Reflections from the Secret Service agent who leaped onto JFK’s car
“He (driver Bill Greer) began to accelerate slightly. And just as he began to get to the original speed of 11, 12 miles per hour, I heard a noise from my right rear — an explosive sound. I had been scanning to the left side of the streets; there were a few people in the grassy area. And as I heard that explosive noise, my scan took me across the presidential vehicle moving to my right. When I did so, I saw the president grab his throat, lurch to his left, and I knew that something had happened. I jumped off the follow up car and ran toward the presidential vehicle. During that run, apparently there was another shot, which I did not hear. Just before I reached the presidential vehicle, a third shot rang out. I heard it and I felt it because it hit the president in the head above the right ear to the rear portion of his head.
Brain matter and blood spewed out of that wound and I was covered with it as was the car. Mrs. Kennedy at that time came out on the back of the trunk of the car attempting to retrieve something that had come off the president’s head, which was the right rear. She didn’t know I was there. I did the best I could to place her into the back seat, got her into the back seat. The president fell over into her lap. His head was exposed. I could see his eyes were fixed. The upper right portion of his head was split open. It looked like somebody had taken a spoon or something and removed brain matter and spread it all around the back of the car, along with blood, all over Mrs. Kennedy and everybody else. So I placed myself up as high as I could above them to prevent anybody from shooting any more into the car. The driver accelerated and we sped off.”
All that happened in six seconds.
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Trying to retrieve something? I suspect she was scared to death and just trying to get away.
Blake on November 24, 2012 at 7:20 PM
Oswald was the first committed Marxist to attempt to damage the US but sadly not the last or the most effective .
DeweyWins on November 24, 2012 at 7:25 PM
There was another book written by a retiring Secret Service agent about the Reagan assassination attempt. He blamed the press. It was very revealing. The book was just out about 2-3 years ago but I just googled/Binged it and don’t see it. I think it was reviewed here or somewhere.
Don’t remember the author’s name or the name of the book. He was black. The book may have been more about reflection’s on his life and not all about Reagan… but anyway… he blamed that shooting directly on the press. He said all of the press there at the time had to have known that Hinckley was not one of them. He was standing right there in the middle of the press and none of them did a thing. he said the Secret Service had given a lot of freedom, at the time, to the press. They also were familiar with each other. But they allowed a stranger, who obviously was out of place, to walk up and stand in the midst of the press and none of them ever questioned it.
I did not read the book only the piece written about it and the interview by the agent. He stated it in the interview.
If somebody knows of that book and the Secret Service agent who wrote that, please link it.
JellyToast on November 24, 2012 at 7:54 PM
This is one of many reasons why the Warren Commission was a disgrace. The assassination was so important, the upper echelons of this nation decided to bypass normal legal process and wing it – for the ‘good’ of the nation.
If the murder was so important these big shots had to create their very own laws, why was the murder not important enough to take the testimony of every single witness on the scene.
Not that it mattered so much, because of whatever evidence they uncovered, only that which the commission felt like revealing was revealed. The rest was buried from the public, until the generations who would remember the murder were all dead.
Many think the decline of America began in the last decade, but it began a lot earlier. The Warren Commission should not have happened, but it did, and the MSM told the public it was good that the wise elders, the unelected commission, had a private trial and jury and buried the evidence.
Obama routinely ignores the law. Bush ignored that which he disliked. But the whole nation, and succeeding generations had been taught that that the law may be ignored, if the big shots and the press agree it is for the best
entagor on November 24, 2012 at 8:16 PM
So he believed at that moment that the shooter was on the grassy knoll in front and not in the Texas Book Repository building behind his vehicle!
Interesting!
honsy on November 24, 2012 at 8:19 PM
He probably paid with his own money for the research that said global warming was going to be so disastrous.
Then he probably invested his money in Cap and Trade schemes that went bust, due to eco fraud.
Then…this “suicide on a grand scale” sounds a little like he should spend time with a therapist, it’s paranoia, worrying about something you cannot change is a sickness.
Suicide on a grand scale is the social life of his own culture down the tubes, they are not passing on good culture to the children, probably because of a bias against privilege and class, and of course we know they are giving visitors more rights than their own culture claims.
There is a lot more to worry about than carbon dioxide in the air. Trees use CO2, he should start planting trees. He probably lost all his money in a get rich quick scheme with Al Gore. Al made the right bets for himself, and kept all the money pretending to absolve people of their CO2 sin for cash.
That from the only man on earth that couldn’t love Diana.
Fleuries on November 24, 2012 at 8:27 PM
The other thread called…
CurtZHP on November 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM
Fleuries on November 24, 2012 at 8:27 PM
Wrong thread, mon ami. The future Charles The Turd is elsewhere being discussed.
honsy on November 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM
Whenever I’ve seen a photo of Earl Warren or a photo of Benedict Roberts it has given me a creepy feeling. Even before the Benedict’s Obamacare sellout.
It’s their Peanut-Cartereque forced grins, probably.
viking01 on November 24, 2012 at 8:32 PM
Speaking of the attempt on Reagan: The photos taken of Reagan approaching the car from towards the front of the limousine show that those of the press area where Hinckley was standing was a rather small group which had been in place awhile. Thus I would concur with the agent’s theory having some merit. The WH press corps likely see each other day after day and would notice some stranger lurking without camera, notepad or microphone and well out of place.
viking01 on November 24, 2012 at 8:41 PM
Mrs. Kennedy was reaching over the back seat, in an effort to retrieve part of the president’s skull, which was sliding off the the rear of the boot. Purely instinctive, I’m sure.
OldEnglish on November 24, 2012 at 8:57 PM
For all you eagle eyes. What the heck is between the President’s limo and the back of the Ford /Dodge directly ahead?
arnold ziffel on November 24, 2012 at 8:59 PM
He wasn’t the first look into the FDR regime.
Slowburn on November 24, 2012 at 9:08 PM
An agent, running in crouched position, towards the president’s car.
OldEnglish on November 24, 2012 at 9:09 PM
And, McCarthy was right!
OldEnglish on November 24, 2012 at 9:10 PM
thx OE. To me it looked like the darted bear falling from a tree on youtube.
arnold ziffel on November 24, 2012 at 9:34 PM
Haha, the resemblance is uncanny!
OldEnglish on November 24, 2012 at 9:46 PM
Anybody who watched the Zapruder film can see the fatal shot came from the front.
NeoKong on November 24, 2012 at 10:04 PM
No, she’s going after part of the brain and crawls back in the car once she gets it. You can see that in the Z film. She said to the Conallys “My God. I’ve got his brains in my hand!”. I believe she gave the fragment to an ER doctor.
whatcat on November 24, 2012 at 10:07 PM