The Murder of President Kennedy : Eyewitness Account

Brian Edwards, co-author of Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President Kennedy, speaks at the Allen Public Library.
In 2017, Edwards testified as an expert witness for the defense in a two-day mock trial of Lee Harvey Oswald at the South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas. In 2020, he was a consultant and appeared in Oliver Stone’s 4-hour documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, in which he discussed the weapons allegedly used by Lee Oswald.

His latest book, Admitted Assassin will be published later this month.

From 1986 to 1996, Mr. Edwards served with the Lawrence Police Department’s elite counter-assault team. In 1998, Edwards earned a master’s degree in criminal justice from Washburn University and served as an adjunct instructor in the department until 2005.

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Beverly Oliver sang for Jack Ruby.

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[stephenmccandless]

Being 14 at that time, it had a life long effect on me. I have been a serious history fanatic until this day...I cannot begin to explain what I have learned, but we are in the most TROUBLE I have seen in 74 years !!! I SPENT YEARS IN THE SERVICE, and this time is MUCH more dire, and does not even slightly compare to the trouble we are in right NOW.

[pswynne]

I was a Junior in High School in 1963. I dreamed a few days before President Kennedy actually died that he had been shot. It was so real to me that when I got up that morning, I ask my Great Aunt (who raised me) if she had heard anything about President Kennedy being shot, and of course she had not and I DO remember where I was when I heard that he had been killed. (unlike George Herbert Walker Bush) (He was in Dallas) I was in Study Hall in the Library at school when it was announced on the PA System. I was a very naïve 17year old and scared to death. I wanted to warn someone, but WHO and they would have never believed me anyway. I cried for weeks!!

[joycepelletier]

I was only a child at the time, but I remember my mother and Nana crying listening to the TV.
Over the past 3 or 4 years I've viewed several videos surrounding JFK's death. Your view makes total sense! Thank you for your diligence, and persistence.

[larryspiller]

I wasn't a combat veteran period. We did have training in the Combat Engineers on how to set up different ambushes. A curve in the road, an obstacle, reduced speed of the target, U shaped, L shaped ambushes and so on. Generate confusion followed by violent destruction of the enemy. Our routes of escape or departure. JFK's motorcade route was perfect for an ambush as we trained. The motorcade had no choice but to go through it. Under fire at that. The ambushers got away as they trained to. Difference was we were in the woods, not Dallas. Not part of a domestic political ambush team. Like the Man said, Tactics, he'd seen before. Military style. Everything he said is how it's done. There was absolutely command and control that day, never was a lone wolf attack.

[Buchanan-pf]

I think the most honest and unbiased opinions of what happened to JFK came from the doctors at Parkland hospital who were the FIRST medically trained professionals who saw the president after he was shot. ALL OF THEM said the wound in the neck was an ENTRY WOUND FROM THE FRONT. This would mean TWO shooters at a minimum.

[patwhite]

Lee Harvey Oswald was the scapegoat. Jack Ruby killed him so he wouldn't talk.

[alwayslernin]

The only time in my life ive ever heard of anyone cleaning up crime scene before it was processed is when the criminal is doing it.

[jimmccabe]

the only way lbj could become president...just another one of the people he had murdered...johnson was an evil person

[BigTx]

The US CIA absolutely had something to do with JFK’s assassination.

[figurinechamp]

Fantastic presentation! Allen Library really needs to hold a weekend symposium with all these amazing researchers. We must keep this information Alive and evolving. It has truly become a dream of mine to attend a lecture of Mr. Edward's, Mark Shaw, and Mr. Grover Proctor! What an amazing lineup, and weekend that would be! I'm 40, but my wife and family are completely fascinated with these presentations!

[chrisreed]

The body was also taken illegally from Texas

[RDKimmins]

One of the best documentaries about the possible process of killing JFK. This guy knows his stuff and can speak off the top of his head. I highly recommend taking the time to watch this video. Will need to watch several times and take notes - it’s that important.

[mnicholson]

I was having a normal day sitting in my first grade classroom when the principal quickly came in the classroom, whispered something in the teacher's ear and she immediately started crying. The principal let her mourn, turned to the class and told us we would be watching the news for the rest of the day and there would be no talking allowed. He then told us why. That was 60 years ago today.

[paulahurst]

We were so dumb we just believed everything they told us that day

[porico]

We will never know with 100% certainty what really happened that day in Dallas. Most of the people who knew the truth or were involved are dead. As a seventh grader in 1963, I can remember that day like it was yesterday.

[nneubsfl]

It is a shame that more people did not come listen to this lecture. Young people need to hear this and start investigating so this issue doesn't go quiet.

[Lora-G]

As a 10 year old at the time with politically active parents I was aware and DEVASTATED by the murder of a prez that was like an Uncle. Changed EVERYTHING 😢

[stringstroker]

I was in 1st grade, at Terrace Elementary, in Richardson TX when the assassination occurred. I have been to & driven through Dealy Plaza more times than I can remember. Growing up hunting with my father, both fowl and deer, gave me a good understanding of bolt action rifle operation, ammunition & ballistics. Since my childhood, I have had a love of military history, both on a strategic & tactical level.

I do agree with Mr. Edwards general premise of multiple snipers & spotters, potential sniper nests, location intel & ingress and egress. Also, he is absolutely correct that Dealy Plaza is quite small, with no shot being over 150 yds.

However he describes a modern tactical strategy, with modern equipment. In 1962, did the US military have frangible ammunition, for the fatal headshot? Did they use better rifles (Remington 700) chambered, for the 6.5mm round? Was the ‘pristine’ bullet planted on the hospital gurney? What about the recent revelation about another bullet being produced by Paul Landis, a Secret Service agent? Finally, what about the entrance wound to President Kennedy’s lower neck?

The Warren Commission Report leaks like a kitchen sieve. And Arlen Spector’s premise was wrong from the get go. Personally I believe his political career was sealed when he made some back room deal, to shove the ‘Single Bullet Theory’ down the American public’s throat, but that is another matter.

Sadly, when the Secret Service took the President’s body out of Parkland Hospital, any ability to determine bullet trajectory, direction or content was lost. I believe that Oswald was indeed a patsy, the 6th floor window was a lookout perch and the other 2 teams were on the Grassy Knoll & the Courts building.

So many people wanted Kennedy dead…The Mafia for Joe & Bobby’s actions, the Military Industrial Complex for the President’s desire to draw down service levels & open a dialog with Khrushchev, the CIA because of the Bay of Pigs and other coups, old banking cartels & power brokers because they couldn’t control him; JFK was looking to move the USA away from the Federal Reserve system and J. Edgar Hoover & Lyndon Johnson had their own reasons as well. In fact, both of my parents believe LBJ was directly involved & at least partially responsible. Dad called LBJ, “The biggest crook in Texas” when I was on his shoulders in 1961, when he and Ladybird paraded through downtown McKinney.

They did a thorough job in Dealy Plaza that day. Two things happened then…mistrust of the government was born & a coup d'é·tat was carried out.

[tubularblonde]

Thank you for this fascinating presentation. Details and projections of how things worked in order to accomplish this assassination really do come together. Every time I thought I had a question of merit, I changed my mind because the conversations and answers took care of it. However, one question I have had for all these years is this: how much did Jacqueline Kennedy know about this horrific event? Trying to think how I might have responded to all of this, if I were she, is just mind boggling. How horrible to have to live with this!

[maxinefreeman]

There had to be agents from the CIA, FBI, and the Secret Service.