The JFK assassination involved two shooters, a sensational update from a Donald Trump backed-inquiry boss has claimed. Anna Paulina Luna, the President’s new head of a congressional task force looking at exposing “federal secrets”, said she believes there were “two shooters” in the killing of John F. Kennedy in 1963.
His assassination in Dallas is one of the most controversial episodes in modern American history, with polls consistently saying many if not most Americans do not believe the official explanation of his killing. That official finding, in 1964, stated that there was one shooter.
Critics at the time the commission was held said it was not possible for one bullet to hit both Kennedy in the neck and Texas governor John B. Connally in the back and therefore argued two shooters carried out the attack, the Associated Press reported at the time of the report. Yet Republican Trump ally Anna Paulina Luna said based on what she’s “been seeing so far,” the initial government hearing was “faulty” in the “single-bullet theory.”
“I believe that there were two shooters,” she said, without providing any evidence for her assessment. The Warren Commission spent more than a year investigating the JFK assassination. It concluded Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, who acted alone.
“There’s been conflicting evidence, and I think that even the FBI at the time reported some anomalies in the initial autopsy at Bethesda, Maryland,” said Anna Paulina Luna.
“All of those, though, seem to have been rinsed and repeated in the media to push a certain narrative that we don’t agree with,” the congresswoman argued. Supporters of the two-shooter theory cite eyewitness accounts as well as forensic evidence, and government documents they say suggest gunfire came from a grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza – not solely the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald was stationed.
In addition, some witnesses, including law enforcement officers, claimed that they heard shots from the front of Kennedy’s motorcade. The shooting is one of the most discussed episodes in modern American history.
Declassified FBI documents also point to fascinating local links here in the UK. They stated an anonymous tip-off was made just minutes before the assassination to a senior reporter of Cambridge News, CambridgeshireLive’s sister print newspaper. They were encouraged to call the American Embassy in London for “some big news” before the line went dead.
Trump’s new department has been set up to look into the assassinations of JFK, Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But its scope is very large. It will also investigate the Jeffrey Epstein client list, the origins of COVID-19, Unlicensed Assistive Personnel and the 911 files. Those behind it say it will begin with a “thorough investigation” of JFK’s November 1963 shooting death in Dallas, Texas. Hearings are expected to begin in March.
Trump ordered the declassification and release of secret files on the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK last month.