29-06-2014, 10:46 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:I don't think the author is meaning to say that a FMJ can't leave fragments, he's saying that the number and character of the fragments in JFK's neck (or head) isn't consistent with FMJ ammo. By which I assume he means that in a passage through soft tissue (as is allegedly the case with the passage through JFK's neck) the FMJ won't leave fragments.
By the time the bullet (of whatever type) has reached Connally's wrist, it has contacted at least 1 bone, and we should expect fragments.
One other possibility: Connally's bullet was FMJ, and Kennedy's bullets weren't.
"One other possibility: Connally's bullet was FMJ, and Kennedy's bullets weren't"
Now you're thinking!
Mr. HILL. The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964