If you didn’t follow the proper procedures for discovering evidence and creating a chain of custody, would you mention the evidence in your report?
First question: “Where’s the bullet?”
How would his superiors have responded if he said he left it on a stretcher or operating table?
What we do know is that a different SS agent at Parkland put a bullet found near a stretcher in his pocket and brought it to DC. Which also doesn’t seem like a good way to handle evidence.
The question has always been, did the bullet come from Governor Connolly’s stretcher or Kennedy’s?
Even if we exclude Landis’ story, there’s other witnesses who saw a bullet on Kennedy’s stretcher at Parkland.
A bullet fell from Connally's stretcher as he was being moved onto the operating table and was picked up by a nurse who showed it to Henry Wade who told her to give it to a police officer. She gave it to Bob Nolan who put it on Fritz's desk. By the time it reached the FBI lab it had miraculously changed into four small fragments taken from Connally's wrist.
Tomlinson found a "hunting slug" with a pointed tip which he gave to O. P. Wright who gave it to SA Johnsen. He gave it to his chief, Rowley, and by the time it reached the FBI lab it had miraculously changed into CE399.
Any bullet found on JFK's stretcher just disappeared.
And so it goes.
