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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)it was reported by Tomlinson as "copper-coloured" (which identifies it as being consistent with Carcano ammunition); he said "it resembles the bullet I found" (which is the most you could expect; a bullet is a bullet, one can't reasonably expect someone who had only given it a cursory examination and passed it on to the Secret Service to be able to say "this bullet which looks like many other bullets is 100% definitely the one I found". See this:
and also here. (There is no person called Bardwell Odum in the chain of possession. Odum was a Secret Service agent who interviewed OP Wright at Parkland regarding the bullet in January of 1964. This is, again, conflation of unrelated events and facts.)
And the answer is quite simple as to how a bullet fired by Oswald's rifle was found on Connally's stretcher, Connally was SHOT with a bullet from Oswald's rifle, which first struck Kennedy and then him and passed through his body being deflected by a rib, hitting his wrist and then penetrating the thigh (shallowly, look at the description of the wounds). This is expected behaviour for a FMJ bullet that passes through soft tissue without striking bone (as it did when hitting Kennedy). The single bullet trajectory not only works, it's the only explanation for the wounds on both men (since almost all witnesses agreed that there were only three shots fired, and one was a miss).