JFK conspiracy theory in overdrive as sketch by surgeon who tried to save president suggests there were TWO gunmen involved in assassination
Dr Robert McClelland's drawing claims President Kennedy was shot from the front and the back while travelling through Dallas, Texas, in 1963
A FASCINATING drawing by the surgeon who tried to save John F. Kennedy's life could sensationally prove the assassinated US President was shot by two different gunmen.
Dr Robert McClelland held JFK's head as he went into theatre at Parkland Hospital after he was gunned down while travelling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible in 1963.
Nothing could be done to save the President and he died, aged just 46, 20 minutes after arrival - sparking an unprecedented outpouring of grief across America.
Dr McClelland later drew a rudimentary sketch of the right side of Kennedy's head and noted the entrance and exit wounds of the bullets, supposedly fired by lone assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
The surgeon noted two different entrance wounds - one low in the neck and one at his hairline - which crucially came from different directions, suggesting there were two separate shooters.
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He noted that the horrific fatal wound to the back of the President's head was from a bullet exiting the skull rather than entering it.
This is in conflict to the lone gunman theory as Oswald was behind Kennedy's motorcade when he fired the shots from the sixth floor of a book depository building.
Dr McClelland has previously questioned the conclusion of the Warren Commission report into the assassination, which found that Oswald acted alone.
The respected surgeon's drawing, which has been put up for auction, appears to support the theory that there was a second shooter stood on the grassy knoll in front of the motorcade.
Dr McClelland's sketch, which he signed, shows a large four to five inch exit wound at the back of JFK's head.
This, he suggests, correlates to an entry wound at Kennedy's hairline, although he admits he didn't see that wound properly.
Yet, he is adamant that he saw 'clearly' another entry wound low in the neck.
Dr McClelland believed the first bullet hit Kennedy in the back, not in the front as was assumed at the time.
He also insists the second shot hit the iconic Democrat throwing his head violently backward which would only happen if he was struck by a bullet from the front and not above and behind.
What are the main JFK assassination theories?
The official explanation – Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman
Former US Marine Oswald was a proud communist, who briefly defected to the USSR, and was a supporter of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
He was allegedly motivated to kill the President by Kennedy’s hard line approach to Cuba including a botched invasion in 1961 known as the Bay of Pigs.
The Mafia hired Oswald and other hitmen to murder the President.
Kennedy had scored a controversial election victory over future-Republican President Richard Nixon in 1960.
It is alleged that the Democrat used his family’s mob connections to swing the vote in both Texas and Illinois.
But rather than thanking the mafia for allegedly helping him, Kennedy and his brother Robert, who was also assassinated in 1968, cracked down on organised crime while in office.
The CIA hired underworld killers to carry out a daring deep state assassination
In revenge for Kennedy allegedly “stealing” the 1960 election, a group of right-wing CIA operatives hired mafia hit men or foreign assasins to carry out the high profile murder.
Kennedy was seen as a dangerous figure by many on the far right of the US political spectrum.
His critics thought his handling of the Bay of Pigs was weak and that he was not tough enough in dealing with the USSR who were taking over Eastern Europe.
How many shooters were there?
Most conspiracy theories claim between two or three shooters were involved in the killing.
Aside from Oswald in the Book Depository building, another gunman is believed to have fired shots from the grassy knoll which was across the road.
A third killer is believed by many to have shot the President from the Dal-Tex Building which was also on the other side of the street from Oswald.
The compelling drawing - which has been in the hands of a private collector for years - has emerged for auction 54 years after JFK's assassination and is tipped to sell for £3,000.
Michael Kirk, auctioneer at US-based Nate D Sanders, which is selling the sketch, said the drawing is credible proof that more than one killer was involved in the infamous assassination.
He said: "McClelland saw Kennedy's wounds first hand when he was brought into the emergency room and he has always been of the mind that they were consistent with two shooters.
"He is a credible surgeon who has believed for more than 50 years that the wound that did the most damage could not have come from a bullet above and behind, but only from a shooter stood in front of Kennedy.
"There are legions of people who believe that there was something more than was reported in the Warren Commission which concluded Oswald was acting alone and this diagram gives credence to their theory."
Kennedy was assassinated while travelling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible with his wife Jackie on November 22, 1963.
As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building, former US marine Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy.
Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Parkland Hospital. He was 46 years old.
Less than an hour after Kennedy was shot, Oswald killed a policeman who questioned him on the street near his dormitory in Dallas.
Thirty minutes later, Oswald was arrested in a movie theatre by police responding to reports of a suspect.
On November 24, he was brought to the basement of the Dallas police headquarters on his way to a more secure county jail.
As Oswald came into the room, nightclub owner Jack Ruby emerged from the crowd and fatally wounded him with a single shot from a concealed revolver.
In a twist of fate, Dr McClelland also operated on Oswald after the prime suspect was fatally shot in the abdomen two days later.
The Warren Commission was a nearly year-long investigation led by Chief Justice Earl Warren that concluded Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy and that there was no conspiracy involved.
The hotly anticipated auction ends tomorrow.
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