Did you know that the spent cases recovered at the 6th floor were from a DOD contract to Western Cartridge Company in 1954 for 4 million rounds of 6.5x52 Carcano ammunition that they never made before or since? The cases were unique in that the actual lot codes were stamped on the heads, unlike most rifle cartridges (where lots are stamped on the box). Those cases were from Lot 6000, the first million made for that contract. While it was a DOD contract, one will immediately recognize that the US DOD has never issued or trained with 6.5 Carcano rifles. This was actually a CIA contract run through DOD to combat communist forces in an undisclosed nation.
Castro started the Revolution in Cuba in 1953, which seems like more than a coincidence. Seems like someone was trying to implicate the Cuban ex-pats, who were convinced to hate JFK for the Bay of Pigs, even though the CIA actually called off the covert air strikes, not Kennedy.
But if you watch hundreds of thousands of rounds impact targets as I have over the past 4 decades, when you see Zapruder, you recognize the frontal head shot splash and know he was hit with the final shot from the front. Parkland Doctors saw a 5ā exit wound in the back of his head with brain matter falling out of it (cerebellum).
3 of the Warren Commissioners did not accept the findings and knew it was BS, especially the CE399 bullet. The chief ballistician from Edgewood Arsenal stated that he was not able to present the findings of all their ballistics testing, and was pretty pissed about it. He said their tests did not support the conclusions in the Warren Commission, especially regarding CE399. They couldnāt get a bullet to go through a body and then Connallyās body and look anything like CE399, and they ran those terminal ballistics tests many times with well-designed test regimens.
That ammunition used low antimony content lead, so even though they were FMJs, they still were very soft and expanded rapidly like a soft nose bullet. The did a lot of cadaver shoots, skulls immersed in ballistic gel, and human wrists to try to duplicate Kennedyās and Connallyās injuries. It didnāt work for Connallyās chest and wrist. The 6.5 Carcano with Western Cartridge CIA contract ammo did blow the skulls apart though.
It is true that they were not only unable to zero the recovered Carcano, but 4 duplicate rifles and optics that they tried as well. When I read the rifle characteristics and ballistics conclusions as a kid, it felt like reading some kind of dystopian horror, only we live in it. Itās easy to mislead non-gun people on those details, but really stood out to me.