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Did JFK's driver shoot him?
William Greer did not shoot Kennedy — that specific claim originates with William Milton Cooper and collapses under frame-by-frame Zapruder analysis. The more substantive and documented controversy is Greer's inexplicable deceleration of the limousine after shots were fired, which Secret Service protocol explicitly prohibited. Whether that hesitation was panic, confusion, or something more sinister remains a live question among serious researchers.
Evidence
- The 'Greer pulled the trigger' theory was popularized by William Milton Cooper in his book 'Behold a Pale Horse' and spread through degraded VHS copies of the Zapruder film where a chrome handlebar on the follow-up car created an artifact some interpreted as a gun.
- High-resolution digitized versions of the Zapruder film dissolve this reading entirely.
- LegalClarity (July 2026) confirmed forensic evidence from both the Warren Commission and the HSCA places all wound trajectories entering from the rear — inconsistent with the driver's-seat angle.
- Agent Clint Hill, riding the follow-up car, screamed at Greer to accelerate before finally leaping onto the trunk.
- Roy Kellerman, the senior Secret Service agent in the front passenger seat, also failed to act with expected urgency.