Gordon L Arnold

[Dealey Joe]

Gordon L Arnold (August 14, 1943 – October 11, 1997, Dallas, Texas) is a man who claimed to have witnessed the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.Arnold served twelve years in the United States Army, after enlisting in 1963. After being discharged from the Army, Arnold married in 1966 (one living son as of 2004) and became employed with the Dallas Department of Consumer Affairs in Dallas, Texas.In 1978 Arnold first publicly claimed to have been a witness to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza in Dallas. He claimed that minutes before the assassination he was twice approached by a business-suited CIA or Secret Service agent who demanded that he move from behind the picket fence of the Dealey Plaza north grassy knoll to the front of the fence. He claimed he moved just south of the picket fence and then filmed the assassination with a movie camera from a few feet north of a 3.3-foot (1 meter) high concrete retaining wall on the grassy knoll, and that a bullet passed extremely close to his left ear, then he dove to the ground. Arnold said that very soon after the end of the attack a man armed with a revolver and dressed in a Dallas police uniform kicked him while Arnold was still lying on the ground then demanded his movie film while another man armed with a rifle and also dressed in a Dallas police uniform and wearing yellow lens tinted "shooter's glasses" stood close by crying, shaking, and waving his rifle around. A person of this description has been brought out of the Moorman photo and been named the badge man. Debate continues over the validity of the assumption due to poor negatives, missing negatives and trajectory needed to make the "head shot". Suggestions to counter those concerns come from using a stool, shooting off a bumper or other aids to make the shot fit the scene. Arnold said he gave the revolver-armed police officer his movie camera, the police officer removed the film, then returned the camera to Arnold.Arnold said that three days later he reported for his pre-assassination-scheduled transfer to the U.S. Army's Fort Wainwright in Alaska.Despite his claims being made public some five months before the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation ended, the HSCA, which did learn of his claims, decided not to interview him.Arnold elaborated on his claims in the 1988 documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy and in a 1989 interview with the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. The transcript of that 1989 interview was eventually made available to the public in 2004.A unimpeachable witness, Senator (D) Ralph Yarborough Ralph_Yarborough, stated he did see a man in that exact location that Gordon Arnold claimed to have been. In this video clip, at about 4:00, the Senator speaks about what he saw and it does validate the account of Mr. Arnold.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-_06iHdM3A&NR=1.