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The Accidental Victim: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Real Target in Dallas

James Reston Jr.

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THE ACCIDENTAL VICTIM: JFK, LEE HARVEY OSWALD, AND THE REAL TARGET IN DALLAS puts forth the startling theory that Texas governor John Connally, not President Kennedy, was the actual target of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on that tragic day fifty years ago.

After Oswald attempted to defect to the Soviet Union upon his release from military service, he learned that his discharge had been changed from honorable to undesirable without a proper hearing. Oswald protested this unfairness directly to his fellow Texan John Connally, then Secretary of Navy. In February 1962 he received a classic bureaucratic brush-off; the boilerplate arrived in a campaign envelope bearing the smiling face of the gubernatorial candidate.

Saddled with an undesirable discharge, unable to find work in Texas, Oswald developed an obsessive grudge against Connally, Reston posits. Marina Oswald, Lee Harvey’s wife, testified three times that Connally was her husband’s target. Several important members of the Dallas Russian émigré community also spoke of the grudge. So why did the Warren Commission chose to ignore this evidence? It was political, Reston asserts; the Commission felt it could not sell the idea of President Kennedy being an accidental victim in Dallas.

Along with proof of Oswald’s animus toward Connally, Reston also presents ample evidence revealing that the back brace worn by President Kennedy contributed to his death. After Oswald’s first bullet passed through the president’s neck and into the back of Governor Connally, the president’s back brace held Kennedy upright and virtually stationary in the presidential limousine, while Connally writhed in pain and fell into his wife’s lap. As the famous Zapruder film shows, President Kennedy’s rigid posture lasted five full seconds, allowing Oswald to reload and fire a second time. That second shot killed the president immediately.

Format: ebook

Release: September 01, 2013

The Accidental Victim: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Real Target in Dallas

James Reston Jr.

0/5 ( ratings)

THE ACCIDENTAL VICTIM: JFK, LEE HARVEY OSWALD, AND THE REAL TARGET IN DALLAS puts forth the startling theory that Texas governor John Connally, not President Kennedy, was the actual target of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on that tragic day fifty years ago.

After Oswald attempted to defect to the Soviet Union upon his release from military service, he learned that his discharge had been changed from honorable to undesirable without a proper hearing. Oswald protested this unfairness directly to his fellow Texan John Connally, then Secretary of Navy. In February 1962 he received a classic bureaucratic brush-off; the boilerplate arrived in a campaign envelope bearing the smiling face of the gubernatorial candidate.

Saddled with an undesirable discharge, unable to find work in Texas, Oswald developed an obsessive grudge against Connally, Reston posits. Marina Oswald, Lee Harvey’s wife, testified three times that Connally was her husband’s target. Several important members of the Dallas Russian émigré community also spoke of the grudge. So why did the Warren Commission chose to ignore this evidence? It was political, Reston asserts; the Commission felt it could not sell the idea of President Kennedy being an accidental victim in Dallas.

Along with proof of Oswald’s animus toward Connally, Reston also presents ample evidence revealing that the back brace worn by President Kennedy contributed to his death. After Oswald’s first bullet passed through the president’s neck and into the back of Governor Connally, the president’s back brace held Kennedy upright and virtually stationary in the presidential limousine, while Connally writhed in pain and fell into his wife’s lap. As the famous Zapruder film shows, President Kennedy’s rigid posture lasted five full seconds, allowing Oswald to reload and fire a second time. That second shot killed the president immediately.

Format: ebook

Release: September 01, 2013

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