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In reply to the discussion: Justice for JFK [View all]stopbush
(24,392 posts)Nobody is saying that the bullet didn't break the bone in Connelly's lower arm. I am disputing your assertion that the bullet passed through the bone in his wrist. It didn't. The back end of the bullet - not the nose - impacted on the surface of his wrist. If you look at the x-ray provided by Octafish, you can see the metal fragments on the surface of the wrist bone that show where the bullet impacted and *glanced off* the wrist bone. The fracture to the bone happens below this impact area.
The bullet didn't have to pass through the bone to snap the bone below his wrist. If you extend your arm and I whack it with a baseball bat, you'll probably end up with a broken bone or two even though the baseball bat didn't pass through your arm/bone.
You asserted that CE399 could not have been in such "pristine" condition after passing through tissue and bone. Well, it didn't pass through any bones. It impacted bone without passing through it. By the time the bullet hit Connelly's wrist, it had lost the velocity to pass through bone, but it still had enough velocity to cause a fracture to the bone. How hard is that to understand?
The forensic evidence proves that the bullet was tumbling as it entered Connelly's wrist. In fact - and this is critical - it was the BACK END of the bullet that impacted the bone in his wrist, NOT the nose of the bullet. Tests performed with bullets shot directly into wrists showed that much greater damage is done when the nose of a pristine bullet (ie: a bullet that hasn't hit anything else before being shot into the wrist) encounters only the wrist, rather than what occurs when the bullet impacting the wrist has already been through several layers of tissue and fibers and is tumbling as a result of passing through tissues and fibers.
The facts are stunning in their obviousness and simplicity: the nose of CE399 never hit bone as it passed through JFK and Connelly. Only the back end of the bullet encountered bone, and that was only at the point of impact in Connelly's wrist. The back end of the bullet struck the wrist because the bullet was already yawing as it entered Connelly's back and continued to tumble as it exited his chest and struck his wrist. The bullet had enough velocity left to fracture the bone, but it didn't have the velocity nor the orientation to pass through the wrist bone.
There's nothing magical there. Tests performed by the WC got the identical results.
Funny how the CTists come up with these grand and all-encompassing theories while ignoring the highly detailed evidence in the case, as if it's a minor detail that a bullet is tumbling through tissue at a decreased velocity, rather than striking a wrist nose-first at full velocity. Yet forensic evidence is always about the details. You'd think that the kind of evidence that people find compelling when staged for shows like CSI would garner at least a cursory look when the subject is the shooting of a president.
Apparently, it isn't.
How convenient. How blasé.