It passed between at least five people before coming into possession of the FBI firearms examiner who forensically matched it with Oswald’s sixth-floor rifle to “ the exclusion of all other firearms”. Evidence put before the Warren Commission could not positively establish if the bullet was found on Kennedy’s stretcher or Connally’s and the bullet’s chain of custody was not clearly recorded. The bullet had obviously been fired as it displayed the engraved striations from the lands and grooves of a rifle barrel. The perforation was partly obliterated during an emergency tracheostomy and the president’s body was not rolled to inspect for a back wound.Īround 2:00 pm a Parkland hospital worker found an intact bullet between the pad and metal side flange on one of the Kennedy entourage stretchers. Most of the medical staff who treated JFK observed a tiny hole in his throat that they assumed was a bullet’s entrance wound. He was laid on a different stretcher, taken to another part of the ER where, despite a gallant resuscitation effort, President Kennedy was declared dead at 1:00 pm. Kennedy was unconscious with a massive head wound, a punctured neck, and in the last gasps of life. He was put onto a stretcher and wheeled into the Emergency Room, then transferred to an operating theater and surgically treated for wounds to his chest, wrist, and thigh. Connally remained conscious and was partly able to stand. The motorcade rushed to Parkland Hospital, five minutes away. Oswald fled, leaving his rifle and three expended cartridges behind. An estimated 11.49 seconds elapsed from the first trigger pull and allowed Oswald plenty of time to reload the bolt-action rifle twice.

Oswald’s third shot was from 265 feet and it killed Kennedy. Oswald’s second shot was fired approximately 6.57 seconds later from a 21-degree downward angle, at 189 feet, and is purported to have wounded both Kennedy and Connally. The best guess is that it hit a traffic light and deflected. Oswald fired his first shot from a distance of about 77 feet and missed. Dealey PlazaĪt 12:30 pm the Kennedy motorcade rounded a tight left turn from Houston Street and headed west onto Elm Street in Dealey Plaza, right below the southeast, sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository where Lee Oswald was concealed with his 6.5 X 52 mm Mannlicher-Carcano military surplus rifle. But was it? Here’s what the investigation, ballistic design, and forensic science tell us about CE399-the “ magic” bullet. It had to be planted, conspiracy theorists tell you-set up to frame Lee Harvey Oswald- or else the bullet had to be magic. To this day, three-quarters of Americans believe it’s impossible for one missile to perform incredible feats of altering trajectory, piercing seventeen layers of clothing, four layers of skin, fifteen inches of flesh, smash a rib and a wrist bone before coming to rest entirely intact in a thigh, then be suspiciously found and conclusively matched to the alleged assassin’s rifle. This “ perfect” bullet has been held as proof of conspiracy in the JFK Assassination for over fifty years. It was later recovered intact on a hospital stretcher in what’s been described as “ pristine” condition and became the cornerstone of the Warren Commission’s Single Bullet Theory that postulates one bullet did tremendous damage to two men and came out looking like new. This bullet allegedly cut clean through his neck, exited below his Adam’s Apple, and carried on to severely wound Texas Governor John Connally who was seated ahead of the President in the limousine. Officially, this bullet is known as Warren Commission Exhibit 399 and was said to strike JFK approximately 4.92 seconds earlier. The other bullet-the one that got Kennedy in the back, at the base of his neck-is far more controversial.

Most people have seen frame 313 of the Zapruder Film that shows the president’s head exploding and there’s little dispute in the timing, nor placement, of this shot. The fatal bullet struck Kennedy in the top of his head and, literally, blew out his brains. Kennedy suffered two gunshot wounds during his assassination in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.

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