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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
(24,396 posts)fragments found in Connally being within the weight allowance for CE399 is strong evidence that CE399 was the bullet that hit both JFK and Connally.
It is even stronger evidence when coupled with the fact that no other bullets or bullet fragments were recovered outside of CE399 and fragments from the head shot bullet.
The Zapruder film also shows the bullet impacting Connally (frames 223-25), with JFK's reaction occurring the same instant, which is strong evidence that both men were struck by the same bullet.
Add it all up and it's convincing without the NAA.
Unless - of course - you subscribe to the theory that CE399 was fired before the assassination and later planted on the Parkland stretcher. Believing that opens up some interesting questions, for if CE 399 was faked and planted by conspirators, one needs to supply plausible answers to all of the following questions. Why did the conspirators:
Plant it in a location where it could easily have been lost?
Plant a bullet that was only "slightly" damaged if its role was to have passed through at least the President? Why not shoot up some livestock and get a bullet a bit more mangled?
Plant it before it could have been known how many other bullets would be recovered? How could they have known that CE 399 would not be the "one bullet too many" that would blow the whole plot?
Plant the bullet so it was found before it was known how much lead was in JFK's neck/upper back, let alone knowing how much lead was in Connally? What if a big chunk of lead was found in JFK's neck or upper back, a chunk too big to have come from CE 399?
The fact is that CE399 WAS found on the Parkland stretcher. One needs to come up for a plausible explanation for how a bullet that was scientifically proved to have fired from Oswald's gun came to be on that stretcher less than an hour after JFK was gunned down.
Finally, if CE399 was not the bullet that impacted both JFK & Connally, where is the bullet that did hit both men? Or, where are the multiple bullets that hit both men separately? No other bullets have ever been found outside of those fired by Oswald. The first bullet to impact JFK moved downward through his body, exiting his neck. Where did it go? The trajectory says it would have ended up in the limo, embedded in the car somewhere, in a seat, a floorboard, the dashboard. But there were no bullets embedded there. No holes in the floorboards indicating a bullet exited the car.
And where is the evidence of a bullet beside CE399 hitting Connally? His wounds also show a downward trajectory from his back toward his thigh. Where is that bullet, which would have stayed in the car based on its trajectory (well, we know the answer - it was CE399).
Got any answers for the above?