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Since it is obvious that lone-gunman theorists here are simply not going to admit that the HSCA FPP's SBT actually destroys the SBT, let us take a moment to revisit the fact that there were too many bullet fragments deposited in Connally's body to have come from CE 399, the SBT's alleged bullet.
In his 11/29/63 supplemental x-ray report on Connally's wounds, Dr. Jack Reynolds, Parkland Hospital's chief radiologist and later a professor or radiology at Southwestern Medical School, said the metal fragment in Connally's thigh measured approximately 3.5 mm x 1.3 mm on the AP x-ray and about 2.0 mm x 1.5 mm on the lateral x-ray, so it was definitely somewhat dense and not any kind of a "flake":
There is, however, one density which remains constant on both films and appears to lie beneath the skin of the region of the subcutaneous fat in the medial aspect of the thigh meters posterior to the exterior of the anterior cortex. The shape of this density is irregular but is roughly oval. Precise measurements are difficult but it is estimated that the greatest length in the AP projection is about 3.5 millimeters and the greatest width about 1.3 millimeters.
Measurements of the densities in the lateral projection reveal the greatest length to be about 2 millimeters and the greatest width to be about 1.5 millimeters The long axis of the metallic object is oriented generally along the axis of the femur. ("Supplemental Report Describing in Detail the Appearance and Location of a Small Metallic Density Superimposed on the Soft Tissue Shadows of the Medial Aspect of the Left Thigh of Governor John Connally on Films Dated November 22, 1963," 11/29/63, pp. 1-2)
In his 11/9/77 HSCA interview, Dr. Reynolds said the identifiable opacity in the thigh x-rays "definitely has metal characteristics" and that his 11/29/63 report describing "the location of this fragment" was "correct":
Dr. Reynolds stated that an identifiable opacity exists in the thigh x-rays and that it definitely has metal characteristics. He stated that his 11-29-62 report, describing the location of this fragment as just beneath the skin in the region of the subcutaneous fat, is correct. (7 HSCA 320)
In addition, Dr. Reynolds said there were "at least" four bullet fragments visible in Connally's wrist wound:
After examining the original and the enhanced x-rays, Dr . Reynolds stated that there are at least four fragments of metal identifiable in Gov. Connally's wrist wound (7 HSCA 320)
The wrist fragments and the thigh fragment could not have come from CE 399, given that the bullet was missing less than 4 grains of its substance. Russell Kent:
Dr. Gregory, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, testified that he removed two fragments (but left other small fragments in the wound). These became Warren Commission Exhibit (CE) 842 below in Figure 32. There is no explanation of how the two fragments became four.
On 29th November 1963, Parkland Memorial Hospital sent Connally’s x-rays to the FBI. The dimensions of the fragment left in his thigh, as shown on one of the x-rays, were 3.5 mm by 1.3 mm.
These are quite large fragments. It is reasonable to doubt that these fragments came from CE 399. (JFK Medical Betrayal: Where the Evidence Lies, pp. 210-211).
As I've pointed out previously, before they knew what they were supposed to say, before the SBT emerged as the explanation for JFK and Connally's non-fatal wounds, even Dr. Humes and Dr. Finck said that Dr. Gregory's 11/22/63 operative report described too many bullet fragments to have from CE 399 (2 H 374-375; 2 H 382).
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