On November 22, 1963, US President John F. Kennedy was killed riding in an open-topped car, with the first lady, during a presidential motorcade in Dallas. This dark day – and the likely culprit – has been the subject of much-heated discussion and controversy.
We present the case that he could not have been killed by the Supermarine Seafang naval fighter.
Here are 10 reasons that prove conclusively that it was not a Seafang that killed President Kennedy.
10. Despite thousands of onlookers, including a planespotter club meeting in a nearby Chicken Cottage restaurant, there are no reports of a suspicious aircraft matching the Seafang’s description.
9. One of the reasons the Fleet Air Arm favoured the rival Sea Fury over the Seafang, was due to the latter’s inferior low-speed handling characteristics. Hitting the President’s car with accuracy while avoiding high-rise buildings and evading detection would have involved manoeuvring capabilities well beyond that of the Seafang.
8. The Seafang was armed with four 20-mm cannons, yet the round used in the Kennedy killing was a far smaller 6.5-mm rifle round. The greater destructive effect of the Seafang’s armament would have caused a greater deal of collateral damage.
7. Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth would be the nearest likely airfield. As an 80-mile flight from the book depository, it would have been well within the Seafang’s range, BUT at the time it was not in naval service. It was Carswell Air Force Base under air force command and therefore it would not have supported operations by a British naval fighter.
6. Kennedy’s wartime experience aboard a Motor Torpedo Boat would have made him aware of what an attacking naval fighter sounds like and how best to avoid it: the absence of evasive tactics points to the fact that the President never heard a diving Seafang.
5. The received sound level for a single 20mm cannon is 105 dBA at 50 ft – the sound of four such weapons firing would certainly have been audible. With a likely attack altitude of well below 250 metres the noise would have been as loud as 15 grand pianos falling on Stonehenge.
4. The main proponent of the Seafang Assassination Theory was William Pummel, our research reveals he was an active member of the Cult of the Westland Wyvern (a Yeovil-based religious sect who follow the teachings of a later carrier strike fighter) and thus had a vested interest in discrediting the Seafang.
3. The Seafang’s last flight was in 1946, 17 years before the assassination and 4,664 miles away from the book depository.
2. The Post-JFK Assassination Air Force One Flight Deck Recording contain no sound reminiscent of the glorious throaty roar of the Seafang’s Griffon engine
- Most damning, of the eight Seafang airframes made, all were scrapped. This means that for a Seafang to have been used for the assassination it would have involved a team of specialists with access to the original blueprints and factory machining parts to scratch-build a new airframe. This is beyond the realm of possibility. Though it remains possible one Seafang was hidden in a volcano by a disgruntled Supermarine employee who was later coerced by the Mafia or Communist Cuba to use in the assassination, this is unlikely.
But, did the Seafang killed Jimmy Hoffa?
This must be the most bizarre article you have ever written.
WTF?
I always felt this theory was dubious – at best.
Well done for debunking this conspiracy inspired myth.
On a more sober note – you guys DO realise that this will now be taken seriously by the multitudinous noodle brained idiots who do believe this nonsense?
It’s out there.
Good luck chaps…
And not forgetting that the Chicken Cottage in question is in Southwark, London SE1 and is no where near Dallas, Texas… although as everyone knows, there is a Southfork Ranch where the villainous J R
Ewing lived around 30 miles from Dallas …
Welp, that clears that up. I’ve always been partial to the Seafang theory.
JRB Fort Worth was at the time Carswell AFB. The Naval Air Station in the area was Hensley Field or NAS Dallas , now known as Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve base ( Texas ANG and US Army Reserve and USMC Reserve), Grand Prairie is very very close to Dallas. Great story though
Phark yeah the Fang may have been there!
Now I really do think you’ve finally completely lost it!!!
It must have been an F6F fitted with small calibre guns, flown off a Russian submarine on a One-Way mission by an american Communist recruited by the Republicans, CIA, FBI, NRA, Mafia (and assorted Italian American singers…) on behalf of Lyndon N Johnson to become President with help from Castro, Khrushchev, the Noeth and South Vietnamese, not to mention the African Americans opposed to funding the moon ‘program’ (sic).
Mind you, Anthony Eden might have had a finger in it, along with the PM, Alex Douglas Home and MI6, as vengeance for US opposition to the Suez operation, so perhaps a Seafang could, somehow, be in the frame…
Or a Bf 109 as a German reprisal for JFK’s claim ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’…
Or a Zero as a Japanese reprisal for all the ships JFK torpedo’d…
George W. Bush was a naval aviator, and Director of the CIA. Bush won chairmanship of the Harris County Republican Party in Texas in February 1963. Means, motive and opportunity. The US Navy had sanitized aircraft that had no overt links to the US. With 128 carrier landings under his belt, Bush would have been able to cut the engine for the final approach. The Seafang used drop tanks for the return trip to the carrier in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ironically, Bush never new he was a patsy, and that the Hispano-Suiza HS.404 on the floor above Oswald made the shot, with 6.5mm sabot.
Not 100% convinced, but you make a compelling argument.