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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)because a) if Kennedy and Connally had been struck by separate bullets, the hypothetical bullet that struck Kennedy would have had to go somewhere. No other bullet was found in the limousine. No bullet holes from another bullet were found in the upholstery or bodywork. (The only damage to the limousine: cracked windscreen, dent in the windscreen frame from a fragment from the headshot, and a fragment in the floorboard). CE399: if it didn't come from Connally's thigh, where did it come from? It can't possibly have been planted, because: anyone doing so would have NO WAY of knowing another bullet wouldn't be found (Connally was still in surgery).
Again: based on a number of factors, including the fact that Kennedy's wound in the upper back was a wound of entry, and that there was a wound of exit in his throat; relative seating postions of Kennedy and Connally (Connally, six inches lower and six inches to the left, more or less); the trajectory from the sixth-floor window (the only place the shots could have come from, based on forensic analysis of the wounds and reconstruction of the trajectory); the single bullet is entirely consistent with the wounds on both men and the known behaviour of full-metal-jacket ammunition. There were no fragments in Kennedy from that wound; the weight of CE399, plus the fragments recovered from Connally and those remaining in his body, is consistent with the weight of an intact bullet.
All of the forensic reconstructions and recreations show that the trajectory works AND that a bullet exiting Kennedy's throat would HAVE to strike Connally. (There have been many reconstructions of the shooting, using photographic evidence to deduce the relative positions of Connally and Kennedy in the limousine and the vehicle's location on Elm Street relative to the 6th floor window.)
This isn't just about the neutron activation analysis. ALL of the other evidence confirms and supports that both Kennedy and Connally were wounded by a single bullet.