JFK assassination nurse says she SAW the ‘pristine bullet’ Secret Service agent Paul Landis now claims he retrieved from limo and positioned on his stretcher – upending the ‘magic bullet’ concept

The prior eyewitness testimony of a nurse current within the emergency room after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot in 1963 appears to corroborate a former Secret Service agent’s bombshell new declare.

A number of interviews given by nurse Phyllis J. Corridor a decade in the past seem to again up former Secret Service agent Paul Landis’ declare, after she described seeing a bullet sitting on the mortally wounded president’s stretcher subsequent to his head. 

Landis, 88, broke his silence in an interview on Saturday, practically six a long time after Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, to share a declare that upends the notorious ‘magic bullet’ concept and raises the opportunity of a number of shooters.

In brief, he claimed to have picked up a virtually pristine fired bullet from the again seat of the limousine the place Kennedy was shot and positioned it on the president’s hospital stretcher to protect as proof.

That bullet would appear to be the one which the Warren Fee claimed was recovered from Texas Governor John Connally’s stretcher — the so-called ‘magic bullet’ that appeared practically intact regardless of the Fee’s concept that it struck each Kennedy and Connally.

A former Secret Service agent who was current at President John F. Kennedy’s assassination has come ahead with a brand new declare that casts doubt on the ‘magic bullet’ concept

A decade in the past, nurse Phyllis J. Corridor gave interviews that seem to again up Landis’ declare, after she described seeing a bullet sitting on the mortally wounded president’s stretcher

A number of interviews given by nurse Corridor in 2013 appear to corroborate Landis’ contemporary declare. 

‘On the cart, midway between the earlobe and the shoulder, there was a bullet laying virtually perpendicular there, however I’ve not seen an image of that bullet ever,’ she informed The Telegraph virtually 10 years in the past. 

Individually, she informed the Sunday Mirror: ‘I might see a bullet lodged between his ear and his shoulder. It was pointed at its tip and confirmed no indicators of injury. I bear in mind taking a look at it – there was no blunting of the bullet or scarring across the shell from the place it had been fired.

‘I might had an excessive amount of expertise working with gunshot wounds however I had by no means seen something like this earlier than.

‘It was about one-and-a-half inches lengthy – nothing just like the bullets that had been later produced.

‘It was taken away however by no means have I seen it offered in proof or heard what occurred to it. It stays a thriller.’

In reality, her description of the thriller bullet practically completely matches the primary piece of proof logged by the FBI underneath the tag quantity ‘C1’ — the bullet supposedly recovered from Connally’s stretcher after falling from a wound on his leg.

It additionally affords some extent of corroboration to the declare of Landis, who says that he believes the bullet was undercharged and fell from a shallow wound in Kennedy’s again onto the limo seat — a far cry from the two-person through-and-through wounds proposed by the Warren Fee.

Paul Landis, 88, broke his silence on Saturday, practically 60 years after Kennedy was shot lifeless in a motorcade passing by Dallas on November 22, 1963

The bullet described by Corridor  matches the primary piece of proof logged by the FBI underneath the tag quantity ‘C1’ (seen above) — the bullet supposedly recovered from Connally’s stretcher after putting each him and Kennedy and falling from a wound on Connally’s leg

Different bullet fragments recovered from the entrance of the limousine (left and proper) confirmed considerably extra injury than the so-called ‘magic bullet’

One in every of three expended rifle shell casings recovered from the sixth ground of the Texas College Guide Depository constructing

Corridor brazenly admits that she personally believes a number of gunmen, and in addition waited a long time to return ahead together with her story, explaining that she feared harassment and retaliation.

She was not on the checklist of ER personnel who attended Kennedy, as a result of she was not assigned to the emergency room, explaining that she was visiting a good friend in triage when she was pulled into to help the futile makes an attempt to save lots of the president’s life.

Makes an attempt by DailyMail.com to achieve Corridor, who would now be 88, had been unsuccessful on Tuesday.

In line with the official discovering of the Warren Commission, Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, who fired three photographs on the motorcade from the sixth ground of the Texas College Guide Depository constructing with a 6.5-millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano rifle.

In line with the report, one of many photographs missed the motorcade, one other was the ‘magic bullet’ that struck each Kennedy and Connally, and the ultimate spherical fatally struck Kennedy within the head. 

However the recollection Landis newly shared with the New York Times throws that account, lengthy doubted by skeptics, into chaos, and suggests Oswald didn’t act alone.

On November 22, 1963, Landis was a younger Secret Service agent assigned to guard First Woman Jaqueline Kennedy, who was seated beside the president within the motorcade.

In his new account, he stated that within the chaos following the taking pictures, he picked up a virtually pristine bullet sitting on the highest of the again seat of the open limousine to protect it as proof.

It was simply behind the place Kennedy was sitting when he was killed, he says. Landis says he took the projectile and positioned it on the president’s hospital stretcher to protect it for the post-mortem investigators.

Landis speculated the bullet might have rolled onto Connally’s stretcher from Kennedy’s whereas they had been subsequent to one another, giving rise to the official report of the place it was discovered.

It is also doable that the hospital staffer who discovered the bullet and handed it over to the Secret Service misidentified which stretcher it was from, or that his account was mangled by investigators.

It has lengthy been often called the ‘magic bullet’ — the bullet that supposedly handed by Kennedy’s neck from the rear, then entered Connally’s proper shoulder, struck his rib, exited underneath his proper nipple, handed by his proper wrist and hit his left thigh. 

However Landis’ assertion that the bullet had truly fallen from a shallow wound in Kennedy in his Cadillac might lay waste to the magic bullet concept – and bolster the declare that Oswald didn’t function alone on the day of the homicide.

The bullet, which had been fired however was practically totally intact, was positively matched to Oswald’s Mannlicher-Carcano by ballistics evaluation. 

The so-called magic bullet was practically pristine, and matched the rifling on the 6.5-millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano rifle owned by Oswald, and located contained in the Guide Depository

Lee Harvey Oswald is proven after his arrest right here on November 22, 1963. He was shot lifeless by Jack Ruby two days later as he was being transferred from Police Headquarters to jail

Kennedy was sitting straight behind Texas Governor John Connally within the limousine when each had been struck by gunshots. A ‘magic bullet’ has lengthy been stated to have struck each males

In line with the Warren Fee, Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, who fired three photographs from the sixth ground of the Texas College Guide Depository

But when Landis’ declare is true, that means the bullet tagged as proof merchandise ‘C1’ was not accountable for the accidents to Connolly, and there was no so-called ‘magic bullet’ — bolstering the declare that Oswald didn’t function alone on the day of the homicide.

James Robenalt, an lawyer and historian who labored with Landis on a ebook he plans to launch in October, believes the brand new account suggests the opportunity of a number of shooters. 

‘If what he says is true, which I are inclined to imagine, it’s prone to reopen the query of a second shooter, if not much more,’ Robenalt informed the Occasions. 

‘If the bullet we all know because the magic or pristine bullet stopped in President Kennedy’s again, it implies that the central thesis of the Warren Report, the single-bullet concept, is incorrect.’ 

Robenalt defined in separate essay for Vanity Fair on Saturday: ‘First, if the ‘pristine’ bullet didn’t journey by each Kennedy and Connally, someway ending up on Connally’s stretcher, then it stands to motive that Connally may need truly been hit by a separate bullet, coming from above and to the rear.

‘The FBI recreation means that Oswald wouldn’t have had sufficient time to get off two separate photographs so rapidly as to hit Connally after wounding the president within the again.’

The notorious Zapruder movie exhibits that there was roughly a second between the bodily reactions of Kennedy and Connally to being shot. 

FBI specialists assessed that it might take Oswald a minimal of two.3 seconds to fireside, work the rifle’s bolt motion, purpose, and hearth one other shot.

The shorter hole between Kennedy and Connally’s reactions has lengthy been defined as because of a single bullet putting each males, with Connally delayed barely in realizing he’d been shot. 

Landis, entrance in sun shades, is seen with President Kennedy and First Woman Jackie Kennedy earlier on November 22, 1963, the day of the assassination

Landis (circled) is seen trying over his proper shoulder after listening to a gunshot. Within the limousine, Kennedy will be seen hunched over, clutching his neck, second earlier than one other bullet ripped by his head and killed him

The limousine carrying mortally wounded JFK races towards the hospital seconds after he was shot in Dallas. Secret Service agent Clinton Hill is driving on the again of the automotive. Hill’s proper knee is close to the crease within the high of the rear limo seat the place Landis says he discovered the bullet

Bystanders take cowl on the grassy knoll and the motorcade escort speeds away moments after sniper bullets ended President Kennedy’s life. The Triple Underpass is seen background

Landis’ story additionally raises disturbing questions on easy methods to account for Kennedy’s wounds.

Kennedy’s post-mortem report indicated the next bullet wounds: a small neat one in his again, across the space of his proper scapula; a small neat one within the entrance middle of his throat; a small neat one within the rear proper of his cranium; and a large, jagged exit wound in the correct entrance of his cranium. 

The bullet gap in his higher proper again had lengthy been defined because the entry level for a bullet that then exited the entrance center of Kennedy’s throat. 

(The throat wound was expanded by ER medical doctors for an emergency tracheotomy, and their description of the unique wound as ‘a number of millimeters in diameter’ was cited by the post-mortem. Nurse Corridor recalled the throat wound as a bigger exit wound.)

But when the bullet wound to his again, which post-mortem report stated couldn’t be deeply probed to hint the bullet’s path, was brought on by an undercharged bullet that then fell again onto the limousine seat, then the place did the throat wound come from?

Robenalt raises the haunting chance that the throat wound was truly an entry level, as ER medical doctors initially suspected, saying the bullet may need fragmented on hitting Kennedy’s backbone.

He famous that post-mortem X-ray technician Jerrol F. Custer testified in 1997 that he had seen proof of metallic shards close to Kennedy’s higher backbone, however that the X-ray slide was certainly one of three lacking from the Nationwide Archives.

If a bullet entered Kennedy’s throat from the entrance, it couldn’t have been fired by Oswald from the Guide Depository, which was straight behind the motorcade on the time of the assassination. 

The potential for a number of shooters has been a well-liked concept because the instant aftermath of the assassination, with many pointing to the so-called ‘grassy knoll’ space to the correct of the motorcade route.

As effectively, the ‘Triple Underpass’ in entrance of the motorcade would have provided an elevated sniper place, and different tall buildings surrounded the ebook depository to the rear of the motorcade. 

Robenalt acknowledged in Vainness Truthful that ‘neither this text nor Landis’s ebook has the perception or forensic experience to hazard any new conclusions’ a few second shooter. 

‘Others should analyze the proof in full to see the place it now leads,’ he added.