Jackie Kennedy's ex-Secret Service agent makes new claim about the JFK assassination
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2023
- Paul Landis, a former Secret Service agent assigned to former first lady Jackie Kennedy, discusses claims he made in a new book that raises questions about the so-called "magic bullet" theory in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
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I was 10. I will never forget how horrible it was for my family. We were Irish Catholics and we loved him.
your last sentence doesn't make any sense .. wait, before you change it "We were Irish Catholics and we loved him."
@@schiacciatrollo Seems pretty straightforward to me. JFK was our first Irish-Catholic president
@@schiacciatrolloit seems pretty simple and straightforward to me there are Irish Catholics and so was Kennedy. They loved him because he was like them
1951-1979: Grew up in a San Francisco neighborhood 1/2Italian Americans &1/2 Irish ..all of the Catholic Church.
Every ones house had a President Kennedy's picture next to the pope!
And We All loved President Kennedy!!!!!
@@schiacciatrollowhat doesn’t make sense to you homeboy?
Maybe the government should just release everything and stop playing around.
Problem is, the possible hidden truths about the assassination are not going to be reached by popular consensus. Have you ever seen a murder case in which all the forensic info is released to the public and the public finds out who did it, how, why, and produces a legal ruling and appropriate sentence? Do you really think that more information is not going to be weaved into even wilder conspiracy theories?
Preach
piss off .. there is no time for conspiracy trades and gents like yours
They’re not hiding anything but the CIA and Cuban interest who had contact with Lee Harvey and drove him to do it. Trump uses the same tactics for his herd.
@@schiacciatrollo Now why wouldn't you want information released completely? I really don't understand the believe what you are told, no matter what crowd. This can all be cleared up by just releasing the information.
Dorothy Kilgallen. The reporter who was murdered bc she “knew too much.” She solved the case, and it wasn’t Oswald.
bullshit
That's true!
Agreed
Dorothy?
Yup.
I am glad he wrote it. So many unkind comments on social media just reflect what a sad society that we have become.
More government 🐂💩 propaganda
My third grade teacher was talking out in the hall with another teacher. She came back in in tears, got herself together and told us we just lost our President. This has affected us all! He was bringing our nation around to be a better place in peace and harmony and the hateful, lowdown, devious people that want power couldn't take it. And now, we have had hate, racism, and greed grow to a new level. God bless us, everyone!
Just think if he had finished that term, had a second (no reason to think he wouldn't), and then Bobby took over after the 68 election for 8 years... Not only would this country be such a better, loving, caring, and peaceful place, but the entire world would be.
I think quite often of the what ifs.
🙏🏿
I was sitting in third grade class when the office switched on the PA system and we all listened in shocked silence as the report came over the radio minute by minute. Most of us were shocked and didn't realize the gravity of the situation. A few days later we had an assembly and they tried to explain what just happened and how we were going to move forward as a nation.
Terrible. What might have been..
Now I detest my fellow citizens, judge them by their appearance and actions. Anyone who still supports TFG and his cult are un American and borderline fascist.
I had a very traumatizing event happen in my life over forty years ago. To this day I still suffer PTSD and I remember every word that was said, the time of day it happened, and the actions that were taken. Please don't say this man can't remember because he can. When you say his age keeps him from remembering, it's like calling every war veteran who suffers from PTSD a liar. Unless you've ever been traumatized by an unspeakable event, then you can't say people forget.
Absolutely, Any event that is highly important or traumatizing is remembered or completely blocked out.
@@rubystone6736 not true. the mind is screwed up man, it can also create false memory. you remember the event, but with different people or other incorrect details because your mind is blocking out the trauma and filling in the blanks with surrogates.
a good example of this from fiction is from the tv show "M * A * S * H *" series finale.
during the course of the finale, hawkeye is checked into a psych hospital, during his stay, he and the shrink discuss a specific incident in which hawkeye was riding on an ambulance bus at night. but each time hawkeye retells the story it's incomplete, as the psychiatrist picks at the details, the story changes, and as it changes hawkeye continues to explain the events. the first version we hear we only get the beginning, the bus is full of soldiers drunkenly celebrating and hawkeye is asking them to pass a bottle of whiskey back to them for one of the soldiers he's talking with, the bus picks up a group of korean villagers including a woman with a chicken.
in the second version we find out the truth was that the bus was filled with wounded soldiers and hawkeye was down to his last blood transfusion bottle and they were passing it from patient to patient. he was demanding the bottle of blood for the wounded soldier in the back of the bus dying of blood loss. this version then continues to tell us that the bus came upon a north korean patrol and pulled off the road to hide in the bushes, where hawkeye yelled at the villager woman because her chicken wouldn't stop clucking and was going to give their position away.
In the final version of the story, hawkeye tells us that after he yelled at the villager woman he turned to go back to the front of the bus, when he noticed the chicken had gone quiet, and he turned around to see that she had killed the chicken. Hawkeye then breaks down crying hysterically, to which the shrink asks "so, what's the big deal? it was just a chicken." to which Hawkeye screams "IT WAS A BABY! she smothered her own baby...oh god, i just wanted it to be quiet, I DIDN'T MEAN FOR HER TO *KILL IT!* ....why did you make me remember that, you son of a bitch..."
@@gourdguruI agree, but that's willful remembrance, his mind didn't go bye-bye in that moment. He willfully ejected those bad thoughts. I know, it's happened to me. Problem is, you can't will them out of existence forever...
Bah and humbug. He needs cash.
@@gourdguruBuddy, don't use a fictional TV show as proof of truth. Wow.
Grateful he’s here and able to share his account after all these years. Can’t imagine what he has gone thru much like so many alive that day to remember. I wasn’t born yet, my mom met JFK while he was campaigning in WV. She said she told him I hope your our next President. 🙏🏼
Are you kidding me. This guy is a dud. The head of the secret service was in on it as was the driver of the president's limo who took no evasive action but rather slowed the limo down at a specific point so that the shooter could deliver the kill shot to the head with an exploding bullet. Even Gerald Ford, Justice Warren, the FBI were involved in the cover up. and, of course, LBJ were involved with the cover up. And there is no doubt that LBJ and his oil buddies were involved in the coup d'etat. And Americans just take it.
Odd that Landis wasn't interviewed by The Warren Commission. At minimum, it would seem that establishing chain of custody of the bullet would have been of critical importance.
Why is it odd. The Warren Commission was established to give credence to the original lone shooter magic bullet scenario.
America is a dastardly place to live.
The Warren commission had their mind set on what happened. Read up on went down, and it will leave you shocked. One of the people involved was a former CIA member that Kennedy fired.
I've been a shooter all my life. I' ve never seen a bullet retain its shape to such as a degree after traversing so many objects.
It did go thru 2 men but it was hardly pristine. You can Google that Bullet & they have a 3D version online. It has gouges on the sides & its flattened on one side. I thought the original story was it was found on Govenor Connally's stretcher. So someone moved it from JFKs table in room # 1 ?
Screw everything else. The videos I have watched all right over the fact that he 1st found a second bullet. AND, that it was a mushroomed out fragment the size of the tip of his pinky. For some strange reason they go to the part about the pristine bullet being on the opposite gurney and whether he believes there was a second gunmen. Also, the intact bullet had striations and it was for some reason pocketed and placed on a table who cares if it was a gurney and if it was moved, oooooh. What is more important that is how they definitely placed Oswald there and in the "snipers nest" and being the shooter. But, again how the heck does the second bullet get waved over like a magic wand, nothing to see here, these are not the droids you are looking for, ITS A SECOND BULLET ! THAT BLOWS THE MAGIC BLAH BLAH BLAH OUT THE WATER ! OH, AND SIMULTANEOUSLY BLOWS OUT THE LONE GUNMAN TOO ! WTF !!!
James Files who was the actual Grassy Knoll shooter will be back at the Grassy Knoll this fall in 2023:
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@@ronmexico1392 It all comes down to Ballistics & what the autopsy found. Few people have the patience or the ability to see that truth. There is too much noise out there to distract your attention away from what really matters. This Bullet being put by JFK's feet doesn't change Ballistics. Or what 3 Pathologists found working 8 hours on the autopsy. What happened to this agent is sad. Does not change the 2 key elements in the assassination.
@@ag4allgood👏🏼👏🏼
What a humble man. I hope that writing this book helped him process this long held trauma.
If you believe he had trauma
The 'humble man' who openly admits to tampering with key evidence at the scene of perhaps the most significant political assassination in modern history. I hope that writing this book has him prosecuted and thrown into jail for the remainder of his life if there is any truth to his admissions. Humble man my ass.
You know what would have helped him process? Speaking up and telling the truth. Usually helps.
@@wentzr Exactly right, very well said there.
Why couldn’t he just write a letter to a newspaper and have them publish it so we could all read it for free?
This man cares so much about what happened that he took it to heart. It affected his level of confidence, he felt personally responsible; most likely through PTSD went on to imposter syndrome, when he was maintaining his composure for those six months he mentioned. The strain was too much with the instant replays he left the service. He was very young, these things stay with you at that age.
He cares so much that he kept his mouth shut for 60 years even after he watched a scapegoat murdered in cold blood. If that's what caring looks like than I can't imagine what he would have done if he hated JFK... This is less about him caring and more about him making some money for him and his family before he dies.
@@PAproI saw a missing poster in the milk aisle earlier. Can you confirm that this is you? ➡️ 🔨
@@Anton2046gfkn Since when did they put posters in the actual aisle? You mean a missing person photo on a milk carton? Also, they stopped putting them on the cartons back in the 80's... if you are going to try being a smart @$$ at least be smart about it ! Take your old @$$ to bed.
That’s why they stole jfks corpse out of the parkland hospital and threatened a doctor with a gun who wanted to autopsying jfk, yeah the secret service was totally not to blame for
Are you guys really this gullible?.. He’s so full of it..
If you think a bullet traveling at 2300 feet per second is just gonna lodge a couple inches into a human target about 200 feet away?.. Then fall out into the back seat for Agent Landis to find, plant, and keep secret about for 60 years (until he’s selling a book)?… Then you’re a fool..
Besides, there’s no other hole it coulda exited from other than the throat, and those fragments in Connally’s wrist came from that bullet.. All of which SHOULD ALSO tell you how full of shut Landis is..
Oh, but it’s canon, now, right?.. lol.. Wake up, people, or come join me at the pool hall if you refuse..
''Do you think there was only one shooter?'' - ''I did. but I heard shots from the overpass''..... The interviewer ignores this.
Two shooters caught the Presidents in a crossfire from the overpass and grassy knoll. When the car turned left on its final drive towards the overpass, it presented a slow moving frontal target facing the over pass enabling the two shooters. Last radio transmission read "Dallas Trade Mart-Two minutes"
@@DonMarquez-wj7ir Yes, I know - that was my point
Such a tragic day; what a very humble man. Thank you, Sir!!!
Quote "on the news watching the presidents head exploding" they wanted to showcase their power and spread fear. 🤯
That was the day democracy died, and Plutocracy was born in the USA. And thats why the entire world wept.
Sadly, we have become used to shootings. Not so when JFK was killed; the Nation (World) were horrified, shocked and incredibly sad. Things (politicians )haven't improved & America isn't better today.
@@elizabethcimino6559 Right, and we were led to believe it was a lone, crazy, "gunman" when it really was just a hired stooged, by the CIA, to carry out the gov't's plot.
Nobody with any sense of history could hold that belief.
You are many decades too late, that happened prior to 1900.
I always thought it was our reaction to it that killed the dream.. How we became cynical and conspiratorial in our thinking, when there’s absolutely zero direct evidence of anyone other than Oswald being involved?..
What did Jagger say?.. “I shouted out who killed the Kennedy’s, when after all it was you and me”..
You better believe it..
My thanks to Paul Landis for the work he did. It must have been incredibly stressful. Even now you can see it has left long term impacts on him. I hope writing his memories has helped him to find inner peace.
You thank a member of the President Kennedy's Secret Service security detail for an act of blatant tampering with a key item of evidence. He belongs in jail.
So he waits sixty years later to explain to us about how that pristine bullet wound up on the stretcher🎉. Gotta buy his book, you just haftah!
I am writing this from memory, without referring to any books on the assassination. It has long been thought that the pristine bullet either worked its way out of the president's back when the doctors in the trauma room were trying to save the president's life, or else it was placed on the stretcher by somebody (which led to theories that the bullet was planted in order to frame Oswald). My recollection is that witnesses said it was found on Kennedy's stretcher and not Connally's stretcher, which has always been one of the difficulties with the single bullet theory, the other being, of course, that a nearly pristine bullet could not have done all that damage to two bodies. One of the doctors at Parkland Hospital probed with his finger the wound in Kennedy's back and found it to be only three inches deep, which suggests that the bullet struck him at a low velocity. If I recall correctly, this was a not uncommon defect with a Mannlicher Carcano rifle. Given the Secret Service agent's account of where he found the bullet, this all makes sense. And it is consistent with the long standing criticism that Kennedy's throat wound could not have been caused by the same bullet that entered his back because: (1) the throat wound was several inches higher than the back wound; (2) the president was sitting upright when he was struck in the throat as the Zapruder film clearly shows; and (3) the back wound was not a through wound. The conclusion is almost inescapable that the throat wound was caused by a bullet fired from the front. Its dimensions have never been described because it was obliterated by the tracheotomy, so it was never identified as an entrance wound or an exit wound. This leaves us with five bullets: one that missed the limousine altogether, one that struck Kennedy in the back, one that struck Kennedy in the throat, one that did all the damage to Connally, and one that hit Kennedy in the head. Some of the witnesses said they heard three shots, others said they heard four or five. Given the rapid sequence of the shots, the echoes in Dealey Plaza, and the differing locations of the witnesses, it is no wonder that accounts differ. In defense of the Secret Service agent, he was wise to protect the evidence without turning it over to the Dallas police. Granted, it would have been better if the bullet could have remained where it was found until the car was photographed as a crime scene, but it was not in his power to make that happen. His concern about souvenir hunters was not unreasonable. If he is telling the truth, I thank him for coming forward. -- Richard Hayes Phillips
Thank you.
So how close were souvenir hunters likely to get to the president after he'd just been shot - that excuse can be dismissed outright - Considering he was well aware of what would happen if said anything he simply kept quite
I have read Mark lanes book " Plausible Denial " front to back and a book I think he wrote about the Bay Of Pigs and know about E Howard Hunt who was the architect of it all you realise how grubby the world of politics is
Excellent analysis!
In fact, the back wound was a "through wound." The autopsy doctors traced the bullet's path over the top of the scapula and lung and through the lower throat, damaging the trachea and exciting at the front collar of the neck. The front collar of JFK's shirt had two overlapping holes when buttoned, with shirt fibers pointing out, away from the body, further confirming that the throat wound was an exit wound. A decade later, the HSCA again confirmed this bullet's path.
I likely don't need to add that this bullet went on to hit Gov Connally in the lower back, causing all of his wounds, and later was ballistically traced to Oswald's rifle found on the sixth floor of the TSBD.
Greer.........
I'm sorry you had to witness that hateful, horrible event. I'm sorry that it affected you and made you feel like you might fail in the secret service! You are an honorable man, I wish peace for you.
The guy is a con artist.. He knows very well bullets traveling at 2200 feet per second aren’t gonna just lodge a couple inches into the back of a human target 70 yards away?!..
That’s an old theory from the conspiracy side that’s utterly ridiculous, and he’s using that angle to sell his book..
Free danelo
It wasn't all about hate. Joe Kennedy had made alot of promises to people to get John elected. ...including organized crime. None were honored. John and Robert were hated by Lyndon Johnson who also had a list of deaths associated with his rise in politics similar to the Clintons
Give me a break, He didn't get shot. And he is a liar coming out decades later to sell a book. CNN selling books as usual. Don't be a drone. 🎬
NO ! He is not honorable !! He says he took the most important evidence they had and dropped it on a hospital operating table secretly !!! What better time could there ever be ?? That's a moron !! Where was his training done, Denny's ?? Total BS. The old fool wants money from a book ! He is saying he never told his superiors or the investigators he did this ? I'm glad the fool quit or more likely fired because they found out what he did and hushed it up so not to look like jerks because of it.
The news of the death of Kennedy quickly made its way into Canada. Our 4th grade teacher left the room briefly, only to come back in tears...she gave us the news. Kennedy was very well respected in Canada. The school that I attended in grade 5 was named after him. RIP.
I am grateful every day that our two great nations are such cordial neighbors. I am touched that other nations have embraced our fallen president. I attended the second-to-last concert of The Tragically Hip in Toronto in 2016. I spied a man with a t-shirt with 11-22-63 on it, and I asked him why. He explained that it was from the miniseries by Stephen King, which I had not heard of. (I went on to read the book.) I am honored to share our fallen president with the rest of the world and flattered on his behalf. Such world-wide reverence for him helps his legacy to endure.
So sad 😔 the people responsible will never be held accountable never
How dare the CIA not release the files - they should be charged too 🤦 crimes against humanity
They don't want to release it because they know that they hired this guy to kill a non-racist president and then they won't be trusted anymore and a lot of people will possibly sue them
Why would you wait 60 years to tell this story
Why are almost 5,000 government docs in the case _still_ being withheld?
The fear of being unalived and the freedom of information act is the reason. 60 years they have to release some truth.
@@mulemulebecause we the people of the United States want to live and not be martyred. That's why
So many of the witnesses whose testimony contradicted the Warren Commission's findings died suspiciously in the few years following the assassination.
I don't see why he wouldn't have handed it over to one of the investigators on the scene, or reported the find immediately. Pulling it out of his pocket and leaving it in a random location without any information is beyond irresponsible for someone in his position.
Yes, it was an immensely traumatic event, but dealing with that sort of situation professionally is the very definition of the responsibilities on a Secret Service agent occupying his position.
He gives relevant to terms Secret Service
Yup, something really bizarre about this. Almost as if he planned to hold onto it as a souvenir and then changed his mind. In those days, cops took home all kinds of grisly mementos. It was commonplace.
I agree that it sounds odd. And I'm not buying the "traumatized" excuse, which seems like a projection of 21st century sensibilities on a generation of men who'd seen far worse in WW2 or Korea.
@@daveconleyportfolio5192Trauma didn’t work any differently 60 years ago 😂. People just became mean drunks and buried it instead of talking about it.
If you look at how some prey acts after being hunted and going catatonic to make the predator uninterested, it’s weird af. Once they are safe they twitch and wiggle and collapse as their brain sends all the scary danger signals it had on pause to keep them still and alive. Then they process it and go on.
Same shit happens with humans. Unless you don’t process it, anyways.
@@daveconleyportfolio5192 ANOTHER wannabe, DEEP THROAT... SMH 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦
Although, this happened b4 d.t.
I remember that day in 1963. A shocking and sad day as a child. I believe him. I don't think he is making anything up. He just wanted his part in the events in Dallas to be told. I hope telling his story helps him, in the remaining years of his life. Probably a very good man.
One of the doctors 😮received threats it was very scary back then maybe why he kept quiet 🔇 smh
I have read everything I could about JFK's murder and that intact bullet was seen by 2 physicians- I read the entire Warren Commission Report and saw many questionable issues
@@tinaanderson200Haha
Thank you for sharing.
Why would an agent leave an important piece of evidence in that way!?
Do they not call that tampering with evidence
That was 1963 and the man was suffering the trauma of just having witnessed the man he was there to protect get murdered.
@@waltersmith7742 Yes, that is tampering with evidence. I don't know while he was at it he should have gotten out his Windex and cleaned up the car a little.
If JFK hadn't been killed, this World would be a different place.
RIP Jack and Jackie.
Democrats don’t do anything as President, nothing would be different
It would of been , but they were all corrupt.
@@job1778IF JFK WAS ALIVE TODAY AT HIS AGE NOW HE BE REPUBLICAN
@@u.s.m.c.fewproudthemarines2987 Ha! Right. A Republican Kennedy. Give me a break. Quit typing in all caps too, all cappy-slap happy pappy.
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No way. He was way smarter than that.
I remember one of the attending drs at Parkland years ago talking about lifting the body and a bullet fell on the gurney. Until now, I've never heard anyone mention this.
PTSD has haunted this poor man for 60 years. May he find ssome personal peace at having shared his memories.
I find it hard to believe that a Secret Service Agent would disturb a crime scene in such a way. Picking up a bullet and placing it somewhere else is absurdly unprofessional.
That was the 1960's
I was thinking the same but the guy was in his 20s so he just did a stupid thing.
@@sdpofjcoismzfljj couldn't trust govt agencies in the 60s and nothing has changed in fact its gotten worse. All of our government agencies, fbi, doj, Cia etc. are full of corruption and politically motivated it's sickening.
Knowing what you should do and what happens when an assassination takes place in front of you are two different things.
Secret Service have always been gestapo magats who think that they are untouchable. They are still covering up for drumpf and nobody is doing anything about it.
I remember this happened when I was at school in the 1st grade. We were sent home. I remember my mother crying when I got there. Very tragic time in our nation. Kennedy was a great president and should set an example how our current politicians should act.
John Kennedy would make a very conservative republican now. The Democrat party has destroyed america with debt, unnecessary wars, and inflated economy.
I was in 2nd grade. They sent the kids in every grade , 1 thru 6 home. Very similar story but my parents both worked & it was my grand mother crying watching Walter Cronkite in the basement when I got home. My memory was etched from that time. Always wanted to find out what happened. Read many books / saw all the documentaries. Still the many questions were unanswered. Then there was an under the Radar documentary I watched on DVD - JFK The Smoking Gun. It had me writing down facts / evidence / stopping & restarting because they were coming so fast. A detective goes to Dealey Plaza & does a cold case on the JFK assassination. I guarantee it will have answers to many questions you thought would NEVER be answered. I had 2 pages of notes written down after watching it. You will understand why 60 years later the Government refuses to release all documents on this event ! I guarantee it.
He left the bullet on the table and didn’t say anything?
Being traumatized is understandable, but he absolutely failed to react professionally and WAS an embarrassment to the Secret Service.
I was in 4th grade and doubted that Lee Harvey did it alone - great guy JFK - ask Brigade 2506 - and the comedy he played with that Marilyn Monroe - if not for Khrushchev none of us would be around today. Yeah, great guy.
This may sound foolish, but I remember this coming on the black and white TV. Both my Mom and my Dad wanted to take time off work and go to the funeral. I remember them both crying.
Poor guy, I cannot imagine witnessing anyone’s head explode let alone not being shell shocked over it forever. 😓
Incredible that he said he was never interviewed, he seems to be a closed part of the investigation taking mayor part of what happened that day.
I was between classes at college and could not believe that this had happened in my country. I just did not seem possible. I have read other theories about who assassinated JFK. After all these years questions still have not been totally answered. I’m glad this gentleman published his book. Memories of such events live forever.
Wow. What do you remover the most about the late 60’s? What city were you in in the 70’s?
I was a teenager then and home sick from school and watched it all on tv. I've read so many books over the decades and every 20 years they find out something more. I've worked for the govt., and my husband was USSS. I can say I doubt we will ever, ever know the story. No one seems to want the public everything.
There had been three previous presidents assassinated (Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley), but you couldn’t believe this was happening in your country?
What are you like 80? Hats off to you sir or madam!
I was in 2nd grade when this event happened. It led me to read so many books / see so many documentaries to find out what happened. If there is one recommendation for you that has answered my questions - get a DVD version of JFK The Smoking Gun. A detective does a cold case on this event going to Dealey Plaza. He reviews what the witnesses said on that day. What people did in response. Uncovers the evidence that will point to what is the most likely sequence based on everything he finds. An awesome display of the ability to see things many do not want to see.
They sure did handle things differently back then! I couldn't even imagine a secret service agent handling evidence in that way today. Crazy
@lawnchair4474The secret service is a tool in the hands of the nefarious few who are the richest and the most powerful group that writes the destiny of America, all the time.
I’m not buying it. Too many red flags.
Yeah you're not supposed to move evidence around, I thought
True today. A lot of reforms came out of this incident and others in that era. Forensic science was not a fully developed field, and many court decisions from around that era rewrote the book on a lot of police procedures. Since his job was to protect the first lady, no way should he have been collecting evidence at the scene, but no one was designated for that role. They could not even agree on who' investigation it was. Secret Service illegally removed the body from the jurisdiction against the Medical Examiner's authority. It was the state's crime to investigate and prosecute. I don't think crime scene tape had been invented yet. Those agents may not have even been trained on forensic procedures.@@-roejogan- There is still a shocking amount of ignorance among police administrators today, the kind who play politics to get the white shirt and plastic shoes without ever having trained on forensics or other special fields. I witnessed a swat shooting once, and the new swat commander called all of the perimeter and entry units up to the scene in the dark, had them all standing on top of blood and body parts to conduct his post op briefing. Once a Captain ordered me to attend a briefing with SS in which I would be informed of motorcade route and secondary emergency evacuation routes, on of which I would escort. The captain wanted me to return to other duties while awaiting the arrival. I informed the lead agent of this, acknowledging the idiocy and requesting what to tell the Captain. He said tell the Captain that if you leave this room with the information you have received, I will personally shoot you in the back on the way out the door. I was pleased immensely with that answer. So you see, even today it does not always go smoothly with the local yokels interacting with SS.
The Warren commission & every documentary and investigation ever since has highlighted what a "Keystone Cops" mess it was that day. The secret service went drinking until the early hours before the shooting . What a tragic farce 😔.
Why wouldn’t you preserve the crime scene?
Egocentric humans ☕
But why would u put the bullet on the stretcher instead of bagging it for evidence. Weird
Who's "u"? The surgeon? The cops?
Was he confused and disorientated from being one of the agents out drinking all night ? Whatever the reason he kept quiet - it saved his life when so many were soon dead for far less..
@@kerrylangman214 I thought the same thing. Still, as a former police officer, I learned about the chain of custody. I'm 60 years old now, I was born exactly 2 months before JFK was killed. It boggles my mind that a SS agent, a highly trained law enforcement officer, didn't keep the bullet and the chain of custody. Not hating the man for doing it, he might have had his reasons. And like you said, thinking about it now, maybe we wouldn't have a Paul Landis today, telling the story.
@@sclogse1 "u" is Paul Landis, the secret service agent.
It looks to me like the first shot came came from behind, and the last shot came from in front
Was really a sad day, I feel you pain sir!
He's basically saying there's something fishy. He was there snd he saw what happened. Thank you sir for your service.
Something fishy ? The Secret Service that day let JFK down partying till the early hours of the morning. Not every agent but 85% of them did. So bad they put a agent who normally was in charge of the Limos in the sniper role following in the car behind JFK. What could possibly go wrong ?
Crenshaw is a total where. See what the other doctors say.
They're not supposed to remove evidence from the scene like that. What a botched investigation. 😢
I wonder whatever happened to The History Channel's documentary that aired around 1998/99 on the assassination. I would love to see it again.
Bill Curtiss and that documentary was discredited years ago. I watched it too.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
@@williamhiles7404 , okay, I wondered how factual it was.
Boy, this guy came forward quickly, didn't he?! LOL
His kids told him how expensive college is for his grand-kids. Suddenly he has relevant data, for $19.95 in bookstores everywhere!
Agree
Almost 60 years ago and we still don't have the answers. All reports haven't been released as promised at the 50th anniversary.
We really do have all the answers. People just like to make money off of... well, the people who keep insisting "we don't have all the answers" because as humans it's difficult to accept the truth of the matter.
@@davemccombs you're being overly naive. Wake up and smell the roses. Why haven't the sealed records been released as promised? Answer that question with a logical explanation.
*Ex-Secret Service agent makes new claim about the JFK assassination: The US government killed JFK in broad-daylight, and will try to do the same thing again with Trump*
*-There, I fixed it.*
I thought it was supposed to be 75 years
@@Justanoldrunner no it was fifty years after his death. 11-23-1963 and I remember where I was when it happened.
I want to know WHY so any people were allowed in the trauma room.
Believe what you are told, not your eyes.
There's no way he wouldn't have told his supervisor he found the bullet and where. Just dropped it on the gurney by his feet? Hoping someone would see it instead of handing it over to his supervisor/investigator? Sounds more like that thought of a souvenir was his at first, then got cold feet in the room and ditched it.
exactly....was not honest THEN about what he did and is not being honest now.....was always afraid to say anything about what he really did for fear of getting in trouble and is still being dishonest about the reason he originally took the bullet from the car which is that he thought he could get rich from his souvenir
I was 6 yrs old and I will never forget how shocked and sad people were. My impression at that age was that people loved him. That was a horrible, tragic day.
The killing of Kennedy was profound, like you , I was 6 when it happened. I dame downstairs to my mother crying her eyes out, my dad comforting her. Difference is,we lived in a town just outside Glasgow in Scotland. That is the effect it had. I will never forger that. Ever.
I was 6 also in first grade. The teachers all brought the old audio visual gadgets in each classroom and they received live analog television. We watched a bit of Walter Cronkite, when they said he passed they let us all go home early and they lowered the flag half mass. School was cancelled for the next day. It's a day that we were kids back then and will always remember that day and our where about.
I read about this a long time ago. He told a neighbor/friend, and I read an interview of that person.
Could barely hear the older agent
Bizarre. He concealed evidence.
Why would this Guy tamper with evidence?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
If he didn’t pick it up and didn’t say something about it, we would probably never known it. I’m tired of the haters. I know trolls will always be happening. Have nothing else better to do with your time.
That bullet was evidence and should have been processed as such from the beginning.
Poor man still suffers ptsd from this event, you can see it in his eyes. 😢
I’m glad this gentleman published his book. Memories of such events live forever.
Memories do not live forever: they change constantly, which is why his book is less plausible than what he would have said at the time (had he been asked).
Hopefully one day we will get the right answer on this issue
@judesansone5507. Don’t count on it.
What ever happened to journalists 'asking' questions, instead of framing the answers they want, and then inviting confirmation, and possibly reframing parts of the answer that don't conform sufficiently to the narrative they want supported?
My heart breaks for him...to feel he would have been an embarrassment for being human after experiencing such horror and trauma.
All the reptiles look the same. He looks like Joey B.
@@BLOXKAFELLARECORDS I wish I knew what you mean by your comment...
@@aimeerice4687 No you don't.
A truly cataclysmic event in everyone‘s life ! I remember it as a child and it still fascinates and horrifies me even today. We will never know the whole truth of what happened..🤮🤮🤮
@@Dave-xd3wx And you know this how?
“Almost immediately after the second shot there was a third report.”
Hmmm…
“The third shot-we were so close to the overpass it sounded like the sound was there-or came from that direction. But it was later when I learned that there had been the three cartridge cases found in the school book depository and everything was kind of associated with Oswald at that point.”
Hmmm…
This event affected so many people around the world but heavily in the United States I can imagine on that fateful November day in 1963. My mother spoke about it once, of how sad that day was. To have been there, and witnessed that must have been unimaginable. I remember how much the sudden death of Princess Diana affected everyone at home. It was so hard to come to terms with.
Our whole school watched the TV News Feed that day.
I have never believed the lone gunman theory. He wanted civil rights, end to the war, ect. There were many many higher ups who disagreed with his entire ideology. We will probably never know the truth.
We know the truth. The evidence is beyond dispute. For people who enjoy colorful conspiracy theories, however, this is a great opportunity.
Kennedy was a handsome young man and he was committed to civil rights and stopping the war. Some people will never be satisfied, no matter how much evidence is presented.
The truth seems to leak out drip by drip.
yeah. Its almost obvious that the "deep state" murdered him but as long as there is doubt the culprits get away with it... Very orwellian and dystopian.
CIA def involved, along with other individuals who wanted JFK dead - imo
All the theories out there such as FBI, CIA, Feds, LBJ etc is correct, but they involve all of the above
Thank you for your service, and for attempting to be more transparent for those of us who need it!
I find it hard to believe that a trained secret service agent would not hand the evidence over to higher authorities. Leaving it on the gurney was just a bad as leaving it in the car.
Remember it well. Never to be forgotten .
This is a moment you’ll never forget.
His story seems to not make sense.
Why would you take what you saw as “important evidence” and just place it on a gurney without saying anything?
Wouldn’t you collect it, log it, and make its presence know to investigators?
Have we not seen cop shows?
I remember it quite well. We were traveling to Florida to visit my grandmother. We'd stopped at a gas station and the attendant had a radio going, and we heard it over the radio. It was a big shock.
To JFK's killers that day, there were alot of magic bullets flying around. As for Mr. Landis, senility can hit hard. Do not wait until your 82 to write a book about your experiences in your twenties.
but it was Roosevelt, who saw what was coming, and wanted to pass the "Second Bill of Rights." To guarantee every American: Employment, An adequate income for food, shelter, and recreation, Farmers' rights to a fair income, Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies, Decent housing, Adequate medical care, Social security, and Education. He said "It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people-whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth-is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure." and it is essentially 50%, more than Roosevelt could possibly imagine.
How fast we are going down the drain. I fear & dread for the future of our country. I do not welcome entering the autumn years of my life. This certainly isn’t what I had envisioned as a twenty something looking into the future of my once beloved country. Now I fear a potential Civil War. Where have we gone so wrong.
You talking about Roosevelt Grier, or Roosevelt Booser, certainly not Eleanor, because Frankie was dead and burried.
Texas seems to have quite a few strange and questionable violent events doesn't it?!
Too many, imho
Watching from Belize central america I'm from and i agree totally !!
Anyone with good sense knows Oswald didnt kill Kennedy.
He said the the third shot was immediately after the second. Couldn’t have been from the same gun
Thank you for this timely information. Glad you spoke up so quickly.
I just remember my Mother weeping, not just crying, but weeping. I was only like 5
My father, that I thought was Superman was crying like a baby, I cried right along with him, not knowing the magnitude of what happened. I was five years old as well.😢
I remembered cries that day when i got older n seen Zupruder film for first time i was angry
Me too. I don't remember her ever crying before that, but she was devastated.
I was a bit older like 1st grade at school. It was such a shock and all the teachers were crying and we were told a little later. It was like the world stopped. Besides all the crying it became very quiet. Well, there was no way most of the teachers could work after that. We had an extra long recess period. The playground was quieter too. We talked and cried too. It took us all about a week to get back to normal and start learning again..
In the Line of Fire.
Why would he wait 60 years to come forward with this.?
Wait, wait, wait. He's been sitting on this information for 60 years? He's never shared this with anyone? The Warren Commission? The House Select Committee on Assassinations? And now he comes out with this today (when there are no longer survivors to refute him), when he's around 90 years old? Really? Really? With all due respect to this guy ... I'm taking this all with a very, very large dose of salt. This simply doesn't pass the smell test.
He's realized he can sell a book... his grandkids are going to need college money.
Anyone who still believes Oswald killed JFK by himself from the 6th floor school depository, firing 3 shots, one which missed so only 2 shots from a bolt action rifle which is very inaccurate, while the target was moving away from him, with trees in his way that caused 7 bullet holes in JFKs and Governor Connelly body including a headshot which clearly came from the front of JFK....is an ignorant idiot!
People just dont know the facts of what happened that day and dont care enough to research it. Watch the movie JFK. Oliver stone does a great job of laying out all of the facts.
Witnesses were killed, oswald was conveniently killed by jack ruby who was tied to the people who killed JFK. Oh and RFK just happened to be murdered soon after! All coincidences of course.
People are so ignorant. They all say they dont trust the government yet believe what the government tells them. 💯
He could be lying about where he found it to justify why he had a bullet in his pocket the day President Kennedy was assassinated
Wasn’t preservation of a crime scene a thing then? Why would he pick up a bloody bullet and put it in his pocket and then lay it somewhere else?
@@ThisGuy76 More likely his great-grand kids. But yeah.
I really hope he makes a lot of money off this book. I don’t think it will have any new information other than his personal connection to the event - which was traumatic.
I would easily believe over the years the government never offered him a dime in compensation for PTSD after witnessing close up the event that traumatized the whole nation.
I wish him all the love and peace possible during these later years of his life.
You're a kind soul, crystal. Totally agree!😁
Anyone who still believes Oswald killed JFK by himself from the 6th floor school depository, firing 3 shots, one which missed so only 2 shots from a bolt action rifle which is very inaccurate, while the target was moving away from him, with trees in his way that caused 7 bullet holes in JFKs and Governor Connelly body including a headshot which clearly came from the front of JFK....is an ignorant idiot!
People just dont know the facts of what happened that day and dont care enough to research it. Watch the movie JFK. Oliver stone does a great job of laying out all of the facts.
Witnesses were killed, oswald was conveniently killed by jack ruby who was tied to the people who killed JFK. Oh and RFK just happened to be murdered soon after! All coincidences of course.
People are so ignorant. They all say they dont trust the government yet believe what the government tells them. 💯
Why should he be compensated for treason? He falsified evidence.
Never lifted a finger to help anyone but the killers.
why do you have to mention money ? Everything isn't about money.
Really mizz? Tell it to GOP. & SCOTUS. Money is all it's EVER about.@@mizzury54
To not have an emotional reaction to seeing up close would almost be untrue...emotional true devotion shows of igns of dedication caring for your boss
What a horrible horrible day😢
Why was he not interviewed for there Warren Commission Report?
*for the ..... Report?
Because in 63 he thought shots came from the front & rear with multiple shooters. He wrote a statement about it.......The WC only wanted 3 shots from book deposity witness, so Landis was not called to testify.
He has changed his story 3 or 4 times now since 63
@@chriscampbell9922yeah this dude is lying about something i just saw a interview with nbc the other day he said he found that bullet lodged in the backseat behind jfk. Now he saying he found it on the seat behind mrs Kennedy. Which is it? Because those two statements lead to massively different conclusions.
He suffered - he was able to hold up until through the interview - when he said he watched what happen to the President that was tough for me - you go back to that day - .First Lady was super strong - its still sad
actually she fled America for Greece as she was terrified to stay in the US
She married the old ugly millionair for protection. She put John in boarding school in India....far far away from America. She was so traumatized.
@@Dan-xx5jq She didn't leave the country until after Bobby was assassinated in 1968, but yes, she was incredibly traumatized. I don't know how she maintained her sanity after seeing what she saw.
@@Dan-xx5jq one could not find fault in her wanting to leave the US I would think she was traumatized the rest of her life. It is amazing she was able to function in those moments .
John Kennedy Jr was never in boarding school in India.
“ Let it not be forgot; there will never be another *Camelot* ”
Admitted to messing with evidence. Wow. No wonder he waited.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Former President Truman wrote an op-es exactly one month after the assassination saying the CIA was out of hand. That's not his exact words, but he definitely criticized the CIA.
"it is obvious," Danny Jawenko
This rabbit hole only goes deeper than you think.. our own government can get twisted in cases like these pure evil...
Well..., seems like Paul Landis was barely fit for the job. The bodyguard job requires a psychopath mind, tough as hell, not one that barely holds itself out of fainting in a moment of intense crisis. Tough, he managed to make himself invisible while not collapsing, keeping himself and the Corp away from embarrassment (even if barely).
This only adds a little to the confusion. Just a weird story.
It's weird because it's PURE BS
This account just does not make sense. He is a highly skilled and trained professional agent, not an ordinary person. He was trained to function properly during a crisis. If he was concerned that no one had taken charge of the vehicle, then he could have taken charge of the vehicle, or at least see to it that another agent did so.
He should never have touched, let alone removed the critical bullet, which is incredibly important evidence in a crime scene. He should have stayed to guard the bullet in the car, until the proper forensics team arrived. He should be disciplined for interfering with a crime scene that he had an obligation to preserve.
It makes no sense to think that putting it on the table/gurney, without notifying his superiors, was the right thing to do. Having ruined the crime scene, he should have kept the bullet so that the chain of custody could be validated. Again, this was a highly skilled and trained professional agent, and he completely fell apart during the most important crisis that he would ever have to deal with.
I usually find this commentator to be reliable, and I trust him. But in this case, he should not have praised this agent (near the end of the clip). The agent had acted totally irresponsibly, and the commentator knows that, and he should have the courage and honesty to raise these issues. We have Republicans to cowardly white-wash horrible things, we do not need our trusted commentators to do so.
I realize what you're saying sounds correct, but remember this was a ridiculously traumatic event & he was in his late 20s. That's the part I find so odd, hiring guys in their mid-late 20s seems crazy. I'd think you'd rather have some people who've seen combat or have a history in policing & security... not a fresh faced kid right outta college with no real experience
@@nolongerblocked6210 You can take a bullet at any age
It also makes no sense that bullet was in perfect condition.
That car did not stay in one spot for anyone to guard over it. That car sped up and took off. And any of them could have been in the line of fire standing out there.
There's nothing magic about a bullet.
The MD's in the trauma room thought the throat wound and the head wound were fired from in front of the limo, not the book depository.
So....The government lied?
Who had seen that coming? 😂
Thank you for all you went thru and for sharing your story
My understanding is that Gov. Connelly was not sitting directly in front of Kennedy, but below and to the left?
So was the movies "The Nightmare on Elm Street " comes from?
Wait, so the US government would ever lie to us?!
Ha ha ha ha
He would have spoken earlier but, after noticing that many important witnesses were either ignored by the Warren Commission, or murdered, he decided he would wait until he was elderly and bored with life.
The man wanted to stay alive
Bored with life? How in heaven's sake can you know this?
@@elizabethcimino6559 Why else would he place himself in such danger?
So sad for all!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I am a retired Metro Detroit Police Officer. My career started in 1975. What this former agent is claiming is absurd, unless he acted in "planting" evidence. Bullet was not intact, the bullet has rifling impressions, lands and groove striations, indicating the bullet had been fired. His claim he held the bullet to keep from others taking the bullet is non-sense. ANy Law Enforcement Officer, LEO, would tell a colleague or a supervisor of him finding such a piece of evidence. A LEO would have secured the area and secured the location where the bullet was found until he was relieved by a senior agent of an evidence technician. Yes, this is 1963, and protocol has changed over the years, but simple protocol of securing the area and the piece of evidence is age old police work.
The misfortune of seeing something that you just can't unsee. Once the image is imprinted in your brain, it's there to stay. He'll take that with him to the end, and he's just one of the many who suffer with images that don't go away. The haunting feeling of it is the most unrelenting thing you can imagine. He was able to make it this far, maybe soon he can lay those images to rest.
Jackie had to live with that..I can't imagine...ugh poor woman.😢
As a secret service agent, holding evidence to a crime, you would move the evidence up the chain of command, not just place it on a table, sounds like he was in on the lie
Seems a bit weird. I’m suspicious of his story.
@@RichRobinson Yep!