A JFK expert has highlighted two pieces of evidence pointing to more than one shooter that were not debunked by last week’s assassination files release.
The documents released by the Trump administration fail to explain how Lee Harvey Oswald was able to strike the moving president in the head from six floors up 80 to 100 yards away, JFK scholar Peter Lucas wrote in the Boston Herald.
They also fail to explain why footage of the killing shows Kennedy’s head snapping backwards as if he had been shot from the front – even though Oswald was to his rear, aiming from the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository in Dallas.
‘There had to be another shooter, possibly firing from the grassy knoll to the right of the Kennedy motorcade,’ Lucas wrote.
‘One of the shots in the film of the assassination has Kennedy’s head going backwards as though shot from the front.’
One of the most popular theories asserts there was a second gunman who fired shots at JFK from a now-iconic ‘grassy knoll’ to the right of his car as it passed by.
No definitive proof of that claim has ever been shared, although sleuths have shared grainy grabs over the year that they’ve suggested shows a second shooter.