CHEMICAL AND FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF JFK ASSASSINATION BULLET LOTS : IS A SECOND SHOOTER POSSIBLE?
2007
The assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK)
traumatized the nation. In this paper we show that evidence used
to rule out a second assassin is fundamentally flawed. This
paper discusses new compositional analyses of bullets reportedly
to have been derived from the same batch as those used in the
assassination. The new analyses show that the bullet fragments
involved in the assassination are not nearly as rare as
previously reported. In particular, the new test results are
compared to key bullet composition testimony presented before
the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). Matches of
bullets within the same box of bullets are shown to be much more
likely than indicated in the House Select Committee on
Assassinations’ testimony. Additionally, we show that one of the
ten test bullets is considered a match to one or more
assassination fragments. This finding means that the bullet
fragments from the assassination that match could have come from
three or more separate bullets. Finally, this paper presents a
case for reanalyzing the assassination bullet fragments and
conducting the necessary supporting scientific studies. These
analyses will shed light on whether the five bullet fragments
constitute three or more separate bullets. If the assassination
fragments are derived from three or more separate bullets, then
a second assassin is likely, as the additional bullet would not
easily be attributable to the main suspect, Mr. Oswald, under
widely accepted shooting scenarios [see Posner (1993), Case
Closed, Bantam, New York].
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