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AMBUSHED – THE SECRET SERVICE

Dallas Police and Secret Service agents Winston Lawson and Forrest Sorrells, who planned and were in charge of the motorcade, let Kennedy ride through Dallas in an open limousine, making no attempt to secure buildings or rooftops along the route.  Although Secret Service rules prohibit turns of more than 90 degrees, the motorcade made a planned but unnecessary 120 degree turn in front of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, causing the cars to slow down.  Seconds later, shots rang out, hitting the President and Governor Connally.  Films taken at the time (12:30pm) show that after the shooting began, the brake lights on the president’s car, driven by Secret Service agent William Greer, came on, again slowing the car before the fatal shot was fired, 6 to 8 seconds later.

The mortally wounded president was rushed to Parkland Hospital, where, after a tracheotomy and other life saving measure were performed, he was pronounced dead at 1:00 pm.  In contravention to Texas law and over the objections of the Dallas County Medical Examiner, Kennedy’s body was removed at gunpoint by Secret Service agents, taken to Air Force One, and flown to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

Several people observed the bullet hole in the windshield of the president’s limousine while it was outside Parkland Hospital.  The Secret Service immediately flew the vehicle to Washington DC, allowed the FBI to inspect it, and scrubbed it clean.  The windshield turned in as evidence several months later was slightly damaged on the inside as if from a bullet fragment, but had no hole through it.  Thus evidence of a possible additional shot or a frontal attack was suppressed.

ambush:

1. The act of lying in wait to attack by surprise.
2. A sudden attack made from a concealed position.
3. 1. Those hiding in order to attack by surprise.
   2. The hiding place used for this.
4. A hidden peril or trap.