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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)that the bone fragments were placed in the custody of FBI agents O'Neill and Silbert. These were two of the witnesses I cited in my posting:
Silbert:
Q: Did you ever hear any discussion about beveling of the skull? Sound
familiar?
A: No.
According to O'Neill, there was no evidence of the entry wound cited in the autopsy because that area of the skull was simply blown out. This fact also seems to be confirmed by the numerous other witnesses cited.
If the investigators were willing to fabricate details about the small entry hole they claimed was in the eop area of the skull, then how much further were they willing to fabricate evidence related to the exit hole in the bone fragment? Apparently the bone fragments were taken off to a lab somewhere and none of these witnesses, including Silbert, witnessed any of the details concerning the beveling. Could it be possible that the actual "exit" bone fragment came from the back of the skull and the investigators, pressured to reach a certain conclusion, conveniently overlooked this? Unfortunately, the HSCA and ARRB reports did not seem to go so far as to question the FBI's evidence in this regard.
The rest of your argument seems to be based on the conclusions reached in the Neutron Analysis of the bullet contents. As I've pointed out definitively in the other post, these methods are no longer considered valid and the FBI has abandoned their use. The problem is that the variation of the material in a manufactured lot of bullets cannot be proven to be significantly different than the variation within a single bullet. This would seem to make perfect sense from a manufacturers point of view. If there indeed was more than one shooter, then its quite possible that they shared ammunition from the same lot.
Also, it seems that, "in many published interviews" FBI agent James Silbert didn't even buy into the single bullet theory:
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2012/apr/18/last-surviving-fbi-agent-at-jfk-autopsy-dies-in/
"I've heard him say that," Bob Sibert <James' son> said. "As an FBI agent, you're trained when you go to anything like this to observe and take detailed notes. The agents were not doctors. And at that time, the FBI had no jurisdiction in the assassination of a president. At the end, he was denying interviews. He said 'there's nothing left to say.'"