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Kennedy Was Killed by Accidental Secret Service Shot
Seen through the limousine’s windshield as it proceeds along Elm Street past the Texas School Book Depository, President John F. Kennedy appears to raise his hand toward his head within seconds of being fatally shot in Dallas, Nov 22, 1963. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy holds the President’s forearm in an effort to aid him. Gov. John Connally of Texas, who was in the front seat, was also shot. (James W. (Ike) Altgens/AP Photo)
ReelzChannel is getting back into the Kennedy family business, and once again likely to make some waves. In November, the network that aired the Emmy-winning 2011 miniseries “The Kennedys” will debut “JFK: The Smoking Gun,” a new documentary offering the theory that John F. Kennedy was killed, not by Lee Harvey Oswald’s rifle, but by the friendly-fire bullet of an inexperienced Secret Service agent. It is a theory that has been around awhile and has had a difficult track record and the news that Reelz is airing a show based on it has already ignited anger in this hotly disputed stretch of history.
But despite the controversy and the theory’s troubled past, Reelz is defending its decision to air the documentary.
“There’s been lots of theories about the grassy knoll and everything else, but a bullet came from behind the car [Kennedy was in],” ReelzChannel CEO Stan Hubbard tells Yahoo! TV of the evidence that will be presented in the Nov. 3 special. “The only possible gun that could have been in that area is that Secret Service gun. So the finding is that it was an accidental discharge. Nobody’s claiming anybody did anything wrong. But at the time, in the middle of the Cold War … remember, it wasn’t a time that the U.S. government would have liked to admit a botched security detail in the most important mission they had.”
According to Hubbard’s explanation of the docudrama, the timeline of the events of Nov. 22, 1963, will go something like this:
After Lee Harvey Oswald fired an initial shot at the Kennedy motorcade in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, a Secret Service agent named George Hickey responded. Hickey, an inexperienced agent who had never been on follow-up car duty, grabbed his AR-15 Secret Service rifle and, while standing in the back of the car that was behind the Kennedy vehicle in the motorcade, fired a shot, he hoped, towards the enemy fire. But the car he was riding in suddenly lurched forward, and, the theory suggests, Hickey’s hand faltered, sending his bullet towards the president’s head. Oswald had fired a second shot that also hit Kennedy, but it was not necessarily the shot that fatally wounded JFK, according to the theory.
While sure to provoke strong reactions when it airs during the lead-up to the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination, the theory is not a new one.
“The Smoking Gun” revolves around the work of author Bonar Menninger and detective-turned-author Colin McLaren. Menninger wrote the 1992 book “Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK,” which included the theory.
Presented by Menninger, the theory draws on the work of a Maryland ballistics expert named Howard Donahue, who for a 1967 CBS special re-created the three shots captured in the famous Zapruder film of the assassination. Donahue, who died in 1999, agreed with the Warren report conclusion that Oswald acted alone, but he also believed, until he died, that the shot that killed Kennedy came from “a position behind and to the left of the president,” he told the Baltimore Sun in 1977.
Menninger and McLaren told TV critics at the ReelzChannel Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills on Sunday that the “Smoking Gun” documentary will lay out, in scientific detail, the decades-old theory of Hickey’s accidental shooting of JFK, including information that the bullet sizes of Oswald’s and Hickey’s guns were different (and that the bullet in the fatal shot was too small to have come from Oswald’s gun). Pouring gasoline on the fires, the documentary will also allege that the Secret Service agents assigned to protect JFK had been drinking the night before the assassination, and that Robert Kennedy — JFK’s brother and the U.S. attorney general at the time — knew about the alleged Hickey shot and helped cover it up to shield the Secret Service.
More:
http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/reelzc…53275.html
Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-kennedy-was-killed-by-accidental-secret-service-shot
