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JFK Assassination Discussion & Debate / Re: Yet Another Bullet That the Lone-Gunman Theory Cannot Explain
« Last post by Michael T. Griffith on September 22, 2026, 03:49:52 PM »Quote from: Tim Nickerson on September 10, 2026, 02:15:06 AM
The memo is about the fragments removed from Connally. I posted it as an example of an FBI agent referring to bullet fragments as a bullet. If you were familiar with the subject, you wouldn't have ended up with your foot in your mouth.
That memo is clearly bullet and fragments. A bullet mentioned several times
I see exactly what it says. Call it stupidity all day long. He is referring to the bullet and what he was told about fragments.
How can you think a memo with the name OP Wright and the word bullet is referring to fragments as the same? I'm not aware of him finding - being given - or having anything to do - with any fragment from JBC or JFK. He only found a bullet.
You are of course undeniably correct. Wright played no role in handling the Connally wrist fragments, but he did play a role in the handling of the bullet that eventually became CE 399. The main subject of the memo is clearly the bullet that was removed from Connally, and the information about what Wright was told about the wrist fragments is an aside and is unrelated to the bullet.
But you'll never get Nickerson or Corbett to admit this fact. You've dealt with Corbett enough to know what he's all about.
Let me tell you a little about Nickerson: In my thread on why the back-of-head bullet fragments destroy the lone-gunman theory, he made the astonishing and hilarious claim that the 6.5 mm object and the 7 x 2 mm fragment are the same object, even though both objects can be plainly seen on the AP x-ray, even though they have different dimensions and shapes, and even though they are located at opposite ends of the skull. At first I thought he had misspoken, but he soon made it clear that he was actually making this argument. When I pointed out that both objects are clearly visible on the AP x-ray, that they are located at opposite ends of the skull, and that they look nothing like each other, he still refused to admit his blunder. Why? Because he knows that the 6.5 mm object is fatal to the lone-gunman theory.
So if he will not admit such an undeniable, bald-faced blunder as that, he's not about to admit that the Loeffler memo is clearly mainly talking about CE 399 and that the wrist fragments are an aside.
Objective readers will see that the likes of Nickerson and Corbett have nothing but strained, unreasonable, and disingenuous explanations for Dr. Young's straightforward, corroborated account. You couldn't ask for a more credible and powerful witness, not to mention a more decidedly hostile witness.
Since Dr. Young was such an ardent believer in the lone-gunman theory, WC apologists here don't dare accuse him of lying, so they must resort to the comical argument that it was either all a giant "misunderstanding" or an amazing hallucination.
Lame Explanation 1: Even though Dr. Young made it clear in his 11/23/63 notes that he saw the bullet, and even though he said that Chief Mills confirmed to him the finding of the bullet in the limo, and even though Chief Mills tacitly but clearly confirmed this, well, you know, gosh, this was all just a "misunderstanding" and Dr. Young really only just assumed the envelope contained a bullet.
Lame Explanation 2: Dr. Young, looked at two small metal fragments that made up a tiny fraction of a bullet's mass and somehow, someway experienced a hallucination and saw instead a brass-colored misshapen bullet with a bent tip! Or, Dr. Young was so exhausted on 11/23/63 from having been up most of the night at the autopsy and then the embalming that he somehow merely dreamed that he saw a bullet when in reality he had not seen it but had merely assumed the envelope contained a bullet, even though he described the bullet in the notes he wrote that day.
And Dr. Young was so thoroughly convinced from this giant misunderstanding or stunning delusion that when he learned that the Warren Report had not discussed the bullet, (1) he wrote to former President Gerald Ford to ask if he had any info about the bullet; (2) he asked Arlen Specter about the bullet and even sent Specter a copy of his 11/23/63 notes; (3) he phoned Chief Mills to ensure that his recollection about the bullet was accurate; and (4) he repeated this huge misunderstanding or amazing delusion in his third 2001 oral history interview and even read from his 11/23/63 notes during the interview! Even more amazingly, Chief Mills must have experienced the same incredible misunderstanding or hallucination because he clearly tacitly confirmed to Navy historian Jan Herman that he and Chief Martinell found a bullet in the limo.
Here's the problem: For WC apologists this is a do-or-die issue. They cannot admit that Dr. Young saw a bullet that was found in the limo during the autopsy because such an admission destroys the lone-gunman theory. Regardless of how credible Dr. Young was, regardless of the fact that he wrote his first account less than 24 hours after the autopsy, and regardless of the fact that Chief Mills corroborated his account, WC apologists aren't going to accept his account unless they're willing to abandon the lone-gunman theory.
Did you like Social Studies in school? Did you pay attention?