Weekend Series on Crime History: The JFK Assassination
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Dallas Morning News Editorial Fifty years is a relative blip on the grand timeline, barely a rounding error between your genesis point and the end of life as we know it. Yet in human terms, 50 years is longer than many life spans, past and present. In Dallas terms, 50 years is five decades of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As the U.S. remembers the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination Friday, there is no shortage of conspiracy theories. Depending on whom you ask, JFK was killed by the CIA, the mafia, Cuban exile groups, the FBI, southern segregationists or the Soviet Union. The way author and attorney Craig Zirbel sees…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com William Turner isn’t just any conspiracy theorist. An FBI agent from 1951 to 1961, Turner was working as a journalist when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He was a trained investigator and wanted to learn more about the breakdown in security that November day in 1963, CBS 13 reports. During his investigation,…
Stee Neavling ticklethewire.com Jim Graham was planting a Russian olive tree outside his suburban Kansas City home when the phone call of his life came, the Kansas City Star reports. President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated, and the FBI wanted Graham, who was an agent, to help investigate. So he did. But he doesn’t…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When JFK was assassinated, the Secret Service was in store for major changes. The Warren Commission, which was formed to investigate the Nov. 22 shooting, found what it called “certain shortcomings and lapses from high standards which the Commission believes should prevail in the field of Presidential protection.” The ill-prepared Secret Service,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Clint Hill remembers running toward the back of the limousine where President John F. Kennedy was just shot. Hill was a Secret Service agent who was in the motorcade surrounding the president and first lady on Nov. 22, 1963. “I think about it every day,” Hill told a crowd Tuesday night at…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new documentary, “JFK: The Smoking Gun,” explores the theory that an under-qualified Secret Service agent delivered the shot that killed President John F. Kennedy, the Toronto reports. The documentary, which aired Sunday on Discovery, is based on the work of retired Australian police detective Colin McLaren, who said, “This is not…