Reply #215: Of course, the bullet was not at all pristine.

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Here's the bullet seen from the bottom with lead extruding from the base.



The bullet was also bent. It was not straight

Ballistics tests matched the bullet to Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to the exclusion of all other guns in the world.

Bullet fragments taken from Connally were matched to bullet CE399. The total amount of lead fragments in Connally's body including the volume of bullet fragments that remained in his body until the day he died were consistent with and did not exceed the amount of lead that was missing from the recovered bullet.

Anybody who wants to posit that CE 399 was faked and planted by conspirators needs to supply plausible answers to all of the following questions. Why did the conspirators:

1. Plant it in a location where it could easily have been lost?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. 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?

As far as the bullet striking both men, the CT numbnuts falsely claim the men were positioned like this in the limo, averring that the bullet had to make a "magical" mid-air course change to strike Connally:


Implying that the bullet could not have hit both men.

But the truth is that JFK was seated in the back seat along the side of the car, while Connally was seated on a jump seat in front of JFK that was set in 6-inches from the side of the car and about 3 to 4-inches lower (IIRC)than JFK's seat:


This photograph clearly shows the correct seating positions of both men, and confirms that a bullet entering JFK's upper back and exiting his throat at a downward angle of 25-degrees had nowhere else to go BUT into Connally.


This photograph -taken after the limo was returned to DC - clearly shows the positions of the back seat and the jump seat, and how the jump seat was inset from the side of the limo:

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Which begs the question: if the bullet didn't hit Connally, what did it do? Did it evaporate into thin air?

Now, THAT would be a magic bullet!