One of the more interesting theories associated with the JFK assassination is the idea that at least some of the shooters and presumably their weapons and spent cartridges vanished through an underground sewer line that leads to the Trinity River. The first time I encountered the idea was in a 22-page document called "A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File," a document that was spread hand-to-hand all over the world since 1975. The document turned out to have been written by Stephanie Caruana, who for a time collaborated with conspiracy researcher Mae Brussell, but Caruana's identity was not commonly known at the time. The Skeleton Key was distilled from a series of letters by a San Franciscan named Bruce Roberts who, for various reasons, had access to information to which the common citizen was not privy.
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| Behind the fence on the Grassy Knoll: Assassins could have escaped Dealey Plaza through this sewer line, which led to the Trinity River. |
In the section that purports to lay out the details of the JFK assassination, the Key states, "Roselli shot Kennedy once hitting the right side of his head and blowing his brains out with a rifle from behind a fence in the grassy knoll area. Roselli and his timer went down a manhole behind the fence and followed the sewer line away from Dealey Plaza."
This was in print in 1975, yet it wasn't until the 90s that Tom Wilson, who perfected a industrial technique for detecting imperfections in steel called Photonics. He took the Mary Moorman photo which shows Kennedy's head at the moment it is being struck by a bullet, and from that Wilson could create an accurate three-dimensional model of Kennedy's head wound. What puzzled Wilson was that the trajectory seemed to be coming out of the ground, which didn't make sense. But after a visit to Dealey Plaza, Wilson realize the suggested path of the frontal missile lead directly to an open sewer along the motorcade route that would not only allow a shooter a shot from the front, bat also an easy underground escape. The theory was tested by Jack Brazil whose team verified that the underground system of tunnels was a perfect setup for assassins.
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Photo Credit: History Channel "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" Patriotic veteran Jack Brazil and a team investigated the underground network of sewer lines and determined the location was ideal for shooters who could escape undetected in about twenty minutes. Some commentators have suggested that certain aspects of Dealey Plaza like the hairpin turn off Houston onto Elm, its geography conducive to triangulated crossfire, and the underground tunnels all suggest military planning a la special forces. |
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| A sniper crouched in the storm drain could have squeezed off rounds directly at the oncoming presidential motorcade |