JFK assassination witness questions whether shooter acted alone

Paul Landis's recollection of Kennedy's slaying is bound to fuel those who believe multiple shooters killed the late president

An ex-Secret Service agent who was feet away from John F Kennedy when the former president was shot dead has broken his decades-old silence to cast doubt on the single-bullet theory held by the commission which investigated the assassination.

In an interview published by the New York Times over the weekend, Paul Landis said that he long believed the official finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he killed Kennedy.