Oswald took 10.2 seconds to fire all three shots.

[Charles Collins]

Charles: A photo of the hat with specks of what appears to be blood (what else could it be?) is here. It's from the 6th Floor Museum and was taken in Jesse Curry's office. How it got there is a mystery.



And here:

Thanks Steve, that’s exactly what I remembered seeing.

[Andrew Mason]

Thanks that is interesting and helpful!

Do you have the respective weights of the jacket and the core handy?

I don't. And that was the original reason I acquired some actual bullets.  I was trying to determine if CE567 and CE569:

came from more than one bullet by trying to determine whether the mass of the copper exceeded the mass of copper in a single bullet.  I thought that the total mass of the copper in those two fragments (CE567=289 mg; CE569=1361 mg) might exceed the amount of copper in one bullet.  I don't think it does and I think both may well have come from the same bullet.

If I feel inclined I may get my blow torch out and heat up one of my bullets and see if I can determine the mass of the lead and copper separately.

[Charles Collins]

I don't. And that was the original reason I acquired some actual bullets.  I was trying to determine if CE567 and CE569:

came from more than one bullet by trying to determine whether the mass of the copper exceeded the mass of copper in a single bullet.  I thought that the total mass of the copper in those two fragments (CE567=289 mg; CE569=1361 mg) might exceed the amount of copper in one bullet.  I don't think it does and I think both may well have come from the same bullet.

If I feel inclined I may get my blow torch out and heat up one of my bullets and see if I can determine the mass of the lead and copper separately.

Thanks, yes, the copper in the upper left in 567 does look like it could be part of the nose. The 569 copper appears to me to be part of the base. So I think that they could all be parts of the same bullet. It's interesting how the copper shattered into small pieces like that. I think that it is a copper alloy and is harder than plain copper. Plus copper can be hardened in other ways (from my experiences with rigid copper pipe versus the coiled softer and more bendable tubing). Pleas let us know the results if you do decide to separate the lead from one of your bullets.