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US Secret Service Agent William Greer was driving the Kennedy's limo and his actions are still analyzed today. Did Greer slow down when he should have sped up? Greer insists he accelerated but the Zapruder home movie suggests otherwise, as do some - but not all - eyewitnesses.
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The 90-second clip comes from a longer 1991 interview (archived here) by then-KUTV news anchor Bob Evans with conspiracy theorist Bill Cooper, who died in 2001. In this segment of the interview, they talk about Cooper's claim that Greer shot and killed Kennedy as he was driving Kennedy in a motorcade on November 22, 1963, the day JFK was assassinat...
The film described in the video and the portion shown in the Instagram post is known as the Zapruder film, which was shot by Abraham Zapruder as the motorcade drove by the Texas School Book Depository. The Dallas clothing manufacturer set out to record the visit by Kennedy but instead chronicled his assassination.
While Cooper claims the film shows Greer killing Kennedy, the experts disagree. A 1977 report by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which looked into Kennedy's death and the 1968 murder of Martin Luther King Jr., came to several conclusions about the U.S. president's killing, including that: A nearly identical statement can be found on p...
William Robert Greer (September 22, 1909 – February 23, 1985) was an agent of the U.S. Secret Service, best known as being the driver of President John F. Kennedy's presidential limousine in the motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963, when the president was assassinated.
William Greer: No, sir; I had flags on the car and you know they were waving at a high rate of speed and you have the Presidential flag and the American flag in front of you there; you know when you are going at a fast speed you get a lot of, well, I don't know how you would say it, it attracts you so much that I didn't have any recollection of ...
- Bo Byers. Bo Byers, a reporter for the , was in the White House press bus. He was interviewed for a TV programme in which he stated twice that the Presidential limousine “almost came to a stop, a dead stop.”
- Bob Clark. Bob Clark, a reporter for ABC, was in the national press car immediately in front of the three camera cars. Palamara states that Clark “reported on the air that the limousine stopped on Elm Street during the shooting.”
- Merriman Smith. Also in the national press car was UPI’s White House reporter, Merriman Smith. Palamara quotes him as writing that “the President’s car, possibly as much as 150 or 200 yards ahead, seemed to falter briefly.”
- James W. Courson. Courson, a Dallas police motorcyclist who was several car–lengths back in the motorcade, is quoted in Larry Sneed, , p.129, stating that “the limousine came to a stop and Mrs Kennedy was on the back.
Aug 15, 2016 · The driver, William Greer, heard a noise which he took to be a backfire from one of the motorcycles flanking the Presidential car. When he heard the same noise again, Greer glanced over his shoulder and saw Governor Connally fall.
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Oct 17, 2014 · William Greer, at the wheel of the president’s car, did not immediately speed up or swerve away from the shots. Paul Landis, in the vehicle trailing Kennedy’s, did not jump forward to protect...
