Sixty Years After: The Disenchantment of the Magic Bullet Theory and the Threat it Represents

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66792977

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jfk-assassination-parkland-hospital-doctors-entrance-wound-two-gunmen-1234876218/

On the sixty year anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, the debate goes on and while many in the Establishment think the case is closed – as Gerald Posner would have it, the truth is most of the public doesn't buy it, and for good reason. While there are many misunderstandings and unfortunate sidetracks, as time marches on, more and more evidence and testimony emerges which casts the Warren Commission into doubt.

In this report, former Secret Service agent Paul Landis makes some fascinating admissions which throw the conventional narrative into question. The implications seem subtle at first but in reality they are earth shattering.

The conventional narrative regarding the bullets has never been convincing. Of the three shots, the first supposedly missed altogether and hit James Tague at the triple underpass, wounding his cheek.

A variant of this suggests that the bullet traversed Kennedy's neck (back to front) and then hit James Tague.

Otherwise the second bullet (assuming the first missed and injured Tague) is the magic bullet that also wounded Texas Governor John Connally in multiple places. The bullet found on Connally's gurney is said to have been the bullet even though its damage is not commensurate with all the wounds it is said to have caused – never mind the absurdity of it being found on the stretcher as it supposedly just 'fell out' of Connally.

The third bullet (according to the Warren Commission) was the fatal head shot which despite the evidence in the film they insist came from behind.

But Landis has revealed that he found the gurney or magic bullet in the back of the limousine and that he dropped it on the gurney – not on Connally's gurney, but the president's.

Some have long believed that the bullet was dropped by conspirators in order to connect the shooting with the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle found in the Book Depository – a poor rifle for the job with a defective scope, supposedly shot by Oswald – a mid-to-below average shooter. Remember, even world class snipers could not replicate the shooting, let alone with that defective gun, or in the less than six second window revealed by the Zapruder film – which at this point seems to have been tampered with, adding only more dimensions to this already impossible labyrinth.

The other rifles used in the assassination were not found or their ballistics investigated since the investigation had already made up its mind about Oswald and the Book Depository narrative and the questionable ballistics associated with it. They had their suspect and if what the Parkland doctors and others say is true – the Secret Service and FBI put pressure on people to keep silent and toe the line. In other words it wasn't just poor investigation – typified by police tendencies to hone in on a suspect and then quit investigating, no – this was a cover-up from the outset and Oswald was in fact the patsy just as he said.

But Oswald was dead and The Warren Commission's version was sold to the public and even though it has many doubters, the media and numerous Establishment-friendly or outright corrupt investigators have continued to sell this line to the public.

Then comes Paul Landis sixty years later – and wrecks the whole narrative. And with him the Parkland doctors who have testified that the neck wound was an entry wound – he was shot from the front and therefore not the Book Depository. Numerous witnesses testified to shooting coming from the so-called grassy knoll and the testimony of the doctors suggests this is the case. And with the testimony of the doctors and now the collapse of the Magic Bullet theory – the Warren Commission narrative collapses. Kennedy was murdered by multiple gunmen – it was by definition a conspiracy.

Obviously Landis has upset and angered many people as this effectively rekindles the debate. If the magic bullet was lodged in the seat, then it could not have done what the Warren Commission argued – nor could it have fallen out of Connally.

The primary question he has been asked is –why didn't he come forward earlier? His answers have been admittedly somewhat lame and yet the truth is (I think) rather simple.

It's connected to a simple question that's often been asked over the years– why haven't people come forward?

The answer is equally simple. They have.

Though the media won't report it, dozens of people have come forward and almost everyone who knew anything about these events and was set to report or testify has ended up dead. The trail of bodies is impressive, from eyewitnesses in Dealey Plaza, to gangsters, journalists, and others, the trail of death is an epic story in itself.

Landis is now an old man with nothing to lose. He has lived his life but has been continually haunted by that day sixty years ago. His testimony does not reveal what actually happened that day but it does put another nail in the Warren Commission's coffin and further demonstrates the fictitious nature of the report. That's the main takeaway from these recent revelations. There's more to debate and yet one thing is certain – the Warren Commission is discredited.

And as such it remains the most notorious unsolved murder in American history – and everything points to a cover-up and thus the greatest scandal in American history, one that could (and frankly should) bring down the entire edifice, exposing it all as one big lie.

This is also a critical point to understand. There are two major crimes – the assassination and the cover-up. The Warren Report was central to the latter. Its collapse means both questions are back on the table. Logic suggests the answer is really found in the cover-up – the actual details of the assassination are in reality, secondary. Solve the cover-up and you have the assassins or at least the architects of the crime – the actual gunmen are nonentities most likely connected to the culprits that many of us have always suspected – the CIA, the Mafia, and likely some Anti-Castro Cubans. Key players in the Secret Service and Pentagon played a part in the logistics of the assassination and the cover-up, but the key figure that orchestrated the investigation and thus hid the crime was the FBI's J Edgar Hoover.

Sadly in the era of Trump this issue has also become politicized and nowadays it's almost as if you're a Trumpite QAnon Flat-Earther if you raise this question. But don't be distracted by the media praetorians nor the Trumpite cult of buffoons. This is the seminal event regarding the American Deep State – the larger story reveals the entire American system to be a deception and rotten to its core and this truth transcends all the political boundaries that exist. No one can pin this on one party or group, nor does the reality legitimize the likes of Robert Kennedy Jr. and his vaccine theories. There are so many distractions – and some of them are deliberate. The great fear is that people will begin to understand the magnitude and profundity of this and what it means about the American system, the political order, Wall Street, and the war machine. It will belie today's narratives as well.

You would think people today would understand what happens when the social consensus breaks. Right-wing people tend to think merely in terms of liberal subversion. No, the public trust was shattered in the 1960's and 1970's – and the Kennedy Assassination was the opening chapter of this process. It led to social chaos and breakdown. Amazingly the United States survived this period and was able to re-cast itself in the 1980's – and by the 1990's no longer looked back. And yet the ghosts of this period still haunt American society and in fact the forces behind the evils of that time are alive and well and it would seem stronger than ever.

And yet we are once again in a period of chaos and broken consensus. The nation is in danger with its greatest perils to be found within. This is why the Establishment continues to push the official JFK narrative with such vigour. If this truth escapes and people tease out all its implications – it really would be something of a red pill moment calling so many basic assumptions into question. I celebrate that on the one hand and yet dread it on the other. It will create a vacuum and the thought of what might fill it is dreadful and perhaps a more awful thing to contemplate than the continuation of the present evil that is the American Empire.