Gordon Arnold's Chaotic Story.

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Mikkel Allenbrand         English II        Kennedy Assassination Eyewitness

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Gordon Arnold’s Chaotic Story

By: Mikkel Allenbrand

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.

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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 ...

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