JFK Assassination Forum

Maybe you're a closet Fascist, and that's why you cherish "former" KGB counterintelligence officer Vladimir Putin and the traitorous orange turd he installed as our "president" on 20 January 2017 and 20 January 2025.

now you're a doctor?

Fantastic story.  This gets better and better.  There was a direct line of sight between the shooter and Trump.  So what "broken piece of something" do you think hit his right ear while he is standing?  If you want to believe that "shrapnel" from the bullet hit him, that is a distinction without any apparent difference.   The TDS mind won't allow Trump to have miraculously survived an attempt on his life and behaved heroically.  There is a firewall in the TDS programming that prohibits just acknowledging the obvious.

It looks like this is destined to be yet another JFKA loose end. You would think that Chapman's claim would have been a bombshell that would have generated more discussion than it did and led to further examination of CE 543. It seems like the basic issue is simply "Does CE 543 show evidence of having been struck with a firing pin more than once?"

The newspaper article I linked said Chapman was "recently interviewed" by the HSCA, but I didn't find anything relating to that. The HSCA firearms panel report deals with the "dent" issue but not really the "firing pin" issue.

Chapman died at age 60 (nothing mysterious) in 1991. I see that much of the conspiracy literature describes him as a "forensic scientist," perhaps to disguise that his expertise was medical (he was a medical examiner and pathologist). However, I did find one newspaper article describing him as an expert in ballistics. He was not a fan of the Magic Bullet, referring to it as "utter rubbish" (https://www.archives.gov/files/research/rfk/releases/2025/0612/00419462_newspaper_articles_concer_104-10068-10053.pdf).

There seems to be remarkably little discussion of his claims regarding CE 543. Michael Kurtz, in Crime of the Century, claimed that CE 557, an FBI test shell, confirmed Chapman's claims: "The F.B.I. also reproduced the effect. Commission Exhibit 557 is a test cartridge case, fired empty from Oswald's rifle by the F.B.I. for ballistics comparison purposes. It, too, contains the dent in the lip and deep primer impression similar to Case 543." (557 can't be right. He must be referring to 559, which is what Charles has posted. https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh17/html/WH_Vol17_0138b.htm.)