Key Eyewitness Opens Up

According to the official report of the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination, published in September 1964, Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, firing three shots - with the second and third striking the president and the third killing Kennedy. (According to Paul Landis, now age 88, only one of the eight agents in the follow-up car was interviewed by the commission; at the time, Landis was detailed to the protection of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.) When word broke about the upcoming book by Landis, he was interviewed by The New York Times, which noted that the commission's investigators came up with the single-bullet theory in part because the bullet was supposedly found on Connally's stretcher at Parkland Memorial Hospital. When the agent transfers to the "Lace Detail" (named after the First Lady's Secret Service code-name), it is a critical time historically - though coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis is essentially reduced to one long paragraph. [...]order, we find ourselves in the chaotic Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Landis' racing thoughts swing back to the important evidence he has found and how it might be helpful in an autopsy.