Come on Bill, they didn't match them to the gun. The same could be said of any mangled .38 slug from the local shooting range.
Yeah just any old bullet huh Gary? Not quite, it would have to be the same caliber, the same type, the same twist to the rifling, the same direction of twist to the rifling, it would have had to have been fired from a weapon with a slightly over sized barrel..... The bullets removed from Tippit had ALL these class characteristics, and so did the test bullets from Oswald's revolver. In point of fact, Frazier and Nicol both examined these, and Nicol did find a match. HE stated that one bullet removed from Tippit was from Oswlad's pistol to the exclusion of all other pistols in the world.
Of course you have made the claim that Nicol, an expert with over 20 years experience lied to the commission, or for the commission.
You make this ridiculous claim not even comprehending the ramifications for Nicol is such were to be true.
This is just silly. How many bullet theories does it take to make LHO look guilty. Add the LTBT (Lost Tippit Bullet Theory) to the SBT (Single Bullet Theory).
So hold on a minute here cowboy. Are you now recanting your previous claims that Oswald was a very poor shot? Are you now claiming that he would never have had a miss?
No, they weren't found when he was arrested in the Texas Theater.
Lets take a look.
LHO is arrested @ approximately 1:55pm.
He is searched @ 4:05pm and five live rounds of .38 calibre pistol shells are found in his left front pocket.
2+ hours to search a murder suspect who was arrested with a weapon in his possession?
What's wrong with this scenerio?
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LoginUm.....Yeah bullets were found at the Texas Theater Gary. They were found in the revolver after it was taken from Oswald. CE518 and CE145 are the bullets that were recovered from that revolver.
What were they?
Mr. EISENBERG. Mr. Cunningham, I hand you
Commission Exhibits Nos. 145 and 518, which, for the record, consist of bullets,
unfired bullets which were found in the revolver and the pocket of Lee Harvey Oswald following his arrest on November 22. I ask you whether you are familiar with the bullets in these exhibits.
You are now looking at which exhibit, Mr. Cunningham?
Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Commission Exhibit 518.
I have seen them before.
Mr. EISENBERG. Can you describe these bullets very briefly?
Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Yes, sir.
They are cartridges. There are four cartridges. Two are Western .38 Special with copper-coated lead bullets loaded into these cartridges. The other two are Remington-Peters .38 Special cartridges, which are loaded with lead bullets. The exact same mix of ammunition used to kill Tippit.
So your claim that no rounds were found at the location of the Texas Theater is incorrect.
Mr. BELIN. Now I am going to hand you what has been marked Commission Exhibit 143. Would you state if you know what this is?
Mr. HILL. This is a .38 caliber revolver, Smith & Wesson, with a 2" barrel that would contain six shells. It is an older gun that has been blue steeled, and has a worn wooden handle.
Mr. BELIN. Have you ever seen this gun before?
Mr. HILL. I am trying to see my mark on it to make sure, sir. I don't recall specifically where I marked it, but I did mark it, if this is the one. I don't remember where I did mark it, now.
Here it is, Hill right here, right in this crack.
Hill has his mark on the revolver, it is unquestionably the one from Oswald.
Mr. BELIN. All right, then, would you tell us what happened? What was said and what was done?
Mr. HILL. Then I broke the gun open to see how many shells it contained and how many live rounds it had in it.
Mr. BELIN. How many did you find?
Mr. HILL. There were six in the chambers of the gun. One of them had an indention in the primer that appeared to be caused by the hammer. There were five others. All of the shells at this time had indentions.
All of the shells appeared to have at one time or another scotch tape on them because in an area that would have been the width of a half inch strip of scotch tape, there was kind of a bit of lint and residue on the jacket of the shell.
Mr. BELIN. Did you ever mark those?
Mr. HILL. I can say that I marked all six of them.
Mr. BELIN. I am first going to hand you what has been marked as Q-178 on the lead portion. It is 178 or 170. It appears to be Q-178, with the initials JH running together and CK, and then another initial R, with a dash behind it.
Do you see any identification mark of yours on there at all?
Mr. HILL. Yes, sir; on the side of the jacket of the bullet there is the name scratched H-i-l-l, and also the initials BC. I scratched the H-i-l-1 on this shell, and Bob Carroll scratched the BC on it in my presence in the personnel office of the police department on the third floor.
Mr. BELIN. What is that?
Mr. HILL. This is one of the shells which is a .38 special-shell that was removed from the suspect's weapon, removed from the weapon that was taken from the suspect at the time of his arrest.
Mr. BELIN. When was it removed?
Mr. HILL. They were not taken out of the gun, as I recall, sir, until we arrived at the station.
Mr. BELIN. Who took it out of the gun?
Mr. HILL. I took it out of the gun.
Mr. BELIN. Did you keep it in your possession until you put on your initials?
Mr. HILL. All six shells remained in my possession until I initialed them.
Hill removed them himself and they were in his possession until they were marked.
These bullets, and revolver are Oswald's there is no doubt.
