A JFK expert has highlighted two pieces of evidence pointing to more than one shooter that were not debunked by last week’s assassination files release.
The documents released by the Trump administration fail to explain how Lee Harvey Oswald was able to strike the moving president in the head from six floors up 80 to 100 yards away, JFK scholar Peter Lucas wrote in the Boston Herald.
They also fail to explain why footage of the killing shows Kennedy’s head snapping backwards as if he had been shot from the front – even though Oswald was to his rear, aiming from the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository in Dallas.
‘There had to be another shooter, possibly firing from the grassy knoll to the right of the Kennedy motorcade,’ Lucas wrote.
‘One of the shots in the film of the assassination has Kennedy’s head going backwards as though shot from the front.’
One of the most popular theories asserts there was a second gunman who fired shots at JFK from a now-iconic ‘grassy knoll’ to the right of his car as it passed by.
No definitive proof of that claim has ever been shared, although sleuths have shared grainy grabs over the year that they’ve suggested shows a second shooter.
More than 63,000 pages of records related to the November 1963 assassination of President Kennedy were released Tuesday following an order by President Donald Trump, many without the redactions that had confounded historians for years and helped fuel conspiracy theories.
The US National Archives and Records Administration posted to its website roughly 2,200 files containing the documents.
They included typewritten reports and handwritten notes spanning decades, including details of a top CIA agent who claimed the deep state was responsible, Oswald being a ‘poor shot’ and that Secret Service had been warned Kennedy would be killed in August, three months before the murder.
The JFK assassination files released by the Trump administration gave curious readers more details into Cold War-era covert US operations than any credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK.
The vast majority of the National Archives’ more than 6 million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts related to the assassination have previously been released.
Some were not directly related to the assassination but rather dealt with covert CIA operations, particularly in Cuba.
And nothing in the first documents examined undercut the conclusion that Kennedy assassin Oswald was the lone gunman in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
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