OK, let's start with where it ended up (Frazier and the FBI) and work
backwards.
Frazier testified about how he got the bullet from Elmer Todd (3H428).
Both Todd and Frazier had marked their initials on the bullet (CE 2011).
So, this places the bullet now in evidence as CE399 in the hands of the FBI.
Todd had gotten the bullet from James Rowley, of the Secret Service.
What bullet? You say "the bullet" but what does that mean? Can you show that "the bullet" is the one now in evidence as CE399?
Rowley had gotten it from an agent, Richard Johnsen. Johnsen filed a report about getting the bullet (18H798-799), and forwarded a note along with the bullet (18H800). The note said, in part, " . . . the attached expended bullet was received by me about 5 minutes prior to Mrs. Kennedy's departure from the hospital."
The note further named the "person from whom I received this bullet" as O.P. Wright.
Yes, we know all that, but was the bullet Johnsen received from Wright, and passed on to Rowley, the same one as the one now in evidence as CE399?
I can't find any WC testimony from O.P. Wright, although CE 2011 records that he passed the bullet along. And then, we have Tomlinson's WC testimony that he gave the bullet to Wright, and Johnsen's written statements that he got the bullet from Wright.
What bullet?
Neither Tomlinson, Wright or Johnsen can confirm that the bullet they handled on 11/22/63 was the same as the one now in evidence as CE399!
Further, Thompson interviewed Wright in 1966. He managed to get Wright to say that CE 399 didn't look like the bullet that he had handled, but he never for an instant denied getting the bullet from Tomlinson and giving it to Johnsen. SSID, p. 175.
What do you mean with "He managed to get Wright to say"? ?. Did he somehow force Wright to make a false statement? Is that what you are claiming?
The facts are fairly simple; Wright can't confirm that the bullet he got from Tomlinson and passed on to Johnsen was indeed the bullet now in evidence as CE399. In fact, he not only failed to identify CE399 when allegedly shown to him by Odum but he clearly states that the bullet he saw did not look like CE399.
Btw the WC took testimony from Tomlinson but they never asked him to identify the bullet CE399 (which wasn`t entered into evidence until after Tomlinson`s testimony). Considering that lawyers never ask questions they already know the answer to, why do you think they failed to show CE399 to Tomlinson for identification?
Translation: CE 399 would have been perfectly admissible. At most, the Oswald prosecution would have had to call some of these guys to the stand.[/b]
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/cece399.txt
JohnM
Complete rubbish. I don't care about your opinion about the admissibility of evidence at a trial that will never happen. I wanted you to show that the bullet now in evidence as CE399 was ever at Parkland Hospital and you have failed miserably to do so.