The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years - Hardcover

Landis, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1641609443 ISBN 13: 9781641609449

Publisher: Chicago Review Press, 2023

Synopsis

Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the head by a rifle bullet. Confusion reigns.
Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK’s and is at the president’s limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president’s casket on the flight back to Washington, DC; an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the Oath of Office.
What he saw is indelibly imprinted upon his psyche. He writes and files his report. And yet . . . Agent Landis is never called by the Warren Commission. The one person who could have supplied key answers is never asked questions.
By mid-1964, the nightmares from Dallas remain, and he resigns. It isn’t until the fiftieth anniversary that he begins to talk about it, and he reads his first books on the assassination.
Landis learns about the raging conspiracy theories―and realizes where they all go wrong.

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About the Author

Paul Landis was a twenty-eight-year-old Secret Service agent in President Kennedy's Dallas motorcade on November 22, 1963. Though he was a witness to the events that day, he was never interviewed by the Warren Commission, and has kept his recollections private until now, including details surrounding a key piece of evidence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1641609443
• ISBN 13: 9781641609449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256