The Review
The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After 60 Years, by Paul Landis, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2023, 240 pages, hard-cover.
Everything happened so fast. BAM! I heard the sound of a high-powered rifle being fired, coming from behind us, from over my right shoulder.
We are on page 156, having been transported in print to Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963. We are riding the rear of the right running board on a black Cadillac convertible, which is code-named Halfback. Our narrator at the time is a 28-year-old Secret Service agent situated just behind the limousine carrying the president of the United States and his wife, as well as the governor of Texas and his wife.
The next several seconds and what ensued changed the futures of many — and cost the life of John F. Kennedy. It also altered history. Endless speculation — about who and why and how — stimulated a wave of analyses, including hundreds of books, with more to come on this 60th anniversary of the tragic death.
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