Sixty years after the Dallas attack, a witness to the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy breaks his silence.
Paul Landis, a Secret Service agent who was a few steps away from the American president when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963, tells his truth about what happened in Dealey Plaza for the first time.
In the book “The Final Witness”, which will be released in October and of which the New York Times has obtained a copy, he overturns the “magic bullet” theory supported by the Warren Commission, which when investigating the crime declared that only Lee Oswald was the shooter. According to the Warren Commission , one of the bullets fired at the then president's limousine hit not only Kennedy but also Texas governor John B. Connally Jr. in several places . In particular, it pierced the governor's shoulder, chest and wrist, stopping on a thigh. A "strange" round, so according to another theory there was someone else shooting, from another direction, and Oswald was not the only one responsible.
The “incriminating” bullet was found on the stretcher on which Connally lay at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Landis, however, who that day was standing on the running board of a Cadillac following the president's car, reveals that it was he who found the bullet in the limousine in which Kennedy was travelling : he therefore took it to prevent it from being stolen and took it with him to the hospital where he placed him next to Jfk on the stretcher thinking that it would help the doctors understand what had happened. At a certain point - it is his idea - the two stretchers must have been brought together and the bullet slipped from one to the other, Connally's.
«There was no one to secure the scene. All the agents were focused on the president. I was afraid that an important piece of evidence might disappear and so I took it,” Landis reconstructed.
(Unioneonline/D)
