From: waf9851@zeus.tamu.edu (FULLER, WALTER ANDREW III)
Subject: Re: CIA Agent confesses to buying rifles
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 03:39:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.184111.22545@qualcomm.com>, 
karn@servo.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) writes...

>The "magic" bullet was not as pristine as is often alleged. It was
>significantly flattened sideways, and it had small pieces missing.

The "magic" bullet was most certainly NOT significantly flattened! Just
look at the picture.

>This was entirely consistent with the theory that it passed through
>Kennedy's neck and Connally's chest without hitting any bone until it
>finally hit Connally's wrist and stopped. 

Correction! As all medical records and even the Warren Commission show, 
whatever it was that passed through the Governor's chest most certainly 
did hit and *shatter* one of his ribs!

>By this time the bullet had
>lost so much energy from passing through flesh that it did not
>disintegrate. 

Again, one need only consult easily available records. The bullet which
wounded the Governor did disentigrate. Several pieces of it were recovered
from his body. In fact, more metal was recovered from the Governor's
body than is "missing" from the "magic" bullet!


>This theory has been strongly supported by ballistics tests and
>analyses of the bullet's orientation and velocity at each point in its
>flight. Have you repeated these tests yourself, or are you simply
>asserting what you think "must" be true? If the latter, I'll go with
>the test results, at least until they are demonstrated to be invalid
>by somebody other than an armchair conspiracist.

What ballistics tests?? I challenge you on this!!!! I must now ask you:

   Are you asserting what you "think" must be true?


>No? Then what caused the bullet holes in Kennedy and Connally? Remember
>that the limo and surrounding area on Elm Street were thoroughly
>searched for evidence of further bullets.

Yes, the area was thoroughly searched. And in case you forgot, a bullet
"nick" on the curb just beyond the position of the motorcade was found. In
fact, a bystander was "nicked" by the piece of concrete disloged by this
bullet strike.

>Well, finding bullets and bullet fragments in the limo and on
>Connally's stretcher that were shown to have been fired from Oswald's
>rifle to the exclusion of all other weapons, plus immediate eyewitness

>It does when the recovered bullets were identified as 6.5mm and were
>shown to have come from the C2766 rifle (Oswald's) to the exclusion
>of all other weapons...

You're right about the ballistics tests which show that the "magic" bullet
was fired from the rifle found in the TSBD. What you are not also
revealing is that several ballistics experts testified that in their
opinion the "magic" bullet never came into contact with a solid during
its firing (not to mention a human body).  They further testified that
the notion of this bullet wounding two humans (shattering a rib and a 
wristbone in one of them) and yet emerging in its pristine state was
inconsistent with all knowledge and principles of forensics and
ballistics. To this day, no reputable forensic pathologist or ballistics
expert has ever maintained that the "magic" bullet did what the Warren
Commission claims it did.

As an interesting side note, the ballistics experts called upon by the
Warren Commission test fired the Oswald rifle numerous times in an effort
to "duplicate" the "magic bullet". Even when firing the bullet into a tube
of cotton, the bullet was found to have more distortion than the "magic"
bullet. I can't help but wonder if *this* is the ballistics tests you
referenced earlier. If it is, you severely missed the point of its
findings! 


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