CE 399 was probably fired into a folded up mattress a couple of days before the assassination and planted wherever it was found by perhaps Jack Ruby.
The bullet being planted makes little sense to me, as there would have been no certainty for the conspirators that it would be found to serve the purpose for which it was planted.
If the bullet now in evidence as CE399 is not the bullet Tomlinson found, a more likely scenario would IMO be the original Parkland bullet being switched with one fired by the MC rifle into cotton wool as part of a cover up. Such a scenario would actually fit with the first four persons in the chain of custody not being able to identify the bullet, with Wright, in an interview, describing a different, more pointed, bullet and the lack of any trace of human tissue or fibers on the bullet as well as the minimal damage to the bullet.
Perhaps it was just happenstance that Tomlinson found an unrelated bullet.
The bullet being planted makes little sense to me, as there would have been no certainty for the conspirators that it would be found to serve the purpose for which it was planted.
True...Unless.... The finder was given the bullet and told to say that he found it at the scene, at Parkland....
I was schocked to learn that Darrel Tomlinson apparently hated JFK.... ( I don't know why I assumed that he was just an average citizen without strong sentiments about JFK.
Tomlinson avoided reporters and wouldn't talk about his role in the story......But several years after the murder of JFK a neighbor managed to loosen his tongue on Saturday afternoon after they had consumed a few beers. The neighbor finally felt that he might get Darrell to say something about the finding of the bullet....But Tomlinson became a bit peeved and told the neighbor..... "Who cares,....The SOB had it coming!"......
