Did Richard Dodd See Smoke on the Grassy Knoll?
- Fred Litwin
- 8 hours ago
- 3 min read
Richard C. Dodd is another one of Mark Lane's 'smoke on the grassy knoll' witnesses.' (page 40 of Rush to Judgment)
In filmed interviews, both James L. Simmons and Richard C. Dodd told me that they had seen smoke near the bushes and trees at the corner of the wooden fence ... Dodd said, 'The smoke came from behind the ledge on the north side of the plaza'.
Dodd said that "his attention remained on President Kennedy; he did not look up and did not know where the shots came from."
Mark Lane footnotes the FBI report in his book Rush to Judgment but doesn't mention it in his text. So, his readers have no idea that Dodd told the FBI that he had no idea where the shots came from. And that he initially said nothing about smoke.
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