Was This Man a Dealey Plaza Shooter?

Friends of a seasoned Cuban assassin believed he took part in JFK's murder

Anti-Castro Cuban exiles, left to right: Armando Romero, Herminio Diaz Garcia (circled), Ramon Font, Tony Cuesta. (Credit: tangodown63.com)

The final episode of last year’s popular “Who Killed JFK?” podcast, produced by director Rob Reiner and newscaster Soledad O’Brien, identified four men as having fired shots at President John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963. The concluding installment provides a kind of “closure” to an interesting, well-informed 10-part series.

However, while any of the four individuals named could have been a shooter in Dallas on that fateful day, JFK Facts’ Jefferson Morley expressed his belief in a recent interview with Danish free speech advocate Flemming Rose that only one of the four is most credible as a suspect: Sandalio Herminio Diaz Garcia, usually known simply as Herminio Diaz.

Diaz’s biography points to both a capacity and a political inclination to murder the liberal American president. No one has ever accounted for Diaz’s whereabouts at the time, and an old friend believed he spoke the truth when he confessed to a role in the crime.