Post by John Duncan on Apr 1, 2020 20:51:57 GMT -5
"The Smoking Guns" by Gil Jesus -- 8/2007
Smoking Gun # 1
The bullets removed from JD Tippit's body do not match the shells now in evidence. Four bullets were removed from the body of officer Jefferson Davis Tippit.* Three were Winchester-Westerns and one was a Remington-Peters. But of the four shells now in evidence, two are Winchester-Westerns and two are Remington-Peters. How can this be?
[*Editor's Note -- Tippit's initials did not stand for “Jefferson Davis" as they actually stood for nothing. J.D. was his name.]
It can't. If the evidence was real, the bullets would match the shells. The fact that they don't can be explained in two words: evidence tampering.
The shells currently in the possession of the government and declared to be the shells found at the Tippit murder scene are NOT the shells that were found.
The shells that were found were .38 automatic shells that were described as such by Sgt. Hill and marked by officer JM Poe. But because those shells could not have been fired from Oswald's handgun, they simply disappeared into history.
Once the Dallas Police had discarded the .38 auto shells, they had no way of knowing how many of each manufacturer had entered Tippit's.body. The bullets had already been sent to the FBI with the other evidence.
The Dallas Police held onto the shells that they had fired from Oswald's weapon during the ballistics testing. When the FBI asked for the shells, they sent them two of each. That's why the discrepency.
Smoking Gun # 2
CE 543 - The Dented Shell
This cartridge (Commission Exhibit 543) had a dent on its lip which.would have made it impossible for it to have contained a bullet prior to its being fired. Therefore, either one of two possibilities existed: either the shell received the dent prior to the shooting and was not connected to it (inplying that it was planted at the scene -- evidence of a conspiracy) or the shell was in fact evidence and was dented somehow AFTER its bullet had been spent. Faced with a mandate to dispel rumors of a conspiracy, the Commission at first assumed that this cartridge received its dent upon being ejected from the rifle and falling onto the floor.
However, solid brass cartridges don't dent when they hit the floor, as any hunter will tell you. The FBI reported to the Commission that the dent was made during the firing sequence, WHILE THE BOLT WAS PULLED BACKWARD, after the shot had been fired.
This seemed reasonable enough to the Commission to explain the existence of the dented lip, but on closer examination, the evidence does not support this conclusion.
And this may be the reason that the Dallas Police did not send this shell to the FBI until November 28th, five days after they sent the other two shells to the FBI.
CE 543 did contain three sets of markings inconsistent with the markings produced by Oswald's rifle, indicating that it had been loaded and ejected three times from a weapon other than Oswald's.
Secondly, at the primer, where the firing pin strikes the case, CE 543 contained a more concave indentation than the other two, indicating that it had been empty when "fired" from that other rifle. Only empty shells exhibit this type of characteristic. The FBI reproduced this effect (CE 557) when it loaded an empty shell into Oswald's rifle and pulled the trigger. It contained the same deep impression on the primer that CE 543 contained.
Thirdly, CE 543 contained markings caused by a magazine follower other than Oswald's. When the Carcano was tested by the FBI, it was found.that the magazine follower marked only the last cartridge in the clip. The last cartridge in the clip of Oswald's rifle when found on November 22nd was an unfired round.
The Dallas Police manufactured this evidence at a time when they did not have the Oswald rifle in their possession. That is, after they sent all of the evidence, including the rifle, to the FBI. On the night of the assassination, the Z-film had revealed that at least three shots had been fired. If the Dallas cops had only two shells, that means that at least one shot had to have been fired from another location and a second shooter.
This shell (CE543) was never fired from Oswald's rifle on November 22nd or at any other time.
Smoking Gun # 1
The bullets removed from JD Tippit's body do not match the shells now in evidence. Four bullets were removed from the body of officer Jefferson Davis Tippit.* Three were Winchester-Westerns and one was a Remington-Peters. But of the four shells now in evidence, two are Winchester-Westerns and two are Remington-Peters. How can this be?
[*Editor's Note -- Tippit's initials did not stand for “Jefferson Davis" as they actually stood for nothing. J.D. was his name.]
It can't. If the evidence was real, the bullets would match the shells. The fact that they don't can be explained in two words: evidence tampering.
The shells currently in the possession of the government and declared to be the shells found at the Tippit murder scene are NOT the shells that were found.
The shells that were found were .38 automatic shells that were described as such by Sgt. Hill and marked by officer JM Poe. But because those shells could not have been fired from Oswald's handgun, they simply disappeared into history.
Once the Dallas Police had discarded the .38 auto shells, they had no way of knowing how many of each manufacturer had entered Tippit's.body. The bullets had already been sent to the FBI with the other evidence.
The Dallas Police held onto the shells that they had fired from Oswald's weapon during the ballistics testing. When the FBI asked for the shells, they sent them two of each. That's why the discrepency.
Smoking Gun # 2
CE 543 - The Dented Shell
This cartridge (Commission Exhibit 543) had a dent on its lip which.would have made it impossible for it to have contained a bullet prior to its being fired. Therefore, either one of two possibilities existed: either the shell received the dent prior to the shooting and was not connected to it (inplying that it was planted at the scene -- evidence of a conspiracy) or the shell was in fact evidence and was dented somehow AFTER its bullet had been spent. Faced with a mandate to dispel rumors of a conspiracy, the Commission at first assumed that this cartridge received its dent upon being ejected from the rifle and falling onto the floor.
However, solid brass cartridges don't dent when they hit the floor, as any hunter will tell you. The FBI reported to the Commission that the dent was made during the firing sequence, WHILE THE BOLT WAS PULLED BACKWARD, after the shot had been fired.
This seemed reasonable enough to the Commission to explain the existence of the dented lip, but on closer examination, the evidence does not support this conclusion.
First of all, this cartridge did not have the characteristic marking on its side (an indentation) which the Carcano's bolt produced on EVERY cartridge fired from it (Hoover memo to Rankin, 2 June 1964; FBI Ballistics Report, 25 Dec.1964) , indicating that it had NEVER been inside the rifle's firing chamber, let alone been fired from it. Since it hadn't been in the firing chamber of Oswald's rifle*, this cartridge was never fired from Oswald's rifle, which means that it could NOT have had the markings of the firing pin of Oswald's rifle. I say this.because it is impossible for this shell to have the markings of the firing pin of Oswald's rifle without having been in the firing chamber. So where did the dent come from? Did Oswald make the dent with a hammer after he fired the last shot ? The only sensible conclusion, based on the absence of the bolt and firing pin markings, is that this shell had nothing to do with the assassination of John F. Kennedy and was to the evidence by those in control of the evidence.
[*Editor's Note -- The author uses the term "Oswald's rifle", buy there is no support for this claim as the WC failed to show that LHO ever ordered or owned the alleged murder weapon.]
CE 543 did contain three sets of markings inconsistent with the markings produced by Oswald's rifle, indicating that it had been loaded and ejected three times from a weapon other than Oswald's.
Secondly, at the primer, where the firing pin strikes the case, CE 543 contained a more concave indentation than the other two, indicating that it had been empty when "fired" from that other rifle. Only empty shells exhibit this type of characteristic. The FBI reproduced this effect (CE 557) when it loaded an empty shell into Oswald's rifle and pulled the trigger. It contained the same deep impression on the primer that CE 543 contained.
Thirdly, CE 543 contained markings caused by a magazine follower other than Oswald's. When the Carcano was tested by the FBI, it was found.that the magazine follower marked only the last cartridge in the clip. The last cartridge in the clip of Oswald's rifle when found on November 22nd was an unfired round.
What this all means is that CE 543 was an empty cartridge which was loaded into another rifle three times and "fired". The comparison.tests conducted by the FBI supported the conclusion that CE 543 was never in the firing chamber of Oswald's rifle and as a result of the lack of an indentation which the bolt was known to have caused on EVERY shell fired using it, this shell was not ejected through the bolt action.
When they FBI asked for the third shell, they had to produce one and they had to do it without the Oswald rifle.
So they loaded an empty shell into a rifle, "fired" it three times to make the impression on the primer, and sent it along to the FBI. During one of those "firing" sequences, the damage on the lip was made.