Ken O’Donnell on grassy knoll shots

“I told the FBI what I had heard [two shots from behind the grassy knoll fence], but they said it couldn’t have happened that way and that I must have been imagining things. So I testified the way they wanted me to. I just didn’t want to stir up any more pain and trouble for the family.”

- Kennedy aide Kenneth O’Donnell, quoted by House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr. in Man of the House, p. 178. O’Donnell was riding in the Secret Service follow-up car with Dave Powers, who was present and told O’Neill he had the same recollection.

3 comments

  1. Brian LeCloux says:

    This parallels what DPD officer James Leavelle told researcher Barry Ernst and reported in his The Girl on the Stairs (2011):
    If the witness couldn’t provide anything we could use against Oswald, it wasn’t important.

  2. Rainy Griffin says:

    My great grandma knew LBJ… she dint rally care for him… she said he walked round with a whiskey flask in his pocket.My family is part of the wealthy Texas Oil Elite.And they went to the infamous barbeques LBJ put on.My great grandmother predicted JFKs assanation…. and knew that LBJ would have Kenndy killed…… because She knew JBJ s charaacter..she even said he would bring Jack to Texas.I vehmentaly hate what has happened.I think JFK is the Only real Presedent we have had since that day!

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