Agents from JFK secret service element worry assassination fact will die

The two surviving secret service officers who have been defending John F Kennedy when he was murdered worry the reality about his demise will die with them.

On the sixtieth anniversary of the homicide, Clint Hill and Paul Landis have spoken out because the world stays divided over the killing. The two males, who rode within the presidential cavalcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, are involved their info will give strategy to falsehoods after they die. Hill, who leapt on the again of JFK’s limousine after the capturing, feels strongly about his legacy.

He says: “It concerns me a great deal because there aren’t many of us left and eventually, the way things have been going, the conspiracy theories are going to win out, and then you won’t have any factual information about what happened. It should be documented. It should be factual, not conspiratorial.”

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Few of these current in the course of the homicide in Dealey Plaza witnessed the tragedy as intimately as Hill and Landis, who had been assigned to First Lady Jackie Kennedy’s element. Despite his 91 years, Hill vividly recollects the pictures ringing out.

He says: “All of a sudden, I heard an explosive noise from over my right shoulder. I began to turn, but my eyes remained fixed on the President. He grabbed his throat and fell to his left. I jumped off and ran to try and get to him, to Mrs Kennedy, to form a barrier to protect them.”

Hill climbed on the presidential limousine – one of many moments captured on movie by clothes producer Abraham Zapruder – because it started to speed up away. Hill has steadfastly maintained his perception the demise was attributable to “one man, one gun, three shots”, and that former Soviet Union defector Lee Harvey Oswald pulled the set off.

Hill has at all times agreed with the Warren Commission’s conclusion that neither Oswald nor the person who shot him lifeless, Jack Ruby, have been a part of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Hill’s then colleague Landis has now revealed one thing that some say explodes the magic bullet concept. He was on the operating board of the automobile behind Kennedy when the pictures have been fired.

Landis, 88, says he observed a bullet lodged behind Kennedy’s automobile. He provides: “I saw the bullet and my immediate concern was to secure it. There was chaos, and the last thing we needed was for evidence to be mishandled.”

Fearful the bullet is likely to be misplaced, he positioned the seemingly undamaged projectile on the stretcher carrying Texas Governor John Connally. This act gave rise to the magic bullet concept – launched by the Warren Commission – suggesting a spherical hit Kennedy within the again, exited his throat, then struck Connally, who had been in entrance of JFK.

Landis has damaged his silence by writing his guide, The Final Witness. His account is a significant improvement. There are many theories about what number of gunmen have been concerned, who was in the end accountable, and what number of bullets hit the president. Dr Cyril Wecht, a medical-legal marketing consultant who’s an skilled on many high-profile deaths, says Landis’ revelations disprove the idea one of many bullets hit each Kennedy and Connally.

Wecht mentioned: “It pours more concrete over the gravesite over the single bullet [theory].” He believes a small group together with the Italian Mob and rogue parts of the CIA could have been behind the killing. Wecht says: “The motive would have been to stop Kennedy’s socio-political agenda, nationally and internationally.”

Many folks suppose there’s nonetheless essential proof being hid. Two attorneys – Lawrence Schnapf and William Simpich – together with the Mary Ferrell Foundation, are suing the US authorities in an try and get hold of extra data concerning the assassination.

A listening to is scheduled for December 14. Regardless of whether or not this quest for info will give ammunition to conspiracy theorists, Hill doesn’t count on to vary his view about what occurred 60 years in the past as we speak. He says: “There are very few people left who were present that day, and we’ll all be gone soon, and there will be no one left to tell the facts.”