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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]stopbush
(24,393 posts)Mary Ferrell? Right.
First off, what does it matter what the surgeon who performed the autopsy on JFK thought about bullet fragments removed from Gov Connally? Said surgeon never examined Gov Connally, nor did he ever look at the fragments or any of the other physical evidence gathered by the WC. Last I looked, Connally survived the shooting, which meant that no autopsy surgeon ever had a look at him in connection to this case.
Second, Ferrell adds this total speculation to the link you refernced: "There is also some doubt about whether the fragments now in evidence (CE 842) comprise all that was removed from Governor Connally's wrist."
Really? Says who? Why, Mary and the other JFK CTists who can't bring themselves to dealing with the facts in the case, but who trade in speculation ("there is also some doubt."
You really are a sucker for this shit, aren't you?
On the other hand, John Lattimer - who DID have access to and who did examine the evidence - said this in his book "Kennedy and Lincoln":
Were the Four Fragments in Connally Excessive?
Critics also contended that the four fragments of
bullet seen in the preoperative X-rays of Connally s wrist
and thigh were too many to be produced from the amount of
lead estimated to be missing from bullet 399, that is, 2.2
grains. Again, they said this without checking for its
validity. Once more it appeared to me and my sons that we
could contribute answers to this question.
It would be necessary, it seemed to us at once,
carefully to weigh 100 of the sample bullets. These would
have to be identical to those fired by Oswald.
First, however, I closely examined the fragments of the
bullets removed from Kennedy's head, from Connally's wrist,
and from the automobile. Neutron activation analysis
revealed that the wrist fragments all came from bullet 399.
All the other bullet fragments, from the Presidents brain
and from the floor of the car, came from the head bullet No
other bullets were represented in the car.
As far as the weight of the bullets and the amount of bullet material found in Connally, Lattimer writes:
After considerable difficulty, I
obtained a substantial supply of exactly the same cartridges
as Oswald had used. Around 1954, four lots of these
cartridges had been manufactured. I was finally able to
procure samples from lots 6000, 6001, 6002, and 6003, and
the FBI obtained samples from lots 6000 and 6003, all of
which proved consistent and reliable. One hundred of these
bullets were pulled from cartridges, and my son Jon weighed
them on a precision balance in the laboratories of the
Englewood School for Boys. The weights ranged from 159.80
grains for the lightest bullet to 161.50 grains for the
heaviest, with an average weight of 160.844 grains and a
median weight of 160.80 grains.
This compared fairly closely with the weight range of
three sample bullets weighed by the FBI laboratory and
reported by firearms expert Robert Frazier. He found them to
weigh 160.85 grains, 161.1 grains, and 161.5 grains, with an
average weight of 161.15 grains, whereas our larger sample
yielded a mean weight of 160.84 grains.
Since bullet 399 weighed 158.6 grains when found, we
have assumed that it lost between 1.2 grains and 2.9 grains,
with a mean probability of 2.2 grains.
More here: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/wound3.txt