[SystemSafety] The Third Bullet

[Les Chambers]

A television show on the JFK assassination  aired in Australia last night.

Synopsis: 

JFK: The Smoking Gun is a two-hour docudrama based on the book of the same
name by former Australian police detective Colin McLaren. He claims to have
spent years on "the forensic cold-case investigation of JFK's assassination"
and says he believes he has found "the smoking gun" that killed the
president. His conclusion is that a Secret Service agent George Hickey
accidentally shot and killed Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald did indeed shoot,
but only one bullet hit Kennedy.

McLaren's candidate scenario is as follows:

Three shots are fired at JFK.

The first one (fired by Oswald) misses, ricochets off the road and some
shrapnel strikes the president. He is heard to say "God I've been hit."

The second one (fired by Oswald) hits JFK in the back of the neck and passes
through also striking Connolly, the governor of Texas.

George Hickey in an open top  secret service escort car directly behind the
president's vehicle unlatches the safety catch on his AR 15 assault rifle
and stands up accidentally discharging his weapon and killing the president.
He then falls back into his seat. This third round is a "frangible" round
exploding inside the president's head. It is the fatal shot. 

At least four witnesses at street level claimed they smelt gun powder.
Others testified that they saw Hickey stand up and sit down in the following
vehicle. McLaren concludes that the third round could not have come from
Oswald's weapon as he was too far away, too high up in the book depository
and downwind of the witnesses (a gunpowder smell from his weapon would not
have reached the crowd). He also deems it incredible that Oswald would be
firing both frangible and nonfrangible rounds.

 The rest of McLaren's supporting evidence is based on the alleged bizarre
behaviour of the Secret Service after the assassination. According to
McLaren they actively prevented an autopsy being carried out on the
president and spirited his body back to Washington. The photographs taken
both on the street and at the initial examination in the hospital were
confiscated by the Secret Service. The president's brain went missing and
has never been found.

 

Is this all old news? I had not heard it before. How could it be that no one
in the crowd saw Hickey actually discharge the weapon (one witness said she
thinks she saw a flash "... and men firing back" - the enquiry did not
pursue this line of investigation). It also seems incredible that the Secret
Service would protect one of their own (as claimed by McLaren) after he
committed such a blunder.

 

Any comments.

 

Cheers

Les

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