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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: Yet Another Bullet That the Lone-Gunman Theory Cannot Explain
« Last post by John Corbett on Yesterday at 12:48:50 PM »That's not the essay though.
You are probably right. MTG had said Young had made the claim about the "brass slug" in his "What Price a Rose" essay. The version of the essay I found online contained no such reference. When he insisted it was I did a google search for "James Young What Price a Rose" and this web page was one that came up. I did a find-on-page looking for the quote MTG had claimed had been made. When I found the reference to the "brass slug", I decided MTG had been right about the quote and assumed it was from "What Price a Rose". Going back, it now appears to me that during the interview, Young had been reading from the notes he took and not his essay. It appears MTG and I both made the same mistake in believing it came from the essay. It's a little confusing because the article does say at some point Young was reading from his essay. Whether he was reading from the essay or his notes, it does appear Young did make the claim in his 2001 interview. The question then becomes was his observation a correct one. The lack of corroboration from any other source seems to indicate that Young was confused. It also makes no sense that the Secret Service would have sent the bullet to Bethesda when all the fragments they found were turned over to the FBI. I can understand why the bone fragments would be important to the prosectors, but what reason would there be to send them the ballistic evidence.
On another issue, the HSCA Outside Contact Report in which Captain John Stover denied he saw a whole bullet at Bethesda also indicates Stover did not remember the prosectors examining the adrenal glands. Since Young brought up the subject of JFK's adrenal glands in his interview, I'm wondering if at least some of the questions the HSCA asked Stover were based on comments Young had made. I know the interview was many years after the HSCA did their work but it's very possible they had talked to Young before they talked to Stover and was looking to Stover to confirm or deny some of Young's claims.
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