Posted on 11/23/2018 1:40:44 AM PST by ZeroToHero
In an exclusive interview with Sun Online on the 55th anniversary of the assassination today, Clint, 86, reveals how he will never be able to forget the shocking and gruesome image of the president's last moments.
And, tragically, even now Clint still believes “he should have been faster” - and blames himself for the president’s death.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
If the driver had sped up and “changed course” (veered left) after the first shot, it would’ve done more to alter history.
Was the agent (who looked more like he was trying to tell Mrs. Kennedy ‘get back in the car’) going to climb over rows of seats to block the next bullet?
Four Presidents’ have been shot to death: Abraham Lincoln (1865), James A. Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1901), and John F. Kennedy (1963). All four were shot on a Friday.
Sorry, I looked it up and Garfield was shot July 2 1881 a Saturday.
I just watched that yesterday.
It’s difficult to block bullets from two different directions but anyway that “and that’s the way it is” devoted a one hour program attempting to prove the Warren fairytale, “and that’s the way it is” was the most trusted in America and that is what we are and we’re told. And btw, And that’s the way it was and IS
What this story left out was that upon seeing the empty skull, Hill gave the thumb down signal to the trailing SS car, which the agent on top of LBJ also saw. That agent knew he was guarding the new President before the limo hit the triple underpass.
Sorry, you can’t be faster than Jackie. She was sitting right next to him. It was an inside job.
He was assigned to guard Jackie Kennedy, not the President.
Strange but true:
At least two dozen - four dozen, of the witnesses to the assassination thought at least one gunshot came from in front of the presidential motorcade, a claim rejected by the Warren Commission and most U.S. news organizations...
Review the eyewitness accounts, especially those of people with crime scene training.
http://jfkfacts.org/21-jfk-cops-who-heard-a-grassy-knoll-shot/#more-6381
The Warren Report has travel expense logs for Oswald’s trip to Mexico. Lone Crazed gunmen, don’t keep expense logs.
“Really, Clark”?
Watched the Zapruder Film again yesterday and I have no doubt that the kill shot was fired from the side and in front of the car.. I think from the storm sewer...a direct tunnel to escape undetected. Yes, it was a hit job.
Wow, I never saw that wink and grin before.
Too soon?
That joke gave Lincoln a headache...
I remember it like it was yesterday, I was in the 5th grade when it happened. And Jackie it is said was actually reaching for a piece of the President’s skull when she climbed on the back of the car. Imagine had he lived and we been spared the disaster of Johnson.
Yes but to be fair, the driver would need to know the direction of threat in order to take the instantaneously correct evasive action between the first and second shot.
Given the location of Oswald, I agree with you that an immediate zig, or zag following the first shot would have changed the target from essentially stationary to moving and thereby presenting far more difficult followup shots.
However, zig-zag is not always the correct response.
The driver would have needed to know the direction of attack in order to take the correct evasive action.
Not much time elapsed between the first and followup shots. In an urban environment, open air convertible, with motorcade noise and crowd noise, by the time the driver realized an attack was underway, it was over as far as JFK was concerned.
Was the agent (who looked more like he was trying to tell Mrs. Kennedy ‘get back in the car’) going to climb over rows of seats to block the next bullet?
My guess is no. I may be totally wrong but my thinking is the agent wasn't wearing any kind of body armor and was primarily trying to change the target profile from essentially stationary to moving unpredictably.
Taking a bullet in the process was secondary to the primary need for creating sudden, unpredictable target movement and concealment as more agents pile on and around. The agent would know his body might stop a handgun bullet but would be of no use against a rifle bullet and might even cause what would have been a near miss to deflect as it passed through his body into a target kill shot.
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