Word: bullet
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...Wecht and other skeptics, that was an impossibility. Oswald's alleged perch gave him a line of fire toward Kennedy of slightly left to right. Connally was seated in front of Kennedy. Yet the bullet exited from Kennedy's neck, grazing the left side of his tie knot. How then could it strike the right side of Connally? Only, scoffs Wecht, by "making an acute right turn in mid-air." That might be true if both Kennedy and Connally were seated stiffly upright and facing straight ahead at the time Kennedy was first hit. But there...
...ammunition with rifles identical to Oswald's. He notes that as a seated person turns to the right to look directly behind, he invariably first shifts his upper body slightly to the left. Such a movement could have aligned the two men to account for the single-bullet wounds. Moreover, the wound in Connally's back is not neatly circular; its vertical dimension is longer. Only a bullet that has struck something else and is tumbling would leave such a mark. The shape of Connally's thigh wound indicates that this turning bullet entered his leg backward...
Connally has insisted that he could not have been hit by the same bullet that struck Kennedy's neck. He testified he heard a shot, turned to his right to look at Kennedy, could not see him, and began turning back toward his left before he was hit. The commission lawyers believe that Connally, like so many witnesses to the events, was mistaken. He may have heard a shot before he was hit, they say, but perhaps it was the shot that missed both men. They note that Connally did not even know he had been...
Critics of the single-bullet theory also dwell on the relatively undamaged condition of the bullet recovered near Connally's stretcher at Parkland Hospital. They marvel sarcastically at all of the wounds this bullet is supposed to have inflicted, while remaining so "pristine." The bullet is only slightly flattened at its rear, with a mere 2 to 2.5 grains of its soft lead core missing...
Ballistics experts have fired this type of bullet through 25 in. of tough elmwood and 47 in. of pine-and it has come to rest similarly intact (on the other hand, it has also been fired through cotton wadding and emerged misshapen). Lattimer has cut up two grains of this bullet's lead core and found they would yield 41 fragments-more than found in Connally's wounds. No one has estimated the weight of the metal X-rayed in or recovered from Connally at more than two grains. Thus, although this bullet is surprisingly undamaged, its condition...