The One-Armed Man on the Grassy knoll

Nov. 22, 1963 JFK arrived at Dallas’ Love Field from Fort Worth at 11:37a.m. He was accompanied by his wife Jackie Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, and Texas governor John Connally. At 12:30 p.m. the open car passed by Dealy Plaza moving West on Elm. As the president passed gun shots rang out. Both Kennedy and Connally were wounded, but only Kennedy’s were fatal. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. At 1:12p.m. police discovered a barricade of boxes, three spent bullet cartridges, and a paper bag in the southeast corner window a

The term “Grassy Knoll” was coined by Merriman Smith of United Press International when he reported in a dispatch, “some of the Secret Service agents thought the gunfire was from an automatic weapon fired to the right rear of the President’s car, probably from a grassy knoll which police rushed.” After this other newscasts started to use this term (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/gk_name.htm). This knoll to which Smith referred was rushed by civilians and law enforcement post asasination. The grassy knoll was not initially suspected as a source of shots. Only when the Warren Commission demonstrated that a hole through the windshield could only have been made from the inside (probably by a lead fragment from the fatal shot), and released Sam Holland’s testimony did attention shit to the grassy knoll (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/organ3.htm).

Seven days later

Some topics in this essay:
Kennedy Connally, Secret Service, Robert Fraizer, Warren Commission, Harvey Oswald, John Kennedy, Abraham Zapruder, President Bush, Sam Holland’s, West Elm, warren commission, grassy knoll, 3 shots, found rifle, book depository, john kennedy, sixth floor,