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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Jerry Blaine is a retired secret service agent who served Kennedy throughout his entire presidency. This is a continuation on his account of the assassination…
One popular theory surrounding Kennedy’s assassination is…the magic bullet.
Often times, the number of shots fired and from where changes depending on who you ask.
Jerry tells Western Slope Now three shots were fired, all from Oswald on the sixth floor of the book depository, which would rule out another theory – the grassy knoll.
He says three workers on the fifth floor heard it all through the ceiling and felt debris fall on their head after each of the shots shook the building above them.
The first bullet, to Jerry’s account, hit Kennedy in the back of the neck. The second shot hit Governor Conley, and the third shot hit the side of Kennedy’s head. Jerry says it was impossible to clear every room around the block with so few people assigned to the detail.
He tells Western Slope Now they only had about 48 people on the white house detail. Protecting the president at any one time were only five agents.
Nowadays, 30 to 40 people guard the president at all times, making it much less likely this fragment of history will repeat itself.
But, today, the challenges are greater.
The state of today’s world gave Jerry, now 92, the motivation to write a new book – called, The Silent Generation Speaks.
He says, “It includes the corruption of some of our politicians and to look at our country as a constitutional republic.”
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