RIP to the Single-bullet theory?

[Charles Collins]

I read all three of Clint Hill’s books. I don’t remember him even hinting at anything resembling Paul Lands’ outlandish story or Landis ever mentioning it to him. Apparently Clint Hill is still alive and kicking. But I saw no indications in the Vanity Fair article that anyone has tried to contact Clint regarding Landis’ contentions. And not surprisingly, the naysayers have expressed no skepticism about Landis’ story.

[Jon Banks]

Another hoax “new account” in a new book that “just happens” to be published perfectly timed with the sixtieth anniversary of the assassination. Yawn, these types of things will probably still be appearing on the hundredth and sixtieth anniversary…

Impressive that you’ve reached that conclusion without reading the book.

It’s entirely possible that Landis could be misremembering some details in his old age but he’s almost 90 years old. If he wanted to grift off of the Kennedy assassination, why didn’t he do it decades earlier like others?

[Jon Banks]

I read all three of Clint Hill’s books. I don’t remember him even hinting at anything resembling Paul Lands’ outlandish story or Landis ever mentioning it to him. Apparently Clint Hill is still alive and kicking. But I saw no indications in the Vanity Fair article that anyone has tried to contact Clint regarding Landis’ contentions. And not surprisingly, the naysayers have expressed no skepticism about Landis’ story.

Clint Hill was quoted in the NY Times article about Landis’ book.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/us/politics/jfk-assassination-witness-paul-landis.html


Parkland nurse, Phyllis Hall’s testimony, corroborates Landis’ claim that he put a bullet on Kennedy’s stretcher.

The question is, did Landis know of her story before he started telling others about what he did 60 years ago?

He’s at least credible and not easy to dismiss as a witness. It’s just a matter of figuring out what parts of his story can be corroborated by the evidence or other witnesses.

[Charles Collins]

Clint Hill was quoted in the NY Times article about Landis’ book.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/us/politics/jfk-assassination-witness-paul-landis.html


Parkland nurse, Phyllis Hall’s testimony, corroborates Landis’ claim that he put a bullet on Kennedy’s stretcher.

The question is, did Landis know of her story before he started telling others about what he did 60 years ago?

He’s at least credible and not easy to dismiss as a witness. It’s just a matter of figuring out what parts of his story can be corroborated by the evidence or other witnesses.

Apparently one has to subscribe to The NY Times in order to read the article. What did Clint Hill have to say?

[John Iacoletti]

“Indeed, his partner, Clint Hill, the legendary Secret Service agent who clambered onto the back of the speeding limousine in a futile effort to save Kennedy, discouraged Mr. Landis from speaking out. “Many ramifications,” Mr. Hill warned in a 2014 email that Mr. Landis saved and shared last month.

Mr. Hill, who has set out his own account of what happened in multiple books and interviews, cast doubt on Mr. Landis’s version on Friday. “I believe it raises concerns when the story he is telling now, 60 years after the fact, is different than the statements he wrote in the days following the tragedy” and told in subsequent years, Mr. Hill said in an email. “In my mind, there are serious inconsistencies in his various statements/stories.””

[Jon Banks]

Apparently one has to subscribe to The NY Times in order to read the article. What did Clint Hill have to say?

It was not until 2014 that he realized that the official account of the bullet differed from his memory, he said, but he did not come forward then out of a feeling that he had made a mistake in putting it on the stretcher without telling anyone in that pre-C.S.I., secure-the-crime-scene era.

“I didn’t want to talk about it,” Mr. Landis said. “I was afraid. I started to think, did I do something wrong? There was a fear that I might have done something wrong and I shouldn’t talk about it.”
Indeed, his partner, Clint Hill, the legendary Secret Service agent who clambered onto the back of the speeding limousine in a futile effort to save Kennedy, discouraged Mr. Landis from speaking out. “Many ramifications,” Mr. Hill warned in a 2014 email that Mr. Landis saved and shared last month.

Mr. Hill, who has set out his own account of what happened in multiple books and interviews, cast doubt on Mr. Landis’s version on Friday. “I believe it raises concerns when the story he is telling now, 60 years after the fact, is different than the statements he wrote in the days following the tragedy” and told in subsequent years, Mr. Hill said in an email. “In my mind, there are serious inconsistencies in his various statements/stories.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/us/politics/jfk-assassination-witness-paul-landis.html

[John Iacoletti]

This all is very interesting because a few years ago the claim was made that it was Sam Kinney who admitted finding a bullet in the car and putting it on a stretcher.

But, of course, there is no reason to believe that the stretcher bullet was CE 399.