Did a Secret Service Agent Accidentally Shoot JFK in the Head?
Michael T. Griffith [Editor’s Note: Michael Griffith, who has a strong background in applied science and training from the Defense Language Institute at Monterey, CA, has authored many articles and a book, COMPELLING EVIDENCE (1996), on the assassination of JFK. He maintains an award-winning web site devoted to controversial issues at http://ourworld.cs.com/mikegriffith1/.] The late ballistics and firearms expert Howard Donahue believed that one of the Secret Service (SS) agents in the follow-up car accidentally shot President Kennedy. Donahue’s theory and his supporting arguments are the subject of a book by Bonar Menninger, MORTAL ERROR (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992). The work includes an excellent “Publisher’s Note” that summarizes the findings of a St. Martin’s Press research team regarding the flawed trajectory analysis done by NASA scientist Thomas Canning for the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). According to Donahue, Oswald did indeed fire at Kennedy, but o
