Paul Landis, now a Greater Clevelander, claims he found the 'magic bullet' in the back of the limousine that the Warren Commission said wounded Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally.
In this picture taken Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, seen through the foreground convertible's windshield, reaches toward his head within seconds of being fatally shot as first lady Jacqueline Kennedy holds his forearm as the motorcade proceeds along Elm Street past the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. Gov. John Connally was also shot. Paul Landis, now 88 and a Greater Clevelander, was part of the Secret Service detail riding on running boards on the car in the rear.
One shot missed the motorcade. The last shot hit Kennedy in the head. That meant that the remaining bullet, the “magic bullet,” would have had to injured both Kennedy and Connally for the Warren Commission’s lone gunman theory to hold.Landis, now 88, has a memoir due out in October -- “The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years,” published by Chicago Review Press. His interview last month with The Times was the first he’s given to talk about that day.
Landis told The Times he grabbed it to thwart souvenir hunters. Then, for reasons still unclear to him, he went into 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 on which Kennedy and Connally were lying must have been pushed together and the bullet was shaken from one to another.
Landis has been reluctant to speculate on the larger implications. He told The Times he always believed that Oswald was the lone gunman. And if Mr. Connally was hit by a separate bullet, he told The Times, then it seemed possible it was not from Oswald, who he argued could not have reloaded that fast.
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