JFK Assassination & New Evidence
November 22, 2023 marked the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s death. A current Gallop poll shows 65% of Americans do not believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Some years it has been as high as 81% (Gallop Poll Nov. 2023; https://news.gallup.com/poll/514310/decades-later-americans-doubt-lone-gunman-killed-jfk.aspx). There seems to be plenty of hearsay and circumstantial evidence that keeps the conspiracy theories alive and well. Rumors that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for the CIA, or organized crime and Cuban exiles carried out the assassination, or the FBI was involved in a cover-up. What facts or pieces of evidence exist that can be called credible? Two come to mind: 1) President Kennedy’s fatal head wound, which caused an exit wound at the back of his head, which indicates that the shooter was in front of the motorcade, and not in the Texas School Book Depository building. 2) The Zapruder film, which corroborates the theory that the fatal head wound was caused by shooter in front of the President’s car. There are links below to the Zapruder film and an interview with Dr. McClelland, who describes JFK’s head wound, and talks about his opinion that the fatal shot was from the front. Keep in mind, that the doctors at Parkland Hospital in Dallas saw, on average, 3 gunshot wounds a day. Therefore, I think Dr. McClelland is a credible witness. During this interview, Dr. Jones talks about a meeting with Arlen Specter, a junior counsel working for the Warren Commission, who came to Dallas 6 months after the assassination, and quizzed the doctor on the throat wound, which Dr. Jones admits that he initially thought the throat wound was caused by a shooter in front of the motorcade. Mr. Specter tried to convince Jones that what he saw was an exit wound, visible on the front of the President’s throat. Arlen Specter also told Dr. Jones that he had some witnesses who are willing to testify that they saw a shooter on the overpass, in front of the President’s car, but they weren’t credible. He also told the doctor not to talk about this to anyone. Arlen Specter, who went on to have a long career as a senator from Pennsylvania, is given credit for the “Magic Bullet” theory.
Mark Shaw, an investigative journalist and historian, gave a presentation in 2021 at the Allen Public Library, near Dallas, Texas. Mr. Shaw believes Dorothy Kilgallen did not die from an accidental mixture of alcohol and sleeping pills, which was the official cause of death back in Nov. 1965, but was “silenced”. Ms. Kilgallen was a regular on What’s My Line, a popular TV show that aired Sunday evenings. She also had a column in one of New York’s newspapers and she didn’t buy the “Oswald Alone” theory and attended Jack Ruby’s trial in Dallas. Afterward, she told friends she was going to New Orleans and would bust the case wide open. She was later found dead in her New York apartment, and missing were all her files and notes. Mr. Shaw’s presentation is based on his book, Denial of Justice, where he makes the case that Dorothy Kilgallen was murdered as part of a cover-up of the JFK assassination.
