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Paul Landis, Secret Service Agent at JFK's Assassination, Remembers
It's been 60 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Paul Landis was there as a secret service agent. For decades, he kept his memories of that day to himself: The horror, the chaos, an in-tact bullet. But now he's sharing them.