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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)"can't conclusively identify", but "appears to be" and "looks like". The chain of evidence is intact. And mitigating against the idea that the bullet was "planted"; it was found when Connally was in surgery. How could whoever planted it know that another bullet WOULD NOT be found in Connally's body? If that had happened, as was entirely possible and indeed likely you'd have absolute proof of conspiracy because there'd be too many bullets (and what if the one extracted didn't match Oswald's rifle?? Remember that Connally's physicians were perplexed by the lack of a missile and decided it probably fell out of the shallow thigh wound; the discovery of CE399 cleared up what happened. CE399 was tested and shown to have been fired from Oswald's rifle to the exclusion of all other weapons; lead from fragments recovered from Connally's wrist matches CE399. The trajectory works, it's been shown to work in recreations; see also this: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/Lattimer.txt
See also here re chain of custody on CE 399: http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/scientific_topics/naa/naa_and_assassination_ii/the_fragments.html
It is frankly impossible that CE 399 is not the bullet that struck Connally, on the basis of all the evidence. Saying "but the Parkland employees who found it couldn't identify it with 100% certainty" doesn't change that.