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Movies Ex-Secret Service Agent Reveals NEW JFK Assassination Detail About The 'Magic Bullet'

House of John F Kennedys’ Ancestors Discovered in Limerick

T
he Limerick home of President John F. Kennedy's Irish ancestors has been inadvertently discovered by council workers clearing undergrowth to make space for a new pathway.

Did you know that the "F" in John F. Kennedy's name comes from Bruff in County Limerick?

Irish Central, 20 NOV 2020.





Kennedy has strong Irish ancestry through ancestors from Wexford and Limerick.


The ruins, which date back to the 1820s, were uncovered outside the Limerick town of Bruff; a town that produced three of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's grandparents.

The farmhouse was formerly the residence of Mary Lenihan - one of JFK's great-great-grandmothers - who moved out of the cottage in 1828 to marry her neighbor Edmund Fitzgerald. She gave birth to her daughter Mary - Rose Fitzgerald's paternal grandmother - in 1832 but is thought to have died shortly afterward.

The ruined cottage, located on Palatine Road outside Bruff, had been hidden by trees and bushes for decades, while trees were observed to be growing through the cottage's floors.

Jean Kennedy Smith and Caroline Kennedy both visited the suspected site of the Fitzgerald family homestead in the past, but the recent discovery marks the first physical evidence of the surviving ruins, according to the Irish Independent.









Home of John F Kennedy's great-great grandmother discovered in undergrowth in County Limerick


While John F. Kennedy's Irish ancestry is often linked to the Wexford town of New Ross after his great-grandfather Patrick Kennedy left the town during the Famine, it is the Limerick Town of Bruff that provides the "F" in Kennedy's name.

Thomas Fitzgerald, JFK's maternal great-grandfather, emigrated from Bruff to Boston in 1852, laying the seeds for one of the most politically powerful families in American history.

In 2019, the town of Bruff unveiled a statue of Kennedy holding his great-grandfather's bible outside the Thomas Fitzgerald Centre in the town.





Local historian Declan Hehir traced the origins of the ruins back to John F. Kennedy by checking 19th-century land registries.

Hehir told the Irish Independent that he had to look up Limerick Tithe Applotments from Bruff Civil Parish in 1833 to discover that the Lenihan family lived in the house.

Realizing that Mary Lenihan had married Edmund Fitzgerald, Hehir put two and two together to trace the homestead back to the famous Irish-American president.

Meanwhile, Mark Nagle, the Chairman of the Cruff Community Council, noted the irony of the discovery at a time when America had just elected another Irish-American president.

"It's ironic that the time the house is uncovered coincides with a week when the whole of Ireland is transfixed by the election in the US and a win for another Irish-American whose ancestors left just after the Famine as well," he told the Irish Independent.


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Joe Kennedy: Don’t Release My Grandfather RFK’s Killer

Joseph Kennedy III issued a statement on Wednesday, just days after 77-year-old Sirhan Sirhan was granted parole, protesting against the California Parole Board's decision.


Irish Central 8 SEP 2021.






Former Congressman Joseph Kennedy III has issued a statement protesting against the release of Sirhan Sirhan, who murdered his grandfather Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.


Joseph Kennedy III issued a statement on Wednesday, just days after 77-year-old Sirhan Sirhan was granted parole, protesting against the California Parole Board's decision.

The former Congressman echoed his father Joseph Kennedy II and RFK's widow Ethel Kennedy by stating his opposition to the decision.
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"I believe deeply in the possibility of parole in the American justice system. I also believe deeply that the man who murdered my grandfather does not deserve it," he said in the statement.

"I echo the anger and heartache of my father, the majority of his siblings, and my grandmother at the California Parole Board’s recent recommendation," he continued.

"For our family, there has been no apology, no acceptance of responsibility, and no remorse. For our country, there has been no justification of letting the perpetrator of one of our most devastating political assassinations walk free."

The former Congressman said that the American criminal justice system required a move toward rehabilitation, compassion, and understanding but said that those who commit "heinous acts of violence" and reject accountability and empathy do not deserve it.

Earlier, his father Joseph Kennedy II described the California Parole Board's decision as a "grievous error" that should be reversed.

"I understand that there are differing views about ending the sentence of this killer, including within my own family. But emotions and opinions do not change facts or history," Joseph Kennedy II said on Sunday.

"The prisoner killed my father because of his support of Israel. The man was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Yet he now may walk free."

However, RFK's sons Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Douglas Kennedy have issued their support for the decision, stating Sirhan Sirhan is "a human being worthy of compassion and love".

RFK Jr., who attended Sirhan Sirhans' parole hearing along with his brother Douglas, said that his father would have encouraged the parole board's decision.

"While nobody can speak definitively on behalf of my father, I firmly believe that based on his own consuming commitment to fairness and justice, that he would strongly encourage this board to release Mr. Sirhan because of Sirhan’s impressive record of rehabilitation," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said.

The California Parole Board granted Sirhan Sirhan's parole last Friday, but the decision must be reviewed by the parole board's staff over the next 90 days before the decision is sent to California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has 30 days to decide whether to grant parole, modify it, or reverse the decision.

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Movies John F. Kennedy Loved James Bond- Tried to Imitate 007

Why John F. Kennedy Loved James Bond, Tried to Imitate 007

As the 25th movie in the James Bond series, "No Time to Die", premiered this month the role of JFK in making Bond so popular has come to light.


Irish Central 12 OCT 2021.






John F. Kennedy was a huge James Bond fan and the media often drew comparisons between 007 and JFK.






Sean Connery in "From Russia with Love."







Daneil Craig in the latest Bond flick, "No Time to Die".





The last movie President John F. Kennedy ever watched was “From Russia With Love”, the second in the James Bond series, just days before he was assassinated on Nov 22, 1963.

JFK first came across the James Bond character when he was recovering from back surgery in hospital, in 1954, and a friend gave him “Casino Royale”, the first 007 novel, by former British spy Ian Fleming.

Kennedy fell in love with the character and strongly identified with him. JFK was keen to create a dashing new image when running for the White House and when he succeeded in 1960, according to Washington Post journalist Theo Zenou.

”Kennedy deliberately used Bond to project an image as a heroic leader who could meet any challenge in the most perilous years of the Cold War... His bromance with Bond had begun.”

The James Bond author, Ian Fleming, was invited to the Kennedy residence during the 1960 campaign and in 1961 when Kennedy was asked about his favorite books he named “From Russia With Love” as one of his top three.

Kennedy’s choice meant that the book started to fly off the shelves.

Historian Mark White stated, “Fleming should have paid Kennedy a percentage of the royalties.”

Zenou points out that Fleming did. He wrote: “The novelist did repay the president, albeit with prose rather than cash. The next entry in the series, 'The Spy Who Loved Me,' included the line: 'We need some more Jack Kennedy’s.'"

The Kennedy tip of the hat meant that Bond movies became big business and producers rushed out. "Dr. No" and on Kennedy’s advice “From Russia With Love” next.

Kennedy obviously saw a lot of himself in Bond who was played by Scottish actor Sean Connery. Handsome, suave, attracted to beautiful women, he was always fearless and daring as Kennedy certainly was when his PT 109 Boat sank during World War II.

Zenou writes: “JFK was a master of spin. He knew that professing his fondness for Bond would result in an avalanche of articles lumping them together, which worked to his advantage. When people thought of Bond, they would also think of Kennedy — and thus the heroic qualities of the spy would get bestowed on the president.”

The subliminal message was there is a hero in the White House and he will protect us, At a time of great tension over Cuba with the Soviet Union it was a great boon for John F. Kennedy to be compared to James Bond.



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United States of America Pres. Biden Halts Release of JFK Assassination Docs

President Biden Halts Release of John F Kennedy Assassination Documents to "Protect Against Identifiable Harm"

A memo from the White House announced that the next document dump will be December 2021, with the more sensitive material delayed until 2022.

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The White House has announced that due to Covid-19 the public release of the records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy will be delayed.

A memo, signed by President Joe Biden was released by the White House announcing the "Temporary continued postponement is necessary to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.

In 1992, it was ruled, by Congress, that "all Government records concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy … should be eventually disclosed to enable the public to become fully informed about the history surrounding the assassination."

This act also allows the US government to "protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement or the conduct of foreign relations.

In 2018, former president Donald Trump released several thousand secret files on the assassination but withheld others on national security grounds.

According to the White House memo, this year, the National Archives and Records Administration ruled that "unfortunately, the pandemic has had a significant impact on the agencies," and added that they needed additional time to research the material and "maximize the amount of information released."

The most sensitive of this information is now set to be released in December 2022. The material, which has already been deemed "appropriate for release to the public", will now be released on Dec. 15, 2021.

Already 250k records have been released. However, the public can not view these records until they come to the NARA’s College Park, Maryland headquarters, according to the White House memo.

The assassination of the 46-year-old president was a "profound national tragedy" that "continues to resonate in American history and in the memories of so many Americans who were alive on that terrible day," the memo said.

A ten-month investigation led by then-Supreme Court chief justice Earl Warren concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine who had lived in the Soviet Union, acted alone when he fired on President Kennedy's motorcade....

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Arrow Right JFK Assassination: Nearly 1,500 Docs Published

JFK Assassination: Nearly 1,500 Documents Published by National Archives

The newly released documents relating to JFK's assassination are reportedly not expected to cast doubt upon the Warren Commission's findings.


Irish Central 16 DEC 2021






The National Archives in the US published on Wednesday nearly 1,500 documents relating to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, the first Irish American Catholic President of the US.




1,491 documents, including letters, testimony, and memos, relating to JFK's assassination were made available on The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) website on Wednesday, December 15.

Despite the large tranche of newly-available information, NPR reports that "no evidence is expected to emerge that would put in doubt the conclusion of the Warren Commission's report that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman in Dallas in November 1963."

NARA said on Wednesday that it posted the nearly 1,500 documents online in the wake of President Joe Biden’s memo issued on October 22 which required disclosure of releasable records by December 15, 2021.

"As of December 15, 2021, all documents subject to section 5 of the JFK Act have been released in full or in part," NARA said in a statement on Wednesday. "No documents subject to section 5 of the JFK Act remain withheld in full."

The JFK Act, formally titled The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, was passed in 1992 and says in part that "all records should be eventually disclosed to enable the public to become fully informed about the history surrounding the assassination."

As permitted by the JFK Act, agencies appealed to President Biden to continue postponement of certain information beyond October 22, 2021, the day Biden issued his memo.

In his memo, President Biden accepted a recommendation from the Archivist that he should “temporarily certify the continued withholding of all of the information certified in 2018” and “direct two public releases of the information that has” ultimately “been determined to be appropriate for release to the public."

Biden directed agencies “to ensure that the United States Government maximizes transparency, disclosing all information in records concerning the assassination, except when the strongest possible reasons counsel otherwise.”


The memo notes that a more "comprehensive" release should occur in 2022.


NARA said on Wednesday: "Over the next year, the National Archives and the agencies proposing continued postponement of more than 14,000 previously withheld documents will be conducting an intensive review of each remaining section 5 redaction to ensure that the United States Government maximizes transparency.

"Any information currently withheld from public disclosure that agencies do not propose for continued postponement beyond December 15, 2022, will be released to the public on that date."

The John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection, established by the National Archives in November 1992, consists of approximately five million pages. The vast majority of the collection has been publicly available without restrictions on access since the late 1990s, NARA says.
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The First Kennedys Explores The Humble Roots of The Irish American Dynasty

An advanced look at Neal Thompson's "The First Kennedys," which delves into the lives of Irish emigrant pair Patrick and Bridget Kennedy.


Irish Central. 26 JAN 2022.








When we think of the Kennedys - Irish America's first family - we think of their wealth, power, and style.



But it's a million miles from the humble origins of Patrick and Bridget Kennedy, the hard-working mid-19th century Irish immigrant couple who escaped famine, poverty, and oppression in Ireland to create a life together in a new American city that loathed Irish refugees.

Wondering why the famous family's raw early years in the United States had been sidelined for so long, Irish American author Neal Thompson has delved into the lives and backgrounds of emigrant pair Patrick and Bridget Kennedy in his twenty years in the making new book, "The First Kennedys, The Humble Roots Of An American Dynasty."

In the process, he has come to admire the grit and street smarts displayed by young Bridget Kennedy in particular, the mother of them all.

Partly Thompson's admiration is circumstantial because Patrick died young of consumption, or what we now call tuberculosis, at the age of 35, leaving Bridget with little money and four hungry children to raise.

The danger of being a single mother in that century in America was as profound as in the century that followed in Ireland, but Bridget set to work to change all their fortunes and she succeeded beyond anyone's dreams.

At every step, she had a fight on her hands. Even burying her young husband was an ordeal because the then protestant-run city of Boston showed undisguised contempt for the tens of thousands of famine-era Irish.

There were even laws in place to prevent most Catholic burials within the city limits, which meant Bridget and her children had to take two boats to reach the town of Cambridge, where her tragic young husband could finally be laid to rest.

We think of Boston now as a seat of Irish Catholic power and we think of the Kennedys as the ultimate aristocratic insiders, but neither of these things was true when the first American Kennedys made their home there and perhaps for that reason it's why so few historians have ever lifted the rock off those harsh early days in the families history.

“I think people prefer the version of the story where the heroic and beautiful Kennedys are a great hope for democracy and civil rights,” Thompson tells IrishCentral. “But I find that the more interesting piece of the Kennedy story is that like almost every immigrant wave coming to America, they really started with nothing.”

Starting at the bottom and had to claw their way up, Thompson continues. “We never really think of the Kennedys as hard striving, part of the larger poor and despised Irish immigrant population. But because I myself come from an immigrant Irish couple, second generation, I know that things must have been very tough for them starting out.”






October 23, 1962: President John F. Kennedy Signs Cuba Quarantine Order. (Public Domain / JFK Library)




Thompson's own grandfather came from Ireland in the 1920s, he says. “He was a truck driver and my grandmother was a maid and then a seamstress, so they were not too dissimilar from the earlier waves of Irish immigrants, starting at the very bottom. And I think we are losing and forgetting that story, especially I think in recent years as the rhetoric around 'build the wall' returned. The fear of the immigrant is still so strong and it's always been that way here.”

The hostility toward the arriving Irish in Boston was seen in so many ways, but even in death, their bigotry didn't let up. “You know, the fact that the entire city was closed off to Irish burials by law was remarkable. There was no Catholic cemetery on the island of East Boston where the Kennedys lived. So they literally had to leave their own city to find a place to bury Bridget's dead husband. Well, first her young son and then her husband. There was no respite in life or even in death.”

That's the kind of hard lesson that makes you clear-eyed about the country you are living in and the people who surround you. It's also an unforgettable way to learn the value of civil rights and community cooperation. None of this was lost on Bridget, nor would it ever be lost on her descendants.

“What fascinated me is that these days you think of Boston as such an Irish city, because that's what it became. The stronghold of the Kennedys and the Irish Democrats. But at the time the first wave of Kennedys came to America, Boston hated the Irish and hated Catholics.

“They did everything in their power to stop them from achieving power or agency. They suppressed their voting rights. They made it mandatory to study Protestant history and say Protestant prayers. These things the Irish had to fight against just to have the laws recognize their religion and their rights.”







Brothers John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy in 1960. (Public Domain)



Bridget Kennedy emerges as such a formidable woman in Thompson's telling. She loses her husband early, a development that would have unmoored many people, but not her. She somehow reinvents herself as an entrepreneur and businesswoman and starts to thrive, laying the groundwork for the rise of her son to enterprise and public service, clearing the way for the emerging Kennedy dynasty.

“I'm glad you latched onto that because I think Bridget is such a heroic character and a forgotten one. To have come to America on her own in the first place, a young single woman traveling across the ocean at a time when it was so dangerous to do so. Then finding herself alone again after her husband dies, and she was poor. She didn't have many resources. There was no one coming to rescue her when she was left alone with her four kids.

“I just think it says a lot about her, her grit and her drive and her determination, that she found a way to move up a couple notches, starting out as a maid and then becoming a hairdresser. And then remarkably opening her own business at a time when it was difficult for the Irish and especially difficult for single women. I just think she is the hero of that family.”

Maybe it says something about the Kennedys that she wasn't held up as the hero of that family, Thompson says. “JFK famously gave a speech after a visit to his Irish family homestead in New Ross where he talked about his great-grandfather having left Ireland. So he gives credit briefly to his great-grandfather, but he never mentions Bridget. And I couldn't find any evidence of Bobby Kennedy or Ted Kennedy ever mentioning Bridget either, even though I think she's the reason that the Kennedy clan survived and ultimately survived in America.”


When I ask him if he thinks such great emigrant journeys are still possible, the kind of classic immigrant tales of the 19th century where people leave the old country rarely to return, he pauses. Does he feel like that's still a feature of American life and politics now?

“That's a great question. I'm hopeful that it is, but I worry too that the doors are being closed intentionally. I wish there was more of that messaging from Biden and others. We now have our second Irish Catholic president. But I don't see him in his actions and his words acting like he's an Irish Catholic president."

"I think he has downplayed that side of his background. I wish he would amplify the message of his own heritage, which is that of an oppressed class of immigrant people who work their way up and look what you can achieve. I think there's a little bit of a lost opportunity there to show us a little bit more clearly who we are and what we're capable of and how we can come from nothing and work our way up.”


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JFK Was An Easy Target" During His Irish Visit, Former President of Ireland Said

President de Valera recounted President John F. Kennedy's historic 1963 visit to Ireland as part of an oral history project in 1966.

Irish Central 28 JUL 2022.







President John F. Kennedy in Co Wexford in June 1963.

Éamon de Valera believed that US President John F. Kennedy was an "easy target" after seeing him greet onlookers during his famous visit to Ireland in 1963.


De Valera discussed a wide range of topics ranging from Kennedy's assassination to his historic visit to Ireland when speaking to Joseph E. O'Connor in an Oral History Interview for the John F. Kennedy Library in September 1966.





De Valera, who was President of Ireland at the time of the interview, remarked that it crossed his mind that Kennedy would be an "easy target", describing the former US President as "anxious" to get out and meet people.

"I did think when he was coming in with me from the airport, he was standing up, and it did pass through my mind, curiously enough, what an easy target he would have been. But then, no man can protect himself in a position who wants to meet his people; no man can protect himself if the other people are prepared to give their lives in return," de Valera told O'Connor.

He said he was "dumbfounded" when he learned of Kennedy's assassination in Dallas in November 1963.

JFK got a reception "such as no other visitor has ever received" during his historic four-day visit to Ireland in June 1963, de Valera said.

"He was received with open arms by young and old. He was cheered wherever he
went along the streets. It was a triumphal procession from the airport to up here. He paid his first call here. But we regretted very much that he didn't stay with us here.

"He didn't stay with us because he pointed out that he wanted to be in very close contact all the time with Washington. And that meant that the installation of a great deal of equipment and tons of equipment were necessary to keep that contact."

De Valera said he regretted that he only met Kennedy at a "few luncheons".



De Valera lauded Kennedy for sticking to his principles after being elected president in 1960, describing him as a man of "very noble ideals".

"We were watching to see to what extent he would put these ideas into
practice as President of the United States, now that he was perhaps in the most powerful position that any individual can be in. And we were delighted to see that the ideas weren't mere fancy, that there were things that he really believed in, and that he was going to act up to the highest things that he had spoken of," de Valera said.

He also commended Kennedy for his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and his dealings with the Soviet Union throughout his presidency, describing him as a "man of firm character".

De Valera also said the Irish Government was "pleased" with Kennedy's attitude toward the "race question in the United States".

"We know it's a very, very big problem and a difficult one, one which we were very pleased we didn't have any of the same kind to deal with here. But we recognized that the line which he was taking was the correct one, at least looking at it from the outside.

"I had been in theUnited States I had traveled through the Southern states; I knew what the conditions were as well as the Northern ones. I knew what the situation was over there, and I knew how difficult it would be to give effect to his program. But it was one of these things that had to be tackled sometime, and he was tackling it in what we considered the only way that it could be tackled."


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Movies Re: Ex-Secret Service Agent Reveals NEW JFK Assassination Detail About The 'Magic Bul

Jackie Kennedys' Ex-Secret Service Agent Makes New Claim About The JFK Assassination

Paul Landis, a former Secret Service agent assigned to former first lady Jackie Kennedy, discusses claims he made that raises questions about the so-called "magic bullet" theory in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.


Irish Central 25 SEP 2023




A Dallas policeman holds up the rifle used to kill President John F Kennedy on 22 November, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the murder.








Six decades later, new details are still coming to light in one of the most scrutinised events in American history: the assassination of President John F Kennedy.




Paul Landis, an 88-year-old former Secret Service agent who witnessed the president's death at close range, says in an upcoming memoir that he took a bullet from the car after Mr Kennedy was shot, and then left it on the former president's stretcher at the hospital.



It might seem like a minute detail in a case that has been pored over since the 1960s, and for which the government laid out an exhaustive report. But to individuals who have spent decades looking at every shred of evidence, Mr Landis's account is a major and unexpected development.

Conspiracies over how many gunmen were involved, who was ultimately responsible, and how many bullets actually struck the president have abounded in the decades since the assassination.

The idea that the true facts of the case differ from the official version is modern America's original conspiracy theory, and according to some historians, the killing instigated the nation's decaying trust in its government.

Depending on how one looks at it, Mr Landis's story either changes nothing or everything.

His book The Final Witness is guaranteed to add more kindling to the never-ending national obsession with the assassination.

"This is really the most significant news in the assassination since 1963," said James Robenalt, a historian and Kennedy expert who worked with Mr Landis to prepare him for his public revelations.




New Details in an Old Case

The primary facts of the Kennedy assassination are, by this point, well known and established.

On 22 November 1963, a convertible carrying President Kennedy, First Lady Jackie Kennedy, and Texas Governor John Connally Jr and his wife was driving through Dealey Plaza in Dallas when a series of shots rang out.

Mr Kennedy was struck in the head and neck, and Mr Connally was hit in the back. Authorities rushed both to nearby Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Mr Kennedy was declared dead. The governor survived.

The Warren Commission report, the result of a government inquiry into the killing, identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the sole gunman. Ballistics evidence helped confirm this conclusion. He was shot and killed shortly after the assassination while in police custody.

The report also concluded that a single bullet travelled through Mr Kennedy and hit Mr Connally and caused several injuries, which helps explain how one gunman carried out the attack. The finding became known as the "single bullet theory" or "magic bullet theory".

The commission partly relied on the fact that a bullet had later been found on Mr Connally's hospital gurney.

At the time, nobody knew where it had come from. But the committee ultimately concluded that the bullet had become dislodged as doctors raced to treat Mr Connally.

Some sceptics of the official report have long fixated on the single bullet, finding it difficult to believe that it could have caused as many injuries as it did to two separate men.

Mr Landis's account has landed like a bombshell not only because it provides a new first-hand testimony but because, in some views, it complicates the theory of the single bullet.


What Paul Landis Remembers


On the day of the assassination, Mr Landis, then 28, was detailed to Jackie Kennedy.

When the violence began, he was just feet away from President Kennedy and witnessed the gruesome blow to his head.

Then came absolute pandemonium. What Mr Landis did next, he told no one but a few confidants for decades.

In an interview with the New York Times, Mr Landis said that after the motorcade arrived at the hospital, he spotted a bullet lodged in the Kennedy's car behind where the president had been sitting.

He picked it up and pocketed it. Shortly after, in his recollections, he was in an emergency room with President Kennedy, where he said he placed it on the president's gurney so the evidence would travel with the body.

"There was nobody there to secure the scene, and that was a big, big bother to me," Mr Landis told the Times.

"This was all going on so quickly. And I was just afraid that - it was a piece of evidence, that I realised right away," he continued. "Very important. And I didn't want it to disappear or get lost."

Mr Landis apparently never came forward with this particular evidence, and while he filed reports and statements in the immediate aftermath, the Warren Commission never interviewed him. He never wrote it down in any official report.

"He was totally sleep deprived and was still required to work, and was suffering from severe PTSD," Mr Robenalt told the BBC.

"He forgot about the bullet," said Mr Robenalt, who spent significant time interviewing Mr Landis about his recollections and recently wrote a Vanity Fair piece deconstructing the revelation.

"He was totally absorbed in the enormous stuff that was going on."

For years, he avoided reading about the assassination or the conspiracy theories it sparked - until he decided he was ready to tell his story to the world.


The Mystery Bullet


Those who have read Mr Landis's account have taken different conclusions from it - and the story raises as many questions as it potentially answers.

Mr Robenalt told the BBC that he believes this account undermines the "single bullet" theory.

Mr Landis now believes the bullet he had found in the car was the one that turned up on Mr Connally's gurney.

He believes the bullet had embedded shallowly in Mr Kennedy's back and fallen out in the car.

If he is right, Mr Robenalt said, Mr Connelly and Mr Kennedy may not have been struck by the same bullet.

A British nurse was in the Dallas hospital when JFK was shot

He even believes it could re-open scepticism about whether Mr Oswald acted alone.

If it had not been one bullet that caused both men's injuries, Mr Robenalt asks in his extensive Vanity Fair piece, could Oswald have possibly fired both shots in such rapid succession with the rifle he used?

Mr Landis does have very serious sceptics, however, including a colleague who was also a direct participant that day.

Clint Hill, the agent who famously jumped onto the back of the Kennedy's car to protect the president, does not believe Mr Landis' account.


"If he checked all the evidence, statements, things that happened, they don't line up," Mr Hill told NBC News. "It doesn't make any sense to me that he's trying to put it on the president's gurney."

To Gerald Posner, an investigative journalist and author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, Mr Landis's story actually supports the "single bullet" theory.

"People would now know how the bullet wound up on Connally's gurney," he said.

Mr Posner said "his account has to be taken seriously", but also had doubts about the certainty of Mr Landis's memories after nearly six decades had passed.

For example, Mr Posner pointed toward interviews from people inside the emergency room with Mr Kennedy at Parkland hospital. No one mentions Mr Landis's presence there, he said.

And the fact that Mr Landis never came forward raises questions about his conduct that day, Mr Posner said.

"That being said, he could say things that are wrong but the underlying fact that, 'I saw a bullet, I grabbed it, put in my pocket, and left it at the hospital before I left': that either is true or not," Mr Posner said.

Whether or not Mr Landis opens a new mystery or simply confirms existing fact is almost beside the point.

This is the Kennedy assassination, after all, and his revelation will ensure continued years of debate and dissection of one of America's greatest national traumas.

"Are you going solve it to anybody's 100% satisfaction? No," Mr Posner said. "It's a case that will never be closed, for most people."

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