All reasonable possibilities have to be considered. There are only 3 possibilities:
1. Is it possible that CE399 was not the bullet found on the stretcher due to accidental mixup with a bullet from some other source?
2. Is it possible that CE399 was deliberately substituted for the bullet found at Parkland?
3. Is it possible that the evidence as to the provenance of CE399 is accurate.
We can easily eliminate 1 because CE399, having been matched to the type of ammunition used in C2766 rifle (you don't even need to know that it had been fired by C2766), it could not have been accidentally substituted.
The no. 2 possibility would require one or more of the 5 people involved (Tomlinson, Wright, Johnsen, Rowley, Todd) to be part of a conspiracy to plant evidence. A conspiracy would be required because there is no way that any of them could have had access to C2766 on their own after the assassination. Johnsen went to Washington and C2766 stayed in Dallas. So we look at the evidence.
First of all, we consider motive. Why would a conspirator involved in the most heinous act of the 20thC plant CE399? One answer is obvious: it would be to link C2766 and Oswald to the assassination and create a "patsy" on whom to pin the assassination.
But it is also obvious that if CE399 was a plant, it must have been fired by Oswald's rifle prior to the assassination. That only works if a slightly damaged bullet makes sense to how the shots, injuries and discovered fragments (in the future) would occur. So, planting CE399 before they had all that evidence, would be extremely risky for the conspirators and might just as easily provide evidence of a conspiracy if the bullet did not fit.
It would also not be known if there would be an opportunity to put CE399 into the evidence stream. That only arose because a bullet was actually discovered at Parkland.
So now we not only have a hospital staff or Secret Service officer being part of an elaborate conspiracy, but taking the risk of tampering with evidence with the result of demonstrating a conspiracy if the evidence did not fit or if a natural opportunity to insert a bullet into the evidence did not arise.
Then we look at the inherently random events that led to CE399 being initialed by Todd (unless we have a doubt that he was telling the truth that he initialed it on 22/11/63 in Washington). Someone has to find a bullet. Tomlinson only discovered it because it was blocking the washroom door and someone pushed it out of the way to access the washroom. Tomlinson then pushed it forward against the wall and he heard something fall. No guarantee that would happen. It could just as easily have stayed on the stretcher and found by the laundry staff (and given to someone not in on the conspiracy) or it could have gotten lost in the laundry system. If that occurred, Johnsen, Rowley and Todd would never have been involved. And if Tomlinson had given it to some other person than O.P. Wright or if Wright had given it to someone else who remained in Dallas, the chance that it would end up in the hands of a conspirator in the Secret Service would be gone.
Even if you get around the problems of inutility, risk and randomness with the no. 2 possibility and have a conspirator do something that makes no sense in order to possibly deflect scrutiny of the conspiracy or perhaps reveal it, there is a lack of evidence of such conspiracy or treasonous inclination of anyone and certainly not among these five people. There has not been one iota of evidence suggesting that any of these five people were doing anything but trying to do their job at a time of great confusion and stress.
And that leaves the only other possibility, no.3.
As usual, instead of dealing with actual evidence, and the arguments stemming from that evidence, I have presented in my previous posts, you have decided to counter with some sort of stream-of conscious, evidence-free, garbled speculation.
Fact - O P Wright, the civilian who hands over the bullet into the official chain of custody, categorically states that the bullet he handed over to SA Johnsen was
NOT CE399.
From this we can assume the bullet carried by Johnsen and given to Rowley in Washington was the pointy-tipped bullet Wright is unequivocally stating he gave to Johnsen.
Fact - experienced Secret Service agent Johnsen and
Head of Secret Service Rowley, both "forget" to initial CE399, a most basic prerequisite when handling evidence. And the importance of this particular piece of evidence cannot be understated.
It can be safely assumed that both men are aware that they must initial this evidence in order to maintain the chain of custody, so we are being expected to believe both men knowingly destroyed the chain of evidence. Key evidence in the murder of the President of the United States.
This incomprehensible failure is explained if, following on from the first fact, the bullet they have in their possession is NOT CE399, but the pointy-tipped bullet given to Johnsen by Wright.
Fact - When asked, Tomlinson, Wright, Johnsen and Rowley, all refuse to identify CE399 as the bullet they handled that day. Not one or two of them,
but all four. This seems incredible, particularly as Todd and Frazier seem to have no trouble whatsoever identifying CE399 as the bullet that eventually reached the FBI lab.
What could account for this incredible mass amnesia?
Go back to the first fact - the bullet that Tomlinson, Wright, Johnsen and Rowley handled was
NOT CE399. Very simple really.
Let's forget the stupid notion of CE399 just falling out of Connally's leg as if a bullet entering flesh was like a hole drilled in wood and if you turn it upside down the bullet just falls out. It's not worth getting dragged into the silliness of that argument.
Let's forget the fact that, even though the bullet is supposed to have traveled through two men, smashing various bones on the way, by the time it reaches Frazier there is not a speck of human tissue or blood on the bullet. Maybe some nice agent decided Frazier would like a lovely, clean bullet to work with.
And let's forget the fact that Tomlinson, the man who discovered the bullet, is not asked a single question about his discovery in his WC deposition. It's just too bizarre to contemplate.
And let's forget your unbelievably naive argument that the bullet couldn't have been planted because there was no conspiracy. If you argument were any more circular it would have infinite angles.
Let's just deal with the evidence and the arguments I have presented.
If you have counter-evidence from which you've gleaned a counter-argument, let's hear it.
And just to show you anyone can make up any old bollocks they like, here's my completely spurious argument for what would have happened if there was no conspiracy:
1) O P Wright, upon seeing a picture of CE399 would have immediately said, "That's the bullet, there can be no doubt about it".
2) Agents Johnsen and Rowley would have put their initials on CE399 as their most basic training would've required.
3) When asked to identify CE399, Tomlinson, Wright, Johnsen and Rowley would have all sung in barber-shop hamony style, "C-E-3-9-9 is the bullet in question, and we ain't lyin'." Or maybe cheerleader style, "Give us a "C", give us an "E"...etc"
