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An Explosive JFK Assassination Tale From A Retired Secret Service Agent

My First Impression of Separating Fact From Fiction

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Gerald Posner
Sep 10, 2023
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Everyone interested in the JFK assassination has focused for years on the dwindling number of files still sealed at the National Archives. Many long time researchers hoped that revelations in those documents would provide big news for the upcoming 60th anniversary of the murder this November.

It turns out the development that will have assassination researchers buzzing was published today in a New York Times article by veteran reporter, Peter Baker. The startling new claims about the case come from a person, not something retrieved from old files.

At its center is an 88-year-old former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, who was part of the motorcade that fateful day in Dallas. Landis, one of the agents assigned to protect Jacqueline Kennedy, was in the car directly behind the president. Landis’s extraordinary claim is that while at Parkland Hospital, where there was a frantic effort to revive the mortally wounded president, he found a whole bullet lodged into the back of the rear se…

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