Inexplicable Wounds made by Special Bullets

[Bob Prudhomme]

As I said earlier, the ballistic and forensic evidence in this case isn't reliable enough to be able to draw any definite conclusions about the type of weapons used. It took me many years to realize that.

As you say, though, without reliable ballistic and forensic evidence, we cannot draw any definite conclusions about the SBT, and Dale Myers is allowed to go on thrilling the sheeple with his cartoon; impossible as it is.

No, I did not say we can't draw any conclusions about the SBT. The SBT is crap for many reasons. CE399 was obviously fired into a water tank, probably by the FBI. It wasn't the bullet found at Parkland.

It's pretty well established that a huge number of witnesses heard a popping noise, then a pause, then two loud bangs very close together. From that, we can establish: a) at least two types of weapons were used, b) the two loud bangs could not be produced by one bolt-action Carcano, c) any additional shots were probably fired by weapons using silencers.

A lot of what we can figure out about this case is essentially "negative truth" or "negative knowledge" - we can tell what didn't happen. From that, hopefully we can eliminate enough possibilities to figure out what DID happen, but that's not always possible.

Of course, the "popping" or "firecracker" noise heard at the time of the first shot could have been a Carcano rifle modified to accept a suppressor, or "silencer", as you refer to them.

It is also important to remember that, if there were any additional shots fired by rifles equipped with silencers (suppressors), the same telltale "firecracker" sound should have been heard from them. As rifle bullets have high muzzle velocities they are supersonic (faster than the speed of sound at 1125 ft/second) and silencers only silence the muzzle blast. They do nothing to mask the sound of the bullet breaking the sound barrier, heard by Dealey Plaza witnesses as a firecracker like noise.

It can be argued that subsonic weapons, such as handguns equipped with silencers, were used in the assassination, thus eliminating the sonic boom and totally silencing the handgun, but this also is highly unlikely. These weapons, with their short barrels and subsonic muzzle velocities, are notoriously inaccurate and are meant for shooting targets at close range. While many have argued that the Remington Fireball XP-100 .221 calibre handgun was used for the final shot by a gentleman named James Files, it should be noted that this weapon used a small rifle cartridge that propelled a 50 grain bullet at a muzzle velocity of 2650 ft/second; more than twice the speed of sound. Even if the Fireball was equipped with a silencer, the telltale sound of its bullet breaking the sound barrier would have been audible to bystanders.


It is possible, when accounting for the number of shots fired vs. the number of shots heard, that this assassination was a very well coordinated event, and that the sound of two unsuppressed rifle shots .7 seconds apart masked the sonic boom of other suppressed shots fired at the same moment. This kind of coordinated fire speaks volumes about the qualifications of those doing the shooting, and the coordinators.