The American Conservative
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Paul Landis was one of two Secret Service agents assigned to protect the First Lady.
Landis says he is sure the bullet he found was Commission Exhibit 399 (CE 399 ) The conventional account has always held that the bullet was discovered on the gurney of Texas Governor John Connally , also wounded in the shooting, after his body had been removed for trauma surgery.
JFK assassination "conspiracy theory" stems from Specter ’s implausible formula, writes Peter Bergen .
Bergen: If Landis is telling the truth about finding CE 399 in back of the car, then a different bullet pierced Connally's torso, and the Single Bullet Theory is dead.
He says Landis now cites post-traumatic stress disorder as having deterred him from coming forward.
Such methods likely continued during the JFK murder inquiry, even if Hoover’s G-men weren’t solely culpable for the improbably high number of unnatural and untimely witness deaths in subsequent years . Now, a former U.S. security agent near the end of his ninth decade , in perhaps the last great and noble gesture of his long life, is helping to demolish, finally, a squalid version of U.S. history still mistrusted by a majority of Americans . Those of us inclined to believe in miracles feel we just might be witnessing one ..
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