Speaking of tele, I watched that JFK - The Smoking Gun doco last night.
Interesting 
Yeah mate, I read the original book "Mortal Error, the shot that killed Kennedy" by Howard Donoghue, back in the 1990's, and I have no doubt that George Hickey, the Secret Service agent (actually he was only a driver who'd only been in the Secret Service for four months) accidentally "let one go" with his AR15, and unfortunately that was the round that blew JFK's brains out.
To be fair, the shot from the Carcano that was supposedly fired by Lee Harvey Oswald could well have killed Kennedy anyway, but the AR15 round was the final blow.
It's good that the Aussie Detective Colin McLaren has revived the story as it's been pretty much lost in time, but I was concerned when watching the show that he was taking credit for Howards work, although to be fair, McLaren was able to find more evidence that the Secret Service and the US government, including Earl Warren, conducted a massive cover-up to ensure that JFK died as a martyr to democracy, and not as a result of a cock-up by someone who was supposed to be protecting him.
After seeing that the only reason that Hickey was carrying the gun was that the rest of the Secret Service detail were too hung over after drinking until 5am on November the 22nd, it really makes a mockery of the whole organisation, what a bunch of incompetent fools. It also makes Lee Harvey Oswalds last words to the press all the more relevant, when he said "I didn't do it, I'm a Patsy".
Interestingly the last person to speak to Oswald, only minutes before Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby, was Inspector Thomas J. Kelley, from the Secret Service. Kelley told the Dallas Police that he was anxious to talk to Oswald, as soon as he (Oswald) secured legal counsel, as Oswald had been charged with the Presidents murder, but had denied it. Is it possible that the Secret Service intended to offer Lee Harvey Oswald some kind of "deal"? I guess we'll never know, which pisses me off............
