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JFK assassination witness Summers dies at 80
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-10-19 09:30
Malcolm Summers, one of the closest eyewitnesses to the John F. Kennedy
assassination, has died of a heart ailment at age of 80, a funeral home said on
Monday.
President John F.
Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline arrive at Dallas airport on Nov. 22, 1963,
the day he was assassinated. Malcolm Summers, one of the closest
eyewitnesses to the John F. Kennedy assassination, has died of a heart
ailment at age of 80, a funeral home said on Monday. [AP/files]
| Summers heard Jacqueline Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally scream from the
presidential limousine as it rolled through Dealey Plaza in Dallas on Nov. 22,
1963.
Summers, who was just a few yards from the incident, can be seen on the
famous movie of JFK assassination shot by amateur photographer Abraham Zapruder
as the man diving to the ground as the shots rang out.
"I heard Connally say, 'They're going to kill us all!" or 'shoot us all!' I'm
not sure which one on that deal. And then, I heard Jackie Kennedy scream out,
'Oh, God! No, no, no!' And it was a shrill. It was very sad to hear that when
you think back," Summers said in an oral history recorded by the Sixth Floor
Museum -- a Dallas museum dedicated to the JFK assassination.
Summers told police in a deposition at the time of the assassination he
thought someone had set off a firecracker and hit the ground when he realized
shots were being fired.
Conspiracy theorists, who do not believe accused presidential assassin Lee
Harvey Oswald acted alone, have cited Summers as saying he saw suspicious
characters in the Dealey Plaza area.
Summers was born in Dallas and died on Oct. 8.
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