Reply #99: Boy, you're wrong on so much that it's impossible to know where to start.

[stopbush]

Let's start with using Wikipedia as your primary source on the matter.

Beyond that, a full metal jacketed bullet is a bullet that is designed to pass through a person and exit their body, just as it did with JFK. That's exactly the type of bullet a professional/contract assassin would NOT use. They would use a soft-nosed bullet that would break up in tissue and cause more damage as it made its way through the victim's body. CE399 IS the kind of bullet a military man like Oswald would be familiar with, and, the 6.5 mm bullet is the ONLY ammo that the MC rifle would accept.

The bullet CE399 was not pristine. Lead was extruding from its base as seen in this photo and the bullet was bent (testimony of Dr Michael Baden for the HSCA):



Ballistics tests performed on the rifle matched CE399 to Oswald's rifle to the exclusion of all other weapons in the world. The striations on the bullet matched it to the rifling thread in the barrel of Oswald's MC. I was not aware that clothing threads could cause striations on a full metal jacket bullet. Perhaps someone is misreading the word thread in this context.

Of course, anyone averring that CE399 was planted at Parkland must provide logical answers to these logical questions:

Why did the conspirators . . .

• Plant it in a location where it could easily have been lost?
• Plant a bullet that was only "slightly" damaged if its role was to have passed through at least the President? Why not shoot up some livestock and get a bullet a bit more mangled?
• Plant it before it could have been known how many other bullets would be recovered? How could they have known that CE 399 would not be the "one bullet too many" that would blow the whole plot?
• Plant the bullet so it was found before it was known how much lead was in JFK's neck/upper back? What if a big chunk of lead was found in JFK's neck or upper back, a chunk too big to have come from CE 399?