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7/10
Bolsters The Possibility Of A Gross Accidental Shot
AudioFileZ1 July 2016
Warning: Spoilers
You don't have to believe this that JFK actually received the fatal shot as a sheer freak mishap to watch this documentary. It's, likely, as good as any of the many theories none of which can be proved this many years later. In just about 40-minutes this film does a credible job of pushing forward the often talked about possibility that JFK was killed by someone other than Lee Harvey Oswald. The film does a very plausible job of eliminating Oswald as the kill shot perpetrator even as it doesn't exonerate him from being involved.

JFK's Secret Killer: The Evidence is an Australian production. It centers around retired master detective Colin McLaren's recent forensic investigation. Even as this investigation occurs nearly 50-years on it does a credible job with an extreme cold case by using all available confirmed testimonies, many discounted or ignored by The Warren Commission. While McLaren believe the Warren Commission did get the single bullet theory correct, he further shows the committee decided to go for a whitewash by both actions and in actions. McLaren brings many of these covered over testimonies to the front. He uses a fair bit of the more telling 1997 testimonies to further his belief that JFK wasn't actually killed by Oswald, but by a freak accidental shooting by a secret service agent named Hickey.

I recommend all parties who have doubts over Oswald as being the murderer of JFK. You don't have to believe what is exposed here to, at the least, believe there was another shooter. As for who that shooter was this film does a good job in presenting a very possible scenario. We'll never know the real story behind the death of JFK. It's truly impossible at this late date, but I wasn't at all a believer in the possibility of the Secret Service playing this role. I am now even as I'm far from certain. What I am more certain about is that Oswald, even if he attempted to kill JFK, was not the actual assassin.
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3/10
Deliberate mystery
kennethraine2 June 2017
We will know the true story behind this eternal puzzle, when? 2038 75 years after the event. If they don't know, what is there to reveal? I can smell the cover up on this treatment. A rumour re the CIA and JFK's bodyguards may have some credibility, its nothing to do with this version of events. Had it not been for the Abraham Zapruda tape, it would have been easier to cover up. As it was, and still is, the film continues to defy the explanation of a lone shooter. The final, awful, disgusting shot, that jerked his head backwards, propelling a piece of his skull towards the rear of the car, would appear to be a shot taken from the front, and to the right, and somewhat level, or only slightly above the vehicle containing JFK. Why would all the obvious conclusions appear to have a diametrically opposite explanation, and that explanation the one the authorities seem to favour? Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby on my fifteenth birthday in 1963. So like a host of people out there, I've never accepted the standard explanations. Actually I think I've worked the whole thing out, but cannot reveal it here. Lets just say justice was done, not in the usual way, and if you can wait till 2038[ I will be 90yrs old if I make it], you'll know it too.
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