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 left ear. Immediately he dropped to the ground. Two more shots were then fired.
“The next thing I knew someone was kicking my butt and telling mew to get up.” The man looked like a “policeman” according to Arnold. “And then this other guy, who also looked like an officer, came up with a shot gun and he was crying and that thing was waving back and forth. I told him he could have everything I have. Just point that someplace else.” Gordon then removed the film from the camera, and threw it at the guy.
Years later in 1982, Gordon was again interviewed. He told his story, but this time adding more. “If I could of dug a hole and crawled in, I would of, because there was more then one shot fired. It was a crack, just like I was standing under the muzzle. At first I thought they were shooting at me.”
Three years later, he told the same story as in 1982. This time he added that he spoke briefly with the “officer” a second time before the shooting. (Remember above he stated that the officer tells him to leave the property and walks away, not saying another word.) “I could feel him following me, we soon had more words.” Next he adds some about the other “officer”. “One of them asked me if I had filmed anything, I replied yes. He told me to give him the film, so I tossed the camera to him. The guy just took out the film and threw the camera back at me. I just wanted to get out of that place.”
In only three interviews, his story changed a lot. So far, I don’t believe one word that has came out of his mouth. In the last interview, he stated that he tossed the guy his camera. If he thought that the “second officer” was the one who killed Kennedy, don’t you think he would of turned his camera in for fingerprints? This guy hasn’t yet made sense.
Gordon was also in the movie The Men Who Killed Kennedy. In this final interview, his story gets even longer, and harder to believe. This time he changes things around. He said that he didn’t even get to the fence on top of the Grassy Knoll. Previously he said he was inside the fence walking around. He changed that a man in a uniform, with dirty hands, walked toward him while he was still on the ground. “The gentleman was crying and shaking like a weapon around. He asked if I took pictures and I said yes. He then told me to give him the camera; I refused because it was my mothers.”
I had to bold and underline the last statement, because it is completely different from the other two versions. Now that you know about Gordon Arnold, do you think that he was in the Grassy Knoll on November 22nd 1963? If you do believe him, please tell me how you gathered information to actually make sense of Arnold.
Gordon Arnold isn’t the only person who has made up a bizarre story. This happens in high school everyday. What do you think rumors are? People usually do these things, simply to seek publicity, be a part of history, or to become popular. If Gordon just wanted publicity, then he succeeded. Even though he died, his story still lives.