Gordon Arnold's Chaotic Story

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Gordon Arnold's Chaotic Story

November 22, 1963, was the day President Kennedy was assassinated.

Witnesses were gathered in Dallas to watch their president drive by,

not ever expecting that was going to be the end of his life. The

stories some of them told were unbelievable! Some people even went as

far as faking their presence. Who would do a thing like that? One

particular guy proved to me that there are people who will do anything

for publicity.

Gordon Arnold, a former soldier, claimed he was on the Grassy Knoll

during the tragedy. Evidence tells me that he wasn't anywhere to be

seen. Photo enhancements, after the shots fired, don't show any sign

of him. Arnold said you couldn't see him, because he was laying flat

on the ground. The photos captured every part of the Grassy Knoll, so

if he were on the ground like he claimed he was, the photos would have

shown him. That was my first piece of evidence that he was telling a

false story.

The next thing that caught my eye was he waited 15 years to tell his

story. So did he just wake up one day, and decide it was time to tell

America what he saw and encountered? Sounds like somebody just wants

to get attention. Earl Golz, a newsman from the Dallas Morning News,

was the first person to interview Gordon.

Gordon Arnold stated in 1978, that a man, wearing a light-colored

suit, stopped him. He said he was walking behind a fence, on top of

the Grassy Knoll, minutes before the assassination. As he moved over

to the railroad bridge, over the triple underpass, to film Kennedy

drive by. On his way there a man stopped him and told him he shouldn't

be up there. Arnold claims he "challenged the mans authority, and then

the guy pulled out a badge." He then retreated in front of the fence.

He could see JFK's limo coming down the street, so Arnold started

filming. That's when he claimed the first shot was inches away for his

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