FBI Evidence Proves Oswald's Ammunition was not Capable of Sufficient Accuracy to Kill JFK

[Bob Prudhomme]

Realized that I wrote down the wrong figure in the wrong column, so the length of the dented cartridge (CE 543) from base to shoulder is also 1.64". My bad.


So we have three "authentic" either Italian-made or WCC-made casings, (which have all been chambered more than once) for the M-C 91/38 present in the "sniper's nest." Strange then that the bullets recovered then don't appear to match the spent casings, and instead appear to be some sort of .25 cal bullet.

What I find odd is where Frazier came up with the diameter measurement of 6.65 mm for CE 399, which matches neither a .25 calibre bullet nor any 6.5 mm calibre rifle, nor any bullet on the planet outside of one experimental Swiss bullet developed for a NATO bid known as the 6.45x48mm XPL Swiss. It was not developed until 1979, though, and never went beyond the prototype stage.

As I said earlier, Frazier testified to the WC that he measured the diameter of the bullet in the unfired WCC cartridge found in the rifle from the 6th floor and determined the diameter to be 6.65 mm. In the same breath, he told the WC that this equated to a bullet .267" in diameter and that this was the correct diameter for a 6.5mm Carcano bullet. The real diameter is closer to .268" at .2677". A bullet 6.65 mm in diameter actually equates to an English measurement of .2618", much too small to be any other 6.5mm bullet (.264") and much too big to be a .25 calibre bullet at .257".

The most probable thing, to me at least, is that Frazier made an error in measuring the bullet in the unspent WCC cartridge by .5 mm, and the bullet was, in reality, 6.7 mm in diameter. This equates to .26378" or .264", the standard bullet diameter for every 6.5mm rifle except the 6.5mm Carcano, which, as we know, requires a bullet .268" in diameter to be accurate.