JFK Assassination Witness Summers Dies at 80

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DALLAS (Reuters) - Malcolm Summers, one of the closest eyewitnesses to the John F. Kennedy assassination, has died of a heart ailment at age of 80, a funeral home said on Monday.

Summers heard Jacqueline Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally scream from the presidential limousine as it rolled through Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

Summers, who was just a few yards from the incident, can be seen on the famous movie of JFK assassination shot by amateur photographer Abraham Zapruder as the man diving to the ground as the shots rang out.

"I heard Connally say, 'They're going to kill us all!" or 'shoot us all!' I'm not sure which one on that deal. And then, I heard Jackie Kennedy scream out, 'Oh, God! No, no, no!' And it was a shrill. It was very sad to hear that when you think back," Summers said in an oral history recorded by the Sixth Floor Museum -- a Dallas museum dedicated to the JFK assassination.

Summers told police in a deposition at the time of the assassination he thought someone had set off a firecracker and hit the ground when he realized shots were being fired.

Conspiracy theorists, who do not believe accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, have cited Summers as saying he saw suspicious characters in the Dealey Plaza area.

Summers was born in Dallas and died on Oct. 8.

Pity he couldnt have died knowing the truth about what he witnessed or who those pther assasians really were that day. Then again if hed watched that oliver stone movie hed have got a good idea what really happened.

-- uh huh (y@hoo.com), October 18, 2004

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too right!

-- (ert@ert.hg), October 18, 2004.

That is a shame, there might have been more to learn. Although, if there was much more, I suppose he might have said it already. What's the point of waiting until you're eighty? I geuss we'll never know.

-- U msut Feers Me (Dubyalovesblow00@hotmail.com), October 18, 2004.

Yeah, his death was a CIA action. They decided to wait 40 years just to throw everyone off the scent, then rubbed him out. Right Anti? The CIA had him killed to elect Bush, Right?

BAzooka Joe

-- 2 (1@3.4), October 18, 2004.


In coordination with the aliens, of course.

-- Anti-bush (Comrade_bleh@hotmail.com), October 18, 2004.

I say the shot that ripped his skull off was from inside the limo or the next limo back. The umbrella man shot darts paralyzing JFK from ducking.Jews were part of it because JFK did want american inspections at nuke facility. LBJ,Nixon, hoover secret service. Well I wonder if we get to know the real story when we pass on. I wonder if we will get the real story on 9/11 too. I also want to know the bastard who broke up sonny and cher

-- Bill Brasky (brasky@jfklimo.com), October 22, 2004.


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