SS Agent Paul Landis speaks out... finally, about Magic Bullet.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Thanks for the link to the Landis interview. That is one of the best ones I have seen. It answers my question about whether or not Landis ever entered trauma room one. He said he did but left after a doctor asked for people who were not needed for medical reasons to leave the room. Stephen Fagin is a very good interviewer. Thanks to him and the Sixth Floor Museum for all that they do.

Given the behavior of the other agents - FBI, DPD and SS - it's not entirely inconceivable that he would put the bullet back on the stretcher. But "not entirely" covers a lot of ground. However, if we combine this supposed act with the 60 years of him, in several interviews where he details what he did, not mentioning it, it's essentially for me a worthless claim.

[Jon Banks]

Given the behavior of the other agents - FBI, DPD and SS - it's not entirely inconceivable that he would put the bullet back on the stretcher. But "not entirely" covers a lot of ground. However, if we combine this supposed act with the 60 years of him, in several interviews where he details what he did, not mentioning it, it's essentially for me a worthless claim.

Landis first mentioned finding a "bullet fragment" on the rear seat of the limo to the AP in 1983, 40 years ago:

"Landis said that when he got to the Kennedy limousine outside the hospital, the president had already been taken inside, but he helped Mrs. Kennedy out. He said there was a bullet fragment on the top of the back seat that he picked up and gave to somebody."

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...in 2014, after reading Josiah “Tink” Thompson’s 1967 book, Six Seconds in Dallas, and seeing for the first time the “official” explanation that a whole bullet had been found on Connally’s stretcher, he realized that, no, that was actually the bullet he had found in Kennedy’s limousine, and that he shouldn’t remain silent any longer.


https://whowhatwhy.org/culture/newest-jfk-twist-agents-explosive-story-conflicts-with-forgotten-earlier-one/


The guy who helped him write his memoir says Landis was misquoted the previous times that his account of a "bullet fragment" was mentioned.

I expect that a Secret Service agent should know the difference between a bullet and a bullet fragment. So if he wasn't misquoted, that's a problem.

[Charles Collins]

Given the behavior of the other agents - FBI, DPD and SS - it's not entirely inconceivable that he would put the bullet back on the stretcher. But "not entirely" covers a lot of ground. However, if we combine this supposed act with the 60 years of him, in several interviews where he details what he did, not mentioning it, it's essentially for me a worthless claim.

Even if someone could somehow begin to believe his claim (I cannot), the physics (ballistics, etc) of how it ended up on top of the back seat of the limo would need to be explained. Along with an explanation as to how the bullet got flattened on one side near the base…

[Richard Smith]

Landis first mentioned finding a "bullet fragment" on the rear seat of the limo to the AP in 1983, 40 years ago:

"Landis said that when he got to the Kennedy limousine outside the hospital, the president had already been taken inside, but he helped Mrs. Kennedy out. He said there was a bullet fragment on the top of the back seat that he picked up and gave to somebody."

....

...in 2014, after reading Josiah “Tink” Thompson’s 1967 book, Six Seconds in Dallas, and seeing for the first time the “official” explanation that a whole bullet had been found on Connally’s stretcher, he realized that, no, that was actually the bullet he had found in Kennedy’s limousine, and that he shouldn’t remain silent any longer.


https://whowhatwhy.org/culture/newest-jfk-twist-agents-explosive-story-conflicts-with-forgotten-earlier-one/


The guy who helped him write his memoir says Landis was misquoted the previous times that his account of a "bullet fragment" was mentioned.

I expect that a Secret Service agent should know the difference between a bullet and a bullet fragment. So if he wasn't misquoted, that's a problem.

Dropping a bullet on a stretcher is also not consistent with giving it to somebody.

[Brian Doyle]

Landis first mentioned finding a "bullet fragment" on the rear seat of the limo to the AP in 1983, 40 years ago:

"Landis said that when he got to the Kennedy limousine outside the hospital, the president had already been taken inside, but he helped Mrs. Kennedy out. He said there was a bullet fragment on the top of the back seat that he picked up and gave to somebody."

    We might be getting to the real truth here...

    Perhaps Landis gave the Magic Bullet to somebody who then introduced it in to evidence between the Johnsen/Rowley hand-off...

    Landis didn't cavalierly thumb flip the bullet in to Kennedy's stretcher without being seen by the numerous personnel around it, he handed it off but can't say so without condemning the authorities involved...

[Richard Smith]

I believe Landis is supposed to be on CNN later today.  Jake Trapper?

[Jon Banks]

    We might be getting to the real truth here...

    Perhaps Landis gave the Magic Bullet to somebody who then introduced it in to evidence between the Johnsen/Rowley hand-off...

    Landis didn't cavalierly thumb flip the bullet in to Kennedy's stretcher without being seen by the numerous personnel around it, he handed it off but can't say so without condemning the authorities involved...

Yeah. He could be protecting someone else. Who knows? There’s an earlier claim that SS agent Sam Kinney (now deceased) was the person who placed the bullet on a stretcher at Parkland.

Given that the mainstream media is giving him so much attention, I suspect that maybe this whole thing is intended to prepare the public for eventual acknowledgement that there was a conspiracy?

It’s really unusual to see so many mainstream news outlets give so much uncritical air time to a JFK assassination conspiracy story. Not sure what to make of it.

[Richard Smith]

Yeah. He could be protecting someone else. Who knows? There’s an earlier claim that SS agent Sam Kinney (now deceased) was the person who placed the bullet on a stretcher at Parkland.

Given that the mainstream media is giving him so much attention, I suspect that maybe this whole thing is intended to prepare the public for eventual acknowledgement that there was a conspiracy?

It’s really unusual to see so many mainstream news outlets give so much uncritical air time to a JFK assassination conspiracy story. Not sure what to make of it.

Landis said on CNN that he didn't drop the bullet on the stretcher but some type of table in the exam room.  For what that's worth.  That would make more sense to me than dropping it on the stretcher of the dying president.   He was adamant about hearing only three shots.  He doesn't seem to be insane or completely senile (as in Joe Biden senile).  The fact that he made no mention of the bullet six decades ago, however, is damning.  I don't buy that he wouldn't mention it because he was under stress.  He wrote a report.  Lots of WWII veterans swore they landed on the beach on D-day but it ain't so.