The Final Witness

By: Paul Landis

Narrated by: Lane Hakel

Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the head by a rifle bullet. Confusion reigns.

Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK’s and is at the president’s limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president’s casket on the flight back to Washington, DC, an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office. What he saw is indelibly imprinted upon his psyche. He writes and files his report. And yet, Agent Landis is never called to testify to the Warren Commission. The one person who could have supplied key answers is never asked questions. By mid-1964, the nightmares from Dallas remain, and he resigns. It isn’t until the fiftieth anniversary that he begins to talk about it and reads his first books on the assassination.

Landis learns about the raging conspiracy theories—and realizes where they all go wrong.

©2023 Paul Landis (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

A compelling story from a Secret Service Agent

As I am one of those folks who is still haunted by and yet interested in the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, I was intrigued by the book “The Final Witness” whose author I saw on CNN one day is former agent Paul Landis. In his book, Mr. Landis shares many interesting and cogent stories and facts not only about the assassination, but also about being with the Kennedy family. It is good to hear his “side” of the story with a perspective that only a Secret Service agent from the time could offer. The reader also feels (at least I did) compassion after hearing the struggles that Mr. Landis endured after the assassination. Mr. Landis relates how difficult his life was afterward and how it was frustrating that in the early to mid 1960’s there were no opportunities for personal therapy as there are now. Yet, I look at Mr. Landis as not only a survivor, but a very important witness to an event that had shaken the country if not the world back on November 22, 1963. Finally, I don’t know if anyone ever said this to Mr. Landis, but I will: “Thank you for service Mr. Landis. It was a job well done.” I hope everyone who reads this book will find it as interesting as compelling as I did. It is a ‘page turner’ (or, in the case of Audible: a book you can’t stop listening to).

This changes everything

The Final Witness puts the final nail in the coffin of Arlen Specter’s fictional Magic Bullet theory. If this is true, and I think it can be verified, the pristine bullet never touched John Connelly. That means at least one more bullet was in play. That’s too many bullets to support the Oswald Alone storyline.
As many of us already knew, we wasted 60 years listening to the deliberate lies of the Warren Commission.
It’s never too late for the truth.
Thank you Secret Service Agent Landis.

JFK assassination has always been very interesting to me.

I truly dislike that at a time of mourning a US President the was killed and the state of Texas was trying to hold the body of a President for an autopsy. Honestly it was so many other things that needed to be addressed at that time. For one getting the JFK body back to DC and swearing in
the VP as President.

Not a story about the assassination

Good autobiography of a secret service agents career with interesting stories. However book is marketed as a story with insight into the assassination which it isn’t. You are 2/3 of the book in before we get there and with one small relevant detail, you get his view of that day and its impact. Not an uninteresting story but not ground breaking assassination work.

Definitely food for thought

With this eye-witness detail and responsibilities, this account provides credibility to at least one error if not others. Worth a listen. Would be great to detail what happened after.