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Originally Posted by Tog_
If there was no exit wound then was the bullet recovered? It must have still been in the body. I thought the 'magic bullet' was one that passed through Kennedy and into the other guy's wrist.
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Originally Posted by Tolls
In which case, where's the bullet?
And, in addition, what sort of bullet would have caused such a small wound without apparently hitting anything else?
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For the most part, there seems to only be speculation on these points. The actual evidence of a shallow wound with no exit point was dismissed at Bethesda, and replaced with the spurious, unfounded claims of a single bullet which entered and exited the body. So what follows are simply a few of the theories I know have been debated over...
Some contend the bullet simply "fell back out" of the body. Even though the wound was only a few inches deep, this seems unlikely imo. Another argument has suggested the bullet was removed after the body had been "sequestered" (forcefully and illegally removed) from Parkland Hospital, before the autopsy was later performed at Bethesda. This cannot be proven, obviously, but I find it to be the most logical hypothesis - it would provide enough time to alter or tamper with the body in a private, restricted area.
As to the type of bullet, again there has been much debate. Certainly a bullet fired from a pistol would be a low velocity bullet, and would cause a small and shallow wound. But it seems unlikely that any sniper would ever use a pistol to shoot at a target from the distance required. A case has been made for the use of a saboted bullet. A sabot is a plastic carrier that grips a bullet within it. A small caliber bullet is placed within a sabot to enable it to be fired from a larger caliber weapon. I'm not sure of the veracity of the following story, but in 1975, a maintenance man reportedly found a 30.06 shell on the roof of the County Records Building in Dealy Plaza. The casing had an unusual crimp in its neck, which has led some to believe it may have been fired from a sabot. His son is said to still have the shell in his possession. I haven't looked into this theory enough to form an opinion either way.
Another theory suggests a low velocity dissolving projectile that would leave no bullet in the body, leaving only a small diameter, shallow wound. I personally have found the argument for this theory to be weak.
At any rate, the important issue is that the back wound had no exit point. That alone debunks the Warren Report's SBT, which means Oswald was not the only shooter, and raises serious doubts that he was even a shooter at all.