12-06-2013, 12:55 AM
4/17/1991 Kilduff was interviewed by H.E. Livingstone:
Q: At the press conference at Parkland you pointed your finger at the right temple area.
A: I was wrong at that time, because it wasn't until I went downstairs right after that and the doctors told me. But when I saw him downstairs it was clearly in the left side of his head.
Q: Was missing?
A: Yeah.
Q: When you say left side of the head, you mean forward of the left ear?
A: Yeah....when you look at the Zapruder film, it shows him grabbing his throat first, pitching forward, his hands grabbing his throat, right? Okay, now, that bullet, to my mind and for all the evidence presented so far, shows that that bullet went into the back of his head [sic?] and came out just above his tie, because of the marks on his tie and on his shirt.
Q: Those marks were scissor marks, when they cut off his tie
A: I'm talking about blood, and also that oblong-shaped hole that was in the front of his neck....I immediately turn around and I look up. What am I looking at? I am looking at the window of the School Book Depository ...Because to me that is where the shots are coming from.
Q: Do you accept the Warren Commission findings?
A: With one exception. I do not accept the so-called 'Magic' Bullet Theory...I have been swimming with Connally in the pool at the White House, and I saw a clean scar in his back, also it did not tumble much as it exited his right chest...It was a very short period of time between the second and third shot.
Q: All of the medical witnesses state that there was no damage whatsoever to the face.
A: I don't understand how they could possibly say that when the left part of his forehead looked like - when I got over to the car - looked like two pounds of ground beef."
Q: The left part of the forehead?
A: The left part of his forehead.
Q: And there was no damage to the eye at all?
A: Oh, you couldn't even tell, there was so much blood and gore. They found that piece of the skull, over by the curb...Also, if you take those frames from Zapruder, there is something definitely entering his head ahead of his head. It looks like an explosion..But that clearly is going forward and it's not coming out of the back....The blow-out was in the left front. The Zapruder film shows that. Frames 313,314,315....The bullet came in on the right side and exited the left side.
Q: Well, all the medical testimony...was that the back of the head was missing.
A: The back of the head?!
He recalled that Sen. Yarborough was hysterical at Parkland hospital. When Livingstone pointed out that shooting at the car while it was on Houston would have been better, Kilduff said:
A: No, he wouldn't have. He had the windshield in the way....of course, you have to get into the theory also that he wasn't really after Kennedy, that he was actually after Connally because of his had discharged from the Marine Corps, and Connally had been Secretary of the Navy...this would have been more dramatic [than shooting him at some other time]...I've been saying that for years. And I've talked to John Connally about it. And John feels the same way. He had reason to shoot Connally, and he didn't have a motive to shoot Kennedy...In the Zapruder film, also, where are the Secret Service agents looking? They are all turning around, looking over their right shoulders and in that window. Every single one of them. Not just one, not two...Blakey called me over one day and asked me, 'What we'd like from you is what evidence you can give us that would help up substantiate or help us prove a conspiracy theory.'
Q: At the press conference at Parkland you pointed your finger at the right temple area.
A: I was wrong at that time, because it wasn't until I went downstairs right after that and the doctors told me. But when I saw him downstairs it was clearly in the left side of his head.
Q: Was missing?
A: Yeah.
Q: When you say left side of the head, you mean forward of the left ear?
A: Yeah....when you look at the Zapruder film, it shows him grabbing his throat first, pitching forward, his hands grabbing his throat, right? Okay, now, that bullet, to my mind and for all the evidence presented so far, shows that that bullet went into the back of his head [sic?] and came out just above his tie, because of the marks on his tie and on his shirt.
Q: Those marks were scissor marks, when they cut off his tie
A: I'm talking about blood, and also that oblong-shaped hole that was in the front of his neck....I immediately turn around and I look up. What am I looking at? I am looking at the window of the School Book Depository ...Because to me that is where the shots are coming from.
Q: Do you accept the Warren Commission findings?
A: With one exception. I do not accept the so-called 'Magic' Bullet Theory...I have been swimming with Connally in the pool at the White House, and I saw a clean scar in his back, also it did not tumble much as it exited his right chest...It was a very short period of time between the second and third shot.
Q: All of the medical witnesses state that there was no damage whatsoever to the face.
A: I don't understand how they could possibly say that when the left part of his forehead looked like - when I got over to the car - looked like two pounds of ground beef."
Q: The left part of the forehead?
A: The left part of his forehead.
Q: And there was no damage to the eye at all?
A: Oh, you couldn't even tell, there was so much blood and gore. They found that piece of the skull, over by the curb...Also, if you take those frames from Zapruder, there is something definitely entering his head ahead of his head. It looks like an explosion..But that clearly is going forward and it's not coming out of the back....The blow-out was in the left front. The Zapruder film shows that. Frames 313,314,315....The bullet came in on the right side and exited the left side.
Q: Well, all the medical testimony...was that the back of the head was missing.
A: The back of the head?!
He recalled that Sen. Yarborough was hysterical at Parkland hospital. When Livingstone pointed out that shooting at the car while it was on Houston would have been better, Kilduff said:
A: No, he wouldn't have. He had the windshield in the way....of course, you have to get into the theory also that he wasn't really after Kennedy, that he was actually after Connally because of his had discharged from the Marine Corps, and Connally had been Secretary of the Navy...this would have been more dramatic [than shooting him at some other time]...I've been saying that for years. And I've talked to John Connally about it. And John feels the same way. He had reason to shoot Connally, and he didn't have a motive to shoot Kennedy...In the Zapruder film, also, where are the Secret Service agents looking? They are all turning around, looking over their right shoulders and in that window. Every single one of them. Not just one, not two...Blakey called me over one day and asked me, 'What we'd like from you is what evidence you can give us that would help up substantiate or help us prove a conspiracy theory.'