The Final Witness A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years

by Landis, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781641609449
• ISBN10: 1641609443
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-10-10
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Paul Landis was a twenty-eight-year-old Secret Service agent in President Kennedy’s Dallas motorcade on November 22, 1963. Though he was a witness to the events that day, he was never interviewed by the Warren Commission, and has kept his recollections private until now, including details surrounding a key piece of evidence.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Resignation and Reflection
2. All My Eggs
3. The Queen City
4. Gettysburg and Protection
5. Secret Service School and White House Detail
6. My Debut
7. Ravello, Italy
8. Lace, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Loss of Patrick
9. Greece
10. Texas
11. Parkland
12. Back in Washington, DC
13. On the Move, Life After Death, or, Buried but Not Forgotten
Epilogue