How do you know Tomlinson didn't find it?
Because he handed the bullet he found to O P Wright who stated, unequivocally, that it was not CE399.
This is the reason why both Tomlinson and Wright refused to identify CE399 as the bullet they handled that day.
That's how I know Tomlinson didn't find CE399.
Now, back to you Thomas - Where do you get the idea from that CE399 was found at Parkland?
Danny Boy,
Why was there an FBI report stating Wright was shown CE-399 and that he said it resembled the bullet he'd seen at Parkland on 11/22/63?
Regardless, since CE-399 has Oswald's Carcano's ballistics marks on it, we know that somebody fired CE-399 from Oswald's Carcano.
If Oswald didn't fire CE-399 from his Carcano on 11/22/63, then the bad guys must have fired it before then.
How did the bad guys:
1) Take possession of Oswald's Carcano (and ammunition) without his knowing about it?
2) Return it to Ruth Paine's garage before the assassination?
3) Deform CE-399 the way it ended up: 1) with no damage to its nose, but with 2) 1/3 to 1/2 of its length flattened towards the rear, 3) a longitudinal twist, and 4) lead core extruded from its base?
4)
Why did the bad guys (somehow magically) deform CE-399 the way it ended up -- with
no damage to the nose, with 1/3 to 1/2 of its length flattened towards the rear, with a longitudinal twist, and with lead core extruded from its base?
Did they want people to think that it had started tumbling when it exited something soft, and that it then sideswiped something hard while it was twirling / tumbling? Because after all, that's the only way it could have been deformed the way that it was --
with no damage to the nose, but with 1/3 to 1/2 of its length flattened towards the rear, with a longitudinal twist, and with lead core extruded from its base.
-- Tom
PS If CE-399 isn't the same bullet that was allegedly "planted" on Connally's stretcher, why would the bad guys plant a pointy-nosed bullet (of the sort that O. P. Wright kept in his drawer and perhaps liked to fondle) there, instead?