Sylvia Meagher on the Sewer shot and Jim Garrison

[Fred Litwin]

A pithy letter from Sylvia Meagher about Jim Garrison and his idea that a shot originated from the Sewer.



https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/sylvia-meagher-on-the-sewer-shot-and-jim-garrison

[Lance Payette]

You have to give them your email address to read it, but Texas Monthly had a humorous article where Penn Jones actually took the reporter down into the sewer:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/still-on-the-case/

So here I am, out in the midday sun, lowering myself into this manhole. It’s kind of cool down here, though some might call it dank. While it is nice to escape the pounding of the direct sunlight, this is not my idea of summer fun. But this is no ordinary manhole. This is the historic Dealey Plaza manhole that a certain faction of assassination buffs—led by Penn Jones, Jr., the guy in the middle of Elm Street—believes sheltered a sniper who fired the fatal frontal head shot on November 22, 1963. This manhole is the first stop on a grand tour of Dallas assassination shrines, during which, among other things, Penn has promised to show me the exact locations from which, he says offhandedly, the nine gunmen fired at John F. Kennedy that day. Sort of the Stations of the Cross Fire in conspiracy-theory gospel.

Not the least of my problems with the Manhole Sniper theory is that it requires the putative manhole assassin to have popped up the hundred-pound manhole cover at just the right moment, fired a shot, then plopped it down over his head without any of the surrounding crowd taking notice of his activity. But Penn is determined to set me straight on this misapprehension.

[Gary Hemod]

There was no suggestion of lifting the cover to make the shot.
Penn's assistant stood at the point where Kennedy was and Penn could see that point through the slot in the curb.
There would have only been a few seconds to make the shot though.