JFK assassination witness makes shocking claim, upending ‘lone gunman’ theory

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assassination of President John F. Kennedy, casting doubt on the Warren Commission’s single-bullet theory.Paul Landis, who witnessed the assassination and long believed Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he killed Kennedy, says he’s beginning to have his doubts about the one-shooter theory.“I’m beginning to doubt myself,” Landis told The New York Times.

“Now, I begin to wonder.”This newfound skepticism, he told the outlet, comes from discrepancies between his own experience on the day of the 1963 slaying in Dallas, Texas, and what was found by the Warren Commission.The Warren Commission, ordered by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, determined that a bullet struck Kennedy from behind before exiting through his throat and continuing forward, hitting Texas Gov.

John Connally in the back, thigh, chest and wrist.However, Landis now says he moved evidence and put one of the bullets believed to have killed Kennedy in his pocket before placing it on the president’s hospital gurney.Landis said he found the bullet at the time of the crime, stuck in the seat behind where Kennedy was sitting when the Lincoln Continental convertible arrived at hospital.“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 told the Times.Landis said he was worried someone might try to take the bullet as a souvenir, so he pocketed it and laid it next to the president on his stretcher, hoping it would help doctors determine what happened.Now, Landis, who was travelling in a vehicle behind Kennedy that fateful day, says he thinks the bullet may have fallen out of Kennedy’s back as