The Final Witness - Paul Landis

The Final Witness

By Paul Landis

  • Release Date: 2023-10-10
  • Genre: True Crime
Score: 4
4
From 59 Ratings

Description

Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the head by a rifle bullet. Confusion reigns.
Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK's and is at the president's limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president's casket on the flight back to Washington, DC; an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office.
What he saw is indelibly imprinted upon his psyche. He writes and files his report. And yet . . . Agent Landis is never called to testify to the Warren Commission. The one person who could have supplied key answers is never asked questions.
By mid-1964, the nightmares from Dallas remain, and he resigns. It isn't until the fiftieth anniversary that he begins to talk about it, and he reads his first books on the assassination.
Landis learns about the raging conspiracy theories—and realizes where they all go wrong.

Reviews

  • Fascinating look at history

    5
    By hugefan101010
    Really insightful look at the life of a man who saw and had a small part in one of the pivotal moments in history.
  • Not Believable

    1
    By Eyerish21
    My heart aches for Mr. Landis and the trauma he experienced witnessing the greatest crime of our lifetime. But it is impossible to believe that he not once in fifty plus years heard about the single bullet theory. I don’t care if you never read the bogus Warren Report or any of the thousands of books about the assassination that you never got wind of the single bullet theory. I have no doubt he had PTSD from this life changing event but to believe that he never knew about the single bullet theory is just not plausible. Very disappointed that this book just matter of factly tells us “oh yeah, I forgot to tell anyone I put the bullet on President Kennedy’s stretcher at Parkland.” I was anticipating much more from this book and I should have waited until it got down to the $1.99 bin on Apple Books.