Depends. The bullet struck a glancing blow along the rib. Was it tumbling or slowed down. A bullet that stuck a rib nose-on at full-velocity is not what happened to Connally according to the WCR. It's instead what some critics claim happened.
If you mean the 2013 PBS Special "Cold Case JFK", the Haggs are merely career ballistics-experts, absentmindedly conducting meaningless tests using the exact same type of rifle and ammunition that the WC said Oswald used.
So a Carcano round fired into pavement will bury itself as if the asphalt were rubber? The Haggs found that the bullet disintegrated.
A M-C bullet hitting hard tissue (like the thick skull bone) nose-on would have a different outcome than the same type of M-C bullet passing through soft tissue and then hitting a thin bone (like the fifth rib) after supposedly being slowed down and tumbling.
Rather than going Rube Goldberg, maybe watch the 2013 PBS Special to learn from the Haggs.
I finally found a youtube location for the 1988 Nova Film! It is well hidden amongst all the threads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oHAbCu_LbMI couldn't imagine the damage a tumbling bullet must have done when the above documentary suggested the pulverized rib (20:20)was removed from Connally's body. If the bullet was tumbling as suggested, then there should not have been any problem extracting this low velocity projectile from Connally's thigh! Instead it disintegrated or become the pristine bullet found near a nearby stretcher (17:38) and passed to a forensic lab through 5 different people!
With respect to the bullet that hit the pavement, did they take pictures of the crater it made? How were we made to believe that it existed? By eyewitness testimony only? Or picture as well?
