[RECENT ARCHIVES] MIDLIFE [COVER-UP UNCOVERED]-19. Sunday, September 10, 2023 - "The Final [Bullet]."
It's a long read with a multitude of historical and evidentiary variables, but read it in its entirety, and take away this - Paul Landis, former Secret Service Agent, is literally dropping the bullet - pun intended - in the cover-up, revealing that there was in fact a conspiracy to conceal that President John F. Kennedy was killed amidst crossfire, including debunking the single-bullet theory in the Warren Report.
Landis's own account also reveals the weight of his own guilt for tampering with evidence, then remaining silent about it for six (6) decades.
In his own words:
"It was not until 2014 that [Landis] realized that the official account of the bullet differed from his memory, he said, but he did not come forward then out of a feeling that he had made a mistake in putting it on the stretcher without telling anyone in that pre-'CSI,' secure-the-crime-scene era.
"'I didn’t want to talk about it,' Landis said. 'I was afraid. I started to think, did I do something wrong? There was a fear that I might have done something wrong and I shouldn’t talk about it.'"
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I would conclude that the below account is a willful lie. He likely realized that he witnessed the coordinated effort to assassinate the President, but willingly chose to steer clear under the weight of what that broader reality meant, and what it might mean for him.
"That’s when [Landis] said he noticed the intact bullet in the seam of the tufted dark leather cushioning. He said he slipped it into his coat pocket and headed into the hospital, where he planned to give it to a supervisor but in the confusion instinctively put it on Kennedy’s stretcher instead."
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"His memory challenges the theory advanced by the Warren Commission that has been the subject of so much speculation and debate over the years — that one of the bullets fired at the president’s limousine hit not only Kennedy but Gov. John Connally Jr. of Texas, who was riding with him, in multiple places.
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"What it comes down to is a copper-jacketed 6.5 mm projectile. The Warren Commission decided that one of the bullets fired that day struck the president from behind, exited from the front of his throat and continued on to hit Connally, somehow managing to injure his back, chest, wrist and thigh. It seemed incredible that a single bullet could do all that, so skeptics called it the magic bullet theory.
"Investigators came to that conclusion partly because the bullet was found on a stretcher believed to have held Connally at Parkland Memorial Hospital, so they assumed it had exited his body during efforts to save his life. But Landis, who was never interviewed by the Warren Commission, said that is not what happened.
"In fact, he said, he was the one who found the bullet — and he found it not in the hospital near Connally but in the presidential limousine lodged in the back of the seat behind where Kennedy was sitting.
"When he spotted the bullet after the motorcade arrived at the hospital, he said he grabbed it to thwart souvenir hunters. Then, for reasons that still seem fuzzy even to him, he said he entered the hospital and placed it next to Kennedy on the president’s stretcher, assuming it could somehow help doctors figure out what happened. At some point, he now guesses, the stretchers must have been pushed together, and the bullet was shaken from one to another.
"'There was nobody there to secure the scene, and that was a big, big bother to me,' Landis said. 'All the agents that were there were focused on the president.' A crowd was gathering. 'This was all going on so quickly. And I was just afraid that — it was a piece of evidence, that I realized right away. Very important. And I didn’t want it to disappear or get lost. So it was, ‘Paul, you’ve got to make a decision,’ and I grabbed it.’
"Landis theorizes that the bullet struck Kennedy in the back but for some reason was undercharged and did not penetrate deeply, therefore popping back out before the president’s body was removed from the limousine."
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"In recent years, [Landis] confided his story with several key figures, including Lewis Merletti, a former director of the Secret Service. James Robenalt, a Cleveland lawyer and author of several books of history, has deeply researched the assassination and helped Landis process his memories.
"If what he says is true, which I tend to believe, it is likely to reopen the question of a second shooter, if not even more,' Robenalt said. 'If the bullet we know as the magic or pristine bullet stopped in President Kennedy’s back, it means that the central thesis of the Warren Report, the single-bullet theory, is wrong.' And if Connally was hit by a separate bullet, he added, then it seemed possible it was not from Oswald, who he argued could not have reloaded that fast."
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Another contradiction is regarding the declaration of death.
"The Warren Commission report said that it 'eliminated President Kennedy’s stretcher as a source of the bullet' because the president remained on his stretcher while doctors tried to save his life and was not removed until his body was placed in a coffin."
If Landis's account is accurate, the President had long been dead before any doctor ever set a hand on him.
"[Landis] said he heard a second shot that sounded louder and finally the fatal third shot that hit Kennedy in the head. Landis had to duck to avoid being splattered by flesh and brain matter. He knew instantly that the president was dead. ['his partner, Clint Hill, the legendary Secret Service agent who clambered onto the back of the speeding limousine in a futile effort to save Kennedy'], now on the back of the limousine, turned back and confirmed it with a thumbs-down."
Hill had already unofficially confirmed that Kennedy was dead.
Conveniently, Hill later encouraged Landis to keep his mouth shut about what Landis alleges to have seen and did, and is now disparaging Landis's accounts.
"Indeed, his partner, Clint Hill, the legendary Secret Service agent who clambered onto the back of the speeding limousine in a futile effort to save Kennedy, discouraged Landis from speaking out. 'Many ramifications,' Hill warned in a 2014 email that Landis saved and shared last month.
"Hill, who has set out his own account of what happened in multiple books and interviews, cast doubt on Landis’ version Friday. 'I believe it raises concerns when the story he is telling now, 60 years after the fact, is different than the statements he wrote in the days following the tragedy' and told in subsequent years, Hill said in an email. 'In my mind, there are serious inconsistencies in his various statements/stories.'"
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Note to Self: At least there will be another book available to prop-up the frail legs and convoluted circumstances surrounding one of the bigger corrupt acts by American Mafia - the Monolith State - in American history.
But, "no goal"? Of course there's a goal, to relieve his guilty conscience.
"'There’s no goal at this point,' he said in an interview last month in Cleveland, the first time he has talked about this with a reporter in advance of his book, 'The Final Witness,' which will be published by Chicago Review Press on Oct. 10. 'I just think it had been long enough that I needed to tell my story.'"
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"The Final [Bullet]."
- Matfucius
https://www.yahoo.com/news/jfk-assassination-witness-breaks-silence-142858952.html