case but a Presidential Assassination? So, – if this guy has such a great memory at 88 years old now, THEN WHY DID HE KEEP THIS SECRET over 50 years? And just10 years ago he finally reads a book about the assassination? You gotta be kidding. How long was he an agent, when did he retire, what other assignments did he do? What did he do after the Secret Service? At a minimum, I’d polygraph this guy a few times with several different examiners. He has no other scene witnesses and no other corroboration but now writes a ghost book and the case now comes to a crashing halt? No way, without my questions and a few more answered first.
After the Bay of Pigs fiasco JFK was threatening to shut down the CIA & Allen Dulles was fired they decided to murder a sitting president whom we still mourn JFK. We still mourn for the innocence that was brutally stolen from us in the 60’s. I was in the 3rd or 4th grade and there was a black rotary dial phone on my teacher’s desk. It rang and she answered it and immediately dropped the phone crying and ran out of the classroom. We were in total shock. The whole country was. Even Walter Cronkite! We were innocent back then and we LOVED our President!!! My dad voted Republican but we were still innocent. America & Americans were raped by the DEEP State that Eisenhower warned us about. Evil men committing Evil acts with absolutely no regard to GOD or people.🙏❤️✝️💟🔥🇺🇸
This latest “pristine bullet” explanation defies the logic of terminal ballistics. JFK was killed during a coup d’etat. Sam Giancana and the Chicago Mob, under contract to the CIA, conducted the hit. Chuck Nicoletti, working directly for Giancana, was the rifle shooter and shot from the Dal-Tex Building directly across the street from the Texas Book Depository. Nicoletti, however, only succeeded in wounding JFK (and Texas Governor Joh Connolly) but did not deliver the kill shot. The kill shot was fired by Chicago Mob/CIA backup hit-man James E. Files, firing from behind the wood fence atop the Grassy Knoll. Files was working under the direction of Chuck Nicoletti, while his CIA handler was David Atlee Phillips. Files used a Remington XP-100 prototype (i.e., not the final production version) chambered in 222 Remington. This prototype single-shot handgun, which was decidedly ‘overbore’ when chambered in 222 Remington, was subsequently re-chambered in 221 Remington Fireball before released to the hunting public in 1963 as a deadly accurate bolt-action single-shot handgun to be used for “varmint hunting” with 150 yards or less. The kill shot – fired from the right front – hit JFK in the right temple and explosively destroyed his brain before exiting out the rear of JFK’s skull. The comparatively tiny (i.e., 22 caliber) bullet entrance wound, together with the massive exit wound at the back of JFK’s head, was later – during the official autopsy conducted at Bethesda – observed by the attending physician and a 19-year-old USN corpsman named James C.
if the first bullet missed and hit a curb, the second bullet caused the back wound and fell out and the third caused kennedy’s head wound, that leaves kennedy’s frontal neck wound and connolly’s wounds unaccounted for. and where was the exit wound of the frontal neck wound? is the bullet still in kennedy’s body??
Projectiles not moving at intended velocities for the sighted rifle would have completely different trajectories. There is no reason they might arrive at the same position with such a significant variation in energy. At least not from the same rifle or the same shooter in so short a sequence. P.S. Lee Oswald did not shoot anyone on the long ago day in Dallas.
Some time in the 1970’s or 80’s there was a live simulation set up with proper range and angles. They brought in the best snipers in the world. None could do the shot(s) within the time frame. I feel, based off the film, he was hit from the front. The kinetic energy throws Kennedy’s head back. If he was hit from behind, his head/body would’ve gone forward.
A group of British investigators, years ago, published a documentary program, well-researched, that described multiple hit teams from persons who had grudges against Jack. I tend to be scrutinous, which is why the single bullet theory, or the Oswald alone theory, never felt right; but it is why I was extremely observant, as I reviewed the presentation. It made sense, was not merely plausible, but probable. In a book which I had read, a few years prior, the handling of the crime scene, which included the limousine and the body and clothing, was absolutely botched. That the Secret Service cleaned and repaired the limo without taking pictures or saving samples, with no forensic examination, is beyond inexcusable. FBI got kept away, and Dallas PD did not push, although they had an agenda of their own. Even the haste of Johnson’s swearing in, which took away the influence of the widow and the Attorney General, allowed this superficial behavior, and the incompetent or deliberate obscuration of truth. In a side note, under US law, we have been wrong to declare Oswald as Kenney’s killer. Since he never stood trial, he may be called a suspect, but not declared guilty. Indeed, in a mock trial, he was acquitted, as he should have been. These denials of the Warren Commission and Dallas Police conclusions, all make sense, under the standards of investigation and evidence, which got shamelessly violated. I have not let go of the belief that LBJ was heavily involved in the cover-up, perhaps the crime itself.
According to the Warren Commission Report Volume II, page 352, testimony given on 16 March 1964 the autopsy doctor noted that, “The diameter of the entrance wound (in President John F. Kennedy’s skull) was (…) 6.0 mm.” When a bullet hits, an entrance wound will expand slightly, so one of the fired bullets had to be less than 6.0 mm in diameter. Oswald’s bullets were 6.5 mm in diameter which would make the entrance wound greater than or equal to 6.5 mm. The trajectory from an exploding bullet that blew out the upper right portion of Kennedy’s skull had to have come from behind at a much lower angle than that of the 6th floor book depository window of the sniper position of Oswald. Doctor Fisher claims that the entrance wound was higher than that of the autopsy’s report, meaning that the trajectory had to have come from street level, and through the back right of the midline of Kennedy’s skull to have the front exit wound above the right brow as seen in the Zapruder film. Back to the 6 mm entrance wound. Since Oswald’s weapon couldn’t make that shot from his angle, and his bullet was too large to make a 6 mm entrance wound…whose weapon could. Ten witnesses smelled gunpowder coming from the motorcade, at street level, including the witness Senator Ralf Yarborough, seated next to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, following directly behind the secret service follow-up car: he was 2 cars behind the Kennedys’ car. You cannot smell gunpowder unless you are upwind of it. How could they smell Lee Harvey Oswald’s gunpowder when he was 6 stories high and behind them?
Surely the agent leaving the pristine bullet on Kennedy’s stretcher was in his after action report. To have not reported his actions would have been a serious breach of chain of evidence protocol. To leave it on the stretcher where anyone present could have disturbed it is questionable. Just one more thing that doesn’t add up surrounding the assassination event.
What about the new footage of the Secret Service being told to stand down before the president actually goes on the drive towards where he got shot? You saw Secret Service running by the car and then one of them stands away from it with his hands out like asking why what’s going on what’s going on and then the car went on without them.
There was a second shooter theory on the sixth floor, a guy who worked in the building before it was a school depository told me in a phone call there was a place in the boiler room where a rifle could be hid is a second shooter was there & Oswald did not have to know about a second shooter, the extra shots he might have thought to be echos. That area could very well be a place for echos.
Just one aspect of the Zapruder film is enough to cast doubt on the ” Lone Gunman ” myth. Kennedy’s head was driven violently backwards with skull fragments landing on the trunk lid. This could not have happened if the shots had come solely from the rear. The law of conserved momentum prevents this possibility. How and why the “Oswald was the lone gunman firing from upper right rear” myth still has any currency is beyond me.
🤔 People really are stupid. They still won`t admit that Oswald wasn`t the only shooter, if he even was one at all which i don`t believe he was. Anyone who has fired a gun and is familiar with Ballistics and how an object or a person reacts when a high velocity projectile ( Bullet ) hits it / them will instantly know from perusal the Zapruder film that, the fatal head shot came from the FRONT of the President and NOT from behind him. One of the bullets, as shown in the Zapruder film hit Kennedy in the back, it pushes him forward, that`s either the bullet that goes through his neck or the one mentioned here that hit him in the shoulder, my monies on the former because as he`s pushed forward he grasps at his throat. The next bullet hits Governor Connelly`s wrist and ends up in his thigh, this would indicate a downwards trajectory, so possibly from the book depository but in the opposite corner to where Oswald was supposed to be, but my monies on 500 Elm which is the Dallas County Records Building, that was behind the presidents motorcade and gives a clear unbroken line of sight vantage point, unlike where Oswald was supposed to be that was partially blocked by a Tree, a Texas Live Oak, blocking the first two shots, Oswald couldn`t have fired those two first shots as he would have been shooting through a tree. The final bullet hits Kennedy in the right front temple just above his right eyebrow, the force of the impact pushes him BACKWARDS and to his LEFT which is consistent with a bullet travelling towards him originating from his right.
I was behind the fence in the grassy knoll with my mother and sister about 10 minutes before Kennedy was to drive by. A Dallas cop in uniform without his hat, which was unusual, came up to my mother’s window and said “get the fuck out of here now and I’m not going to ask you again” like we were a threat. We drove off and double parked next to the school book depository building on record street when I got out and ran to see Kennedy. I pushed my way to the front of the crowd when Kennedy drove by and then everyone turned to walk away when the first shot rang out. I’m the 9 year old kid in the orange shirt standing on the corner of the school book depository building in some of the pictures taken towards the Schoolbook depository building. My mother was traumatized and had a mental breakdown thinking we were going to be murdered. I believe I recently found out the name of the cop that ran us off.
The President was triangulated by three gunmen. One was atop the county records office which was documented and confirmed witness sightings, one was made from the the fence behind the grassy knoll (who most likely escaped by getting into the trunk of a car and waiting for a driver to return and simply get into the car and drive off, as witnessed by the railroad yard worker who was in the switch tower, and two men, not one, were seen by witnesses in the Texas School Book Depository. And echos suggest that a forth fired a shot from across the street from the entrance to the viaduct. Bullet fragments were found in the grass near where several witnesses across the street from the grassy knoll said they saw a disturbance to the grass, and a fragment of one hit a curb just feet away from that one, plus fragments hit a young man who was standing at the entrance to the viaduct. So one hit the Governor, at least two hit the president, one hit the grass, one hit the curb, and it is said that the fragment that hit the young man may have come from a missed shot from the top of the records building that hit a metal traffic light pole. There is also others which is revealed accidentally when Life Magazine printed a commemorative book (I have one) that shows that a bullet went through the windshield of the limousine while yet another, taken of the limo at Parkland shows a bullet hole in the chrome windshield edge where the driver’s visor would have been just below, a bullet hole which appears to have bent the chrome inward, showing that the bullet came from the rear of the limo.
Okay folks well this is how it went down a hit man wearing a police uniform had the kill shot that made his head go backwards that’s obvious so there was a shooter in the front on the hill behide the fence after the shot he turned and handed the rifle a another man wearing a railroad uniform he took the rifle apart and put it in his railroad bag and walk towards the tracks and that was that. And I’m sure he died within six months to a few years after that because they all did that knew and was involved innthe assination
This account raises questions, but it doesn’t raise the questions that you asked. The first question that it raises is why Agent Landis would be derelict in his duty to write this important information in the report that he and all of the other agents submitted that night and the next day. If he found the “pristine” bullet and put it on a stretcher, why didn’t he say something? As an agent, did he really think that putting a bullet on a stretcher was a proper chain of evidence choice? That makes no sense. This guy’s explanation is also suspect. If the bullet landed on the upholstery on the back of the seat and not on the metal top of the car, I can see how it would have stayed there. If the bullet was loose on the back surface of the car, I don’t think the bullet would have stayed in that position during the drive to the hospital. The drive wasn’t long, but the bullet would roll and slide easily on that surface. This explanation fails to account for the ease with which the bullet would fall off the back of the car if it had fallen out of Mrs. Kennedy’s clothing. Another problem that I can ascribe to semantics is that the guest describes what the agent found as “fragments” at one part of the article and as a “pristine bullet” in another part of the article. Fragments and an intact bullet are not the same thing. I wish you had clarified that point. I am very skeptical of the idea that this bullet had enough energy to go where aimed and hit the president with enough energy to go a short distance into his shoulder but penetrate no further.
I think anybody who has studied the assassination would come to the reasonable conclusion that it was a Mafia ordered hit. Sam Giancana ordered the hit. Kennedy was sleeping with his girlfriend and the Kennedy’s reneged on their father Joes deal with the Chicago outfit helping him get elected in 1960. Dealey Plaza was the perfect place for the hit involving multiple shooters as it offered crossfire potential. Personally I believe there is evidence for both shots from behind Kennedy (TSBD) and another building, as well as in front from the picket fence behind the grassy knoll. Oswald was an associate and when he was captured he was taken out by Jack Ruby who was a mob associate. Johnny Roselli and others have been linked for ages to the assassination. There are too many links to the mob for them not to be involved. It was widely known in mob circles too that they were involved.
the back shot to JFK only penetrated maybe half an inch. so yes it likely was brushed out onto the shelf by Jackies frantic movements. another likely candidate was the throat wound that entered from the front through the windshield. it was intended to hit JFK in the head but it was deflected downward upon penetration of the windshield. the wound that every attending physician said was a frontal entrance wound. a doctor enlarged the wound to insert a tracheal tube to aid JFK’s labored agonal breathing. the death shots: two. the first from the rear jerked JFK’s head forward then a split second later a shot from the front hit JFK’s head pushing him onto Jackies lap and spewing gory brain and skull matter onto the police motorcyclist (Bobby Hargis) that was riding on the left side of the limousine. BTW I was 8 that horrific day and remember it like it just happened yesterday. teachers crying. classes ending at noon. Uncle Walter. then Oswald’s mob assassination on Sunday.
I have a question. Why would an experienced secret service agent pick up a bullet from the presidents limousine and just lay it on a gurney? Why didn’t he collect it as evidence? when he left it on the gurney it was no longer direct evidence. It could’ve been left there by anybody”. That part of the story does not make sense
Oswald hit with one shot it was a shot that went thru the Presidents neck and hit Gov Connally who was sitting in a lowered seat and his body was turned. It was the single bullet that ended up on a gurney. The bullet that hit Kennedy in the head was an accidental fire from an M-16 by the Secret Service agent in the follow car. The bullet went through the Presidents head and was lodged in the limo windscreen. ( A bullet fragment also cracked the windscreen ) This is why the Secret Service whisked the body away so fast out of Dallas. They didn’t want it getting out. The Secret service has a long history of allowing Presidents to be shot. Remember Reagan?
Well, he screwed up big time, leaving that bullet on the gurney. If he collected evidence, he should have maintained custody and tagged it as evidence at the proper location. That’s evidence collection 101. No wonder we have no clue what really happened if all the evidence was handled so haphazardly! 😮
Hathcock Instructor sniper school (USMC) with 93 confirmed kills including history’s longest single kill-shot of 2,500 meters : “Let me tell you what we did at Quantico. We reconstructed the whole thing: the angle, the range, the moving target, the time limit, the obstacles, everything. I don’t know how many times we tried it, but we couldn’t duplicate what the Warren Commission said Oswald did”.
LBJ ordered the FBI to set up two patsy to be the shooters and not known to each other, one a policeman and the other a Russian sympathizer, the plan after the shooting was to end their lives after the shooting quickly and on the spot, one man the policeman was executed fifteen minutes away by an FBI operative the other made it out of the depository before FBI could get to him, so FBI came up with a plan B a man known to FBI broke and had cancer offered him a huge sum that would look after his family for the rest of their lives to take down the remaining man so he would not talk and the rest is history. The reason the FBI did not assassinate the President themselves is because of the backlash against LBJ and the Democrat party if they were caught.
I have always know that this was a CIA, I was with my grandmother when this came over the air. I was young, I looked at my Grandma told her Oswald wasn’t their man. Someone else shot at JFK. But, I have done my research since this day, the Government in how we knew it is corrupt to the core. Growing up in the Corrupt world, I couldn’t find a church to go to, I tried going to College and take Paralegal, well the professor want me to write a paper, as he wanted me too. So, I quit. I have never fitted into this Corrupt World, I have no Family. My Dad knew that we didn’t have to pay income tax, because he didn’t. So, I also know that JFK lived to be 100. and JFK, Jr and a lot of the others are still with us. Wake Up America. And President Trump is our President or Commander in Chief Military code 11.3 . President Trump has been primed for this. Wake up America This is my opinion.’
If this story is true, then how did Kennedy get an exit wound in the front, at the base of his neck? If that wound was actually an entry wound, where did that bullet end up? And where did the bullet that injured Connally four or five times end up? And with multiple shooters in every direction, and people everywhere, how did no one else get shot except for the guy who was downrange from Oswald’s position? Too many questions…
This is the first time I’ve heard that the cartridge was under-powered. That there was less gunpowder in the cartridge, therefore it didn’t have enough energy to cause Connolly’s wounds. But if it was underpowered, how would that affect the trajectory? Wouldn’t the bullet have dropped from it’s point of aim? Were they all underpowered? It seems to me whoever was shooting they had a consistent grouping. So was all the ammo underpowered? I’ve heard conjecture that the scope was way off to it’s point of aim; when they tested the gun, where did the ammo come from? Was it fully charged enough to bring the scope back into accuracy? Any marksmen out there want to critic this supposition? Thank you.
I was 12 years old and a bus driver told me. I saw it on TV and the Oswald assassination too. I remember the time and the location(s). I think that I would remember such a disastrous event even more intensely had I been so intrinsically involved as this police officer would have been. I have never believed in magic bullets.
One bullet, two bullets, who the heck cares; they still came from the same shooter. If you know anything about shooting, and I do as I reload my own ammo, to believe his theory that the bullet was old and did not have full power is hard to swallow. I have WWII ammo that I still shoot and it is fine, in addition if it was old and under-powered it is hard to believe it would have had the necessary velocity to stay on target and hit the president at all. At a slower speed it would have dropped more on its way and missed. He claims it hit him in the shoulder but did not penetrate, if it made it there on-target it would have had enough energy to do some damage. Sounds like a lot of BS, especially the part about putting the bullet on the stretcher; who in the world would do that?
A few years ago I was on a business trip to Dallas. I was making my way back to my cheap motel and took the wrong exit and got all turned around. I was stopped in rush hour traffic and realized where I was – at the spot Kennedy was killed. I could see the book suppository behind, and the grassy knoll to the right. The Warren commission just didn’t make sense in light of the layout of the scene.
Hmmm, So a secret service agent finds a bullet it’s likely almost certainly involved in the murder of the president the United States and then just put it on the stretcher at the hospital and walks away?? That sounds more like something my 85 year old mother-in-law would do no trained Secret Service agent. Also these bullets were round, right? And the back of a limousine is flat, right? That limousine was moving, not just leisurely but in an effort to get to the hospital, right? I’ve taught physics and chemistry and one of the things that I taught in my physics class was that round things roll on flat services. I’m just joking, I didn’t teach that. Everybody already KNOWS that. As for the memory, OF COURSE he’s going to remember the details. I saw a guy get murdered about 40 years ago. I remember almost all the details. So the memory thing doesn’t surprise me.
I was 61 at the time of the shooting. I remember my father and grandfather saying “to plan something of this magnitude it had to have been the CIA, no way they would have left it to one shooter.” I’ve been fascinated with this ever since. Also, how many others were out there with cameras and article cameras, but quickly turned them over to the authorities thinking they were helping. Of course those cameras and article cameras were never seen again.
Interestingly, no one recalls Landis’ presence in the ER; and the idea of an SS agent finding crucial evidence and instead of turning it in immediately, pocketing it and subsequently dropping it on a stretcher, is ridiculous on its face. Landis coming forth only after five+ decades further sinks his credibility. The irresistible conclusion here, to all rational and reasonable folks is that Paul Landis is a fabricator.
It makes no sense. The most important man in the world was just shot and killed you have a bullet from this horrible sene yet you leave it purposely. Would you have kept it and turned it in during the major investigation you know is coming? That makes no sense whatsoever. And how would a fully intact ex bullet be just there like you fired into water. None of this make sense at all.
Boloney, bullet stuck in his back) on neck shot JFK put his hand’s up to his throat it went through him as that reaction show’s he’s not reach toward’s his back. JFK wore a Back brace because of his bad back from WW2. Maybe Bullet slowed down going through back brace? but in that cae defiantly wouldn’t be pristine bullet.
One thing that 99.9% of these commentators/experts always miss is the huge exit wound disparity, the exit wound on the base/front of his neck was a small hole, concentric with a 6.5 Carcano round’s shape and ballistics. The Head would was a different rifle and it too was fired from behind but more at head level. There were two early variant Colt AR-15 rifles (with the original 1/14 rifling twist rate barrels) in the Secret Service car behind the limousine and one Agent. The 1/14 twist rate rifling is significant because with a 20 inch barrel and a 55grain projectile @ 3200fps, the exit wound trauma is dramatic. Some years later, there was multiple ballistic tests with these types of rounds and weapons with cadavers. In those tests, the AR-15 round head trauma was nearly identical with Kennedy’s head wound. It has been theorized that SS Agent Hickey’s AR-15 was accidentally discharged as he crested the rear deck of that vehicle with is rifle and that round hit Kennedy in the head. There is a lot of evidence to support that theory.
There was multiple shooters involved. There is only 2 ways a head blows apart like that. From a 50 cal far away or from a point blank shot. It was a point blank shot from governor Conley. The zupruder film confirms this.The other shots were timed distraction shots. With the car moving under the underpass at 30 mph. Mystery solved.
I was 17 and attending Heald Business College in San Jose, California. Our teacher broke down sobbing at her desk. I thought she was going to collapse from the news of hearing about Pres. Kennedy. It was such a shocking event that our teacher had to leave for the remainder of the day. I will always remember! Former Pres. Trump is in MUCH DANGER now, and during his campaign tour he has had at least three other attempts to his life. Arizona, South Carolina, and I believe in Georgia also.
Read a book by someone who investigated this. He said Oswald’s shot was from behind and hit the president. That’s when the president grabbed his throat. A secret service agent in the following vehicle raised his rifle to return fire towards Oswald’s firing position. The vehicle accelerated and jerked the agents rifle firing accidentally on the up swing striking Kennedy’s head. That was the kill shot. Thats why there was a smell of gunfire at ground level. If Oswald was sighting through his scope for a second shot he had a close up view of the kill shot. Probably thinking that someone else was also shooting at the president.
The rifle Oswald used was an ancient Italian army model that was taken out of production because too many Italian solders using them would be killed as the bolt shot back into their heads. Stories of that rifle model told of dead men in groups, after a conflict, laying in a shooting position on the ground, because so many of these rifles killed the men who were using them in combat. Why would a so-called “expert” like Oswald use such a rifle? Even the scope was very rudimentary.
I agree that the shot in Kennedy and the shot in Connolly were two separate shots. That does not discount the single bullet theory completely, but the fact that Kennedy was already shot before Connelly is hit, proves it. There is no evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald did any shooting at all. He was seen in the second floor lunchroom just before the shooting, and he was also there within 90 seconds after the shooting. He could not possibly have run up four flights of stairs shot the president with two shots. Because the rifle was only fired twice and I can prove that. Who shot the president then in the head because the 43 inch Carcano rifle, that was not the weapon that Oswald was pictured with in the backyard. Was found with no rounds in it and is it only been fired twice. The rifle that Oswald had purchased was a carbine version of the same rifle in the same caliber. But that rifle was never recovered. The shot that hit Kennedy, hit him in the back of the skull and exited up above his right ear. Which means he couldn’t possibly have come from the Texas School Book Depository. And that building had only existed as the school Book Depository for about 6 or 8 weeks. The round that hit Kennedy in the back of the head, causing the convulsive reaction of his back and neck muscles which drove him back after being driven forward, please look at the specific frames of the film. You will see exactly that occur that his head actually goes forward when it struck about 3 to 4 in, and it is pulled back by his convulsive reaction.
So you’re saying that was fairly dust the hit Conley, broke his rib, wrist and punctured his leg . The bullet you are talking about was a planted evidence, someone at the emergency entrance at Parkland Hospital planted that bullet when everyone was gathered around the limousine. That bullet was fired into a barrel of water or something similar to match the planter rifle. The officer that found the first rifle in the book depository said it was a Mauser and had a photograph of the manufacturer plate on the gun . The Dallas police presented an Italian rifle that matched the bullet found at Parkland Hospital.
Look at the shooting in slow motion frame by frame. 1st it is difficult at best to figure this out. Especially as a regular citizen and without access to evidence. As Jacqueline starts to climb / fast crawl out of her seat on to the trunk it seems she knows or has an idea the shot is from the front. Her moves look more like she wants to escape. Could it be from the one in the front passenger seat? I’ve seen a article with that guy, so my first impression would be no way. But without guessing where do the facts lead? :>/
No one should be a news anchor who uses bad English grammar! I hate when anyone says “you know” in the beginning, middle or end of their sentences. My dad was a college English teacher for 35 years at Cuyahoga Community College in Parma Ohio and he held a master’s degree in English from Michigan State University. He instilled immaculate speaking & writing skills in my brother and I since we were children. I never say “you know” or any English grammar speaking errors. I occasionally make mistakes writing English grammar.
I was 23 years old on November 22, 1963 and lived in Washington, DC. I attended the JFK funeral. I have tracked all the reports and read a book or two by eyewitnesses, and generally kept up with new assassination developments over the years, and especially recently. I have believed that the Mafia was involved, the FBI, Lyndon Johnson, Castro, the Russians, and the CIA. I never believed that Oswald could have made all the shots. He is just not capable. He was involved and may have taken 3 shots, one missed, one was the first shot that hit JFK and the other shot hit Connelly (I think he did have time to shoot Connelly separately). The kill shot could have come from the front or the rear — the evidence is not conclusive. Given that witnesses attest that they saw a flash and smoke from behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll, the evidence points to a 2nd shooter, or even more, but not conclusively. Did they recover all the bullets? I have never heard that aspect covered directly or completely. Even so-called forensics experts arrive at different conclusions. After listening to all the Parkland hospital trauma room doctors tell their stories and differing from each other in some aspects, and politicians tell theirs which is a cover-up, and eye-witnesses tell theirs and they remember things differently, and knowing how people remember the same traumatic event differently, I am still uncertain what actually happened and who actually was behind the assassination and carried it out.
He’s right about remembering exactly where you were when this happened. I was 11 years old, no school that day, my grandmother, mother, brother and I had just finished eating lunch in El Monte, CA, we went into Woolworth’s Drug Store, a woman came running saying the president had just been shot, everyone in that store including employees went to the back of the store to where the televisions were, there we watched a scene of people praying in a chapel when a narrator said: “Ladies and gentleman the president of the United States is dead.”
Aside from Landis’s credibility, which has been called into question numerous times since the assassination due to frequently changing stories and conflicting memories, the way he claims to have handled the bullet in question and what he ended up doing with it absolutely and egregiously violates every single rule regarding forensics and the empirical chain of evidence. To me it is just mind boggling and completely unfathomable and doesn’t add up in the least.
If you were JFK and knew that the CIA was infiltrated with bad actors and they were going to use mental patients, drugs and hypnosis to brainwash them to open fire on school yards killing children to change the gun laws in an attempt to disarm America, do you think this could be the reason why he was taken out, especially if he threatened to put it on the nightly news? I think the one country that would be behind it would be the same country who lost in 1776.
William Greer – the driver of the limo did it & that’s why Jackie O is seen scrambling out the car towards the back – to get away from the driver. If the shot was from anywhere outside the limo she would have got her head down. The fact she’s seen getting away from the front of the car says it all. Greer used a gas powered assassination pistol so there was no smoke.
Oswald quit school in 10th grade, joined the Marines, was stationed at the same place the U2 spy plane was invented as an Aviation Electronics Operator, and yes, he was cleared to handle Classified info while in the Marines, he also studied Russian language, the Marines even gave him, for some strange reason, a Russian language proficiency test, then he got into ‘trouble’ shooting some guns unofficially and was court-martialed, twice and jailed, then he said his mom was sick and honorably released from active duty in the Marine Corps, a little while later went to Russia (October 1959), got a decent job and a nice place to stay, state-sanctioned, of course, not even citizens got such pickings, met a girl, Marina, her uncle was Ilya Prusakov, a colonel in the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, got married 6 weeks later, then decided he wanted to go back to the US, so the Embassy gave him his passport back, and gave Marina immigration papers, and since they are so nice, gave them a loan to get back to the U.S., too. That alone, during the height of the cold war, is ridiculous.
This guy is absolutely right, I remember very clearly where I was on 9/11/01, I was in 8th grade middle school, we had a television in the corner of the room up on the wall and it was always on news with the sound turn down but when my teacher looked up and saw that there was smoke coming out of the World trade center she turned up the volume, I can’t remember if we actually saw the second plane hit the second Tower or not but I certainly remember where I was that day.
I’m very disappointed in Agent Lanis who obviously knew in 1964 that the WC concluded that LHO acted alone yet he waited 60 years to show the world that the magic bullet was fantasy like we all knew anyway. I’m glad he spoke out at this point & didn’t take this secret to the grave. Undoubtedly the second shooter/shooters have died by now. But it would be nice to finally solve the crime of the century