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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)there was found on analysis of Western Cartridge 6.5mm Carcano ammunition to be great variation in relative concentrations of trace elements within lots of bullets but not within a single bullet. Most ammunition did not share this characteristic. Neutron activation analyses of fragments found in the limousine (presumably from the head shot) showed significantly different concentrations of antimony and silver to CE399. Recovered fragments from the limousine also had striations and markings from the rifling of the weapon they were fired from and were ballistically matched to Oswald's rifle. And the results of separate analyses, done first in 1964 by the FBI, and second in 1977 for the HSCA, returned the same results.
Leaving aside the NAA results, you have a bullet, fired from Oswald's rifle, recovered from Connally's stretcher. You have fragments of a bullet, fired from Oswald's rifle, recovered from the presidential limousine. You have no evidence that more than three shots were fired; you have no evidence that more than two of those three shots struck their target. Both recovered bullets or fragments conclusively match Oswald's rifle to the exclusion of all other weapons. A rifle that was discovered in the TSBD where a majority of witnesses heard the shots fired from, and that had Oswald's palmprint on it. You have FOUR eyewitnesses who saw a rifle in the sixth floor window (one of whom saw the shooter and gave a description that broadly fit Lee Harvey Oswald). There is no evidence of other weapons, or of other shooters, or of more than three shots. No-one saw any other shooters. Over half the witnesses said the shots came from the TSBD (considering the acoustics of Dealey Plaza, it's not surprising that the echoes caused some confusion). Over four-fifths said there were only three shots. Kennedy's autopsy, and the forensic review of the autopsy records for the HSCA, established that he was struck by two bullets, fired from above and behind. The trajectory was recreated for the HSCA by a NASA scientist using precise angles and geolocation and found to match up with a shooter in the 6th floor TSBD window. The evidence of the Zapruder film shows Connally hit at the same time as Kennedy--his jacket can be seen to bulge outward from the bullet strike at Z-frame 224; he hunches his shoulders in the space of an eighteenth of a second, see here:
And here:
ALL of the evidence says: CE399 was the bullet which struck Connally, it struck Kennedy first, and it was fired from the sixth floor of the TSBD from Oswald's Carcano rifle.