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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)I never said stretcher B was Kennedy's stretcher, you have taken that speculation out of the FBI report itself. The FBI report does not actually identify the stretcher that Tomlinson claims the bullet fell out of. If Kennedy remained on his stretcher, then it could not have been Kennedy's, could it?
All I know is that Tomlinson claims the bullet fell out from an unrelated stretcher and that is the one he picked up. If you assume that Tomlinson made a mistake, then it is possible that the bullet actually fell out of Connolly's stretcher. One could just as easily assume that the bullet came from elsewhere, and it was convenient for the FBI's case to draw the conclusion that it came from Connolly's stretcher.
Sorry but neither of your links definitively proves where the bullet came from. Your second link merely states:
"Although Tomlinson was not certain whether the bullet came from the Connally stretcher or the adjacent one, the Commission has concluded that the bullet came from the Governor's stretcher."
As I point out in the previous post, Tomlinson's testimony appears to indicate the adjacent stretcher.
The bullet does not necessarilly have to be deliberately planted by the FBI or Secret Service. A hospital worker could have found the bullet and placed it on the other gurney not knowing what to do with it, since there were obviously more important matters to attend to. There are endless possibilities as to how it got there.