Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 38.

This is a single and relatively short episode about Emmett Hudson.

I debated on whether to include Emmett in the narrative around the grassy knoll,

but he was standing on the steps right underneath where a gunshot would have come from,

so he was a material witness, or should have been. But what happens next throws that prospect up for grabs.

I guess we just need to listen and see what happened.

So, without further ado, let's listen to episode 38.

Their point, There probably was nobody better to understand every little patch of ground in that corner of the Dealey Plaza.

Nobody better than Emmett Hudson. And on that day, Mr. Hudson was standing on that set of steps. On the north side of Elm Street, that set of steps that gently curves as they make their way up to the top

of the grassy knoll, where the top of the steps reached the picket fence. The set of steps closest to the

underpass and to the west. He wasn't standing

alone there on those steps. There was two other unrelated spectators within a step or two of him.

You see, Mr. Hudson was employed by the City of Dallas Parks Department. His job was to take

care of that ground, that ground right there in Deley Plaza.

Where he was standing was elevated from Elm Street, and from that position, he would have been in the

direct line of fire if a shot or shots had come from the grassy knoll, and literally he might well

have felt the rush of air passed by his air as the shot

found a path to the president's limousine. Unfortunately, instead of becoming a star witness,

Mr. Hudson would answer a precious few questions, critical questions, so oddly that his testimony

was not highlighted by the Warren Commission. In effect, he was a

witness for neither side. In today's episode, it won't be the first, and a number of puzzling statements

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