JFK: The Conspiracy and Truth Behind the Assassination by Colonel John Hughes-Wilson

Author:Colonel John Hughes-Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Blake

The mysterious path of Exhibit CE 399, Warren’s ‘magic bullet’.

‘Exhibit CE 399’ was in fact found on a stretcher at the Dallas Parkland Hospital by an engineer, Dwight C. Tomlinson. He saw a used stretcher against the wall. US government investigators claimed later that this ‘must have been Governor Connally’s stretcher.’

However, Connally’s stretcher had been placed empty in Trauma Room 2, according to Diana Bowron, the nurse who tended to the President. The stretcher in the hallway had been used by a small boy who had been treated next to TR1. As Tomlinson pushed the stretcher to one side a bullet rolled on to the floor. He picked it up and it was collected by one of the President’s security detail.

Unsurprisingly we find that the ubiquitous Jack Ruby was identified at Parkland Hospital at just this time. He was milling about with the waiting crowd at Parkland and could easily have planted the fired round – as could anyone else. By itself, the mysterious loose bullet on the stretcher at Parkland Hospital proves nothing.

But that 6.5mm bullet, and the circumstances of its discovery, were to become central to the government’s case. According to them, the bullet found on the stretcher must have fallen out of Governor Connally’s thigh wound. If it did, it must truly have been a magic bullet, because when the weight of the minor fragments of copper and lead left in Connally’s thigh and wrist are added to the 100% correct weight of CE 399, then it would prove that the bullet had somehow managed to put on weight after being fired . . .

Any claim that CE 399 was the bullet that caused all the wounds can be shown to be completely false. First of all, any bullet found outside a body is circumstantial evidence, by definition. Secondly, the trajectories of the bullets and the wounds don’t match up. The sixth floor of the depository is 60ft high. When the rounds struck the presidential car 150ft away, they came from different heights. (See diagram p.185.) By tracking the wounds back, we can get a clear indication of where the gunmen really were. Projecting a laser back from the key points of impact and at the angle of the wounds provides some interesting results. The first shot into Kennedy’s throat came from the front, from a point slightly above the limousine in the grassy knoll area. The second shot, which hit Kennedy in the back, appears to have come from a second floor window in the Dal-Tex building, not the depository. The third and fatal shot came from slightly above and to the right, from the area of the picket fence on the grassy knoll. That is the bullet that blew his head apart.

Governor Connally’s wounds are less conclusive. But what is clear is that the bullet that hit him in the right back and blew out part of his chest was fired from behind. However the flat path of the bullet rules out a hit from the top windows of the depository.

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