In a staggering deathbed confession, a 60 year mystery has apparently been solved as a French man admitted that he was the ‘second gunman’ involved in the assassination of President John F Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
Many conspiracy theorists have for years believed there was a second attacker involved in the death of the US President, who was shot dead while riding in an open top car through Dallas, Texas.
Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested shortly after the death of the 35th president, and shot dead by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner with ties to the Mafia, in a police station the next day.
However, conspiracy theories have abounded ever since. Those who believed there was more behind the attack that met the eye have spent hours poring over video footage from the day, and many of focused on the ‘man on the grassy knoll’, holding a black umbrella.
Now, two new eyewitness accounts appear to give more precedence to the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald did not work alone.
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There were also reports of witnesses claimed on television or radio to have heard gunfire not coming from the building, but from that famous grassy knoll opposite.
The second shooter theory also emerged due to one theory about a ‘magic bullet’ which reportedly hit JFK, and then changed direction to hit Governor Connally who was also in the car at the time. Connally always maintained he had been hit by a different bullet.
A number of hypotheses have been put forward over who the ‘second shooter’ was, and in a new book by French journalist Cédric Meletta, he revealed the testimony of Henri Pugibet who claimed , on his deathbed, to have been involved in the assassination, reports soirmag.
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He confided in his cousin that he had was the French hitman known as ‘Frenchy’, whose presence in Dallas on November 22, 1963 was noted on several official reports.
Pugibet was the grandson of a Frenchman who made his fortune in Mexico and was the son of a tobacco magnate. He was a self-styled businessman with six children from two marriages. He collaborated with the Nazis during the Occupation in France and then became a spy, a CIA agent recruited by Allan Dulles, the agency’s director.
His actions have been the subject of a considerable number of reports and investigations in the intelligence community, both American and French.
On that fateful day, Pugibet was reportedly picked up by car at his hotel in Dallas and dropped off near a car park behind the grassy knoll. He apparently then unlocked the boot of a car, took out a ridle and positioned himself behind a fence. He then ‘he lined Kennedy up in the head and fired’ before walking away nonchalantly.
Pugibet however was ‘poorly paid’ for his part, and ended his life destitute. His family now reportedly want the truth to come out.
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Over the years, numerous theories have been put forward to try and discover the identity of the second shooter.
A coup by the KGB or Fidel Castro’s Cubans at the height of the Cold War, a coup by the anti-Castro group in Miami, in cahoots with the mafia and a move by the ultra-right eager to start the war in Vietnam have all been suggested.
The CIA is also theorised by some to have been involved, whose powers had been curtailed by the President and whose director had been sacked. The agency reportedly also held a grudge against Kennedy for his lack of support during the disastrous Bay of Pigs operation.
Conspiracy theorists have also questioned the curious lapses in the investigation, bizarre procedures during the autopsy of the body, the rather vague location of the fatal wounds in the official report by federal agencies.
Numerous enquiries and attempts to reopen the case have ensued since, including ones against the mafia, anti-Castro elements and even the CIA. In 1968, Clay Shaw, a Louisiana businessman, was even convicted of being involved in the death.
However, the prosecutor’s case was dismissed and the accuser, Jim Garrison, was convicted of harassment.
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