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Mr. SPECTER - Dr. Finck, have you had an opportunity to examine Commission's Exhibit 399?
Colonel FINCK - For the first time this afternoon, sir.
Mr. SPECTER - And based upon your examination of that bullet, do you have an opinion as to whether in its current condition it could have passed through President Kennedy at point C-D in 385 and then inflicted the wound in the back and chest of Governor Connally?
Colonel FINCK - Yes; I do. This is a bullet showing marks indicating the bullet was fired. The second point is that there was practically no loss of this bullet. It kept its original caliber and dimensions. There was no evidence that any major portion of the jacket was lost, and I consider this as one bullet which possibly could have gone through the wounds you described.
Mr. SPECTER - And could that bullet possibly have gone through President Kennedy in 388?
Colonel FINCK - Through President Kennedy's head? 388?
Mr. SPECTER - And remained intact in the way you see it now?
Colonel FINCK - Definitely not.
Mr. SPECTER - And could it have been the bullet which inflicted the wound on Governor Connally's right wrist?
Colonel FINCK - No; for the reason that there are too many fragments described in that wrist. http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/finck.htmDemonstrating that Finck was wrong:
From the WC testimony of Dr Gregory:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/gregory1.htmARLEN SPECTER ? ?Will you describe, as specifically as you can, what those metallic fragments are by way of size and shape, sir??
DR. CHARLES GREGORY ? ?I would identify these fragments as varying from five-tenths of a millimeter in diameter to approximately two millimeters in diameter. And each fragment is no more than a half millimeter in thickness. They would represent, in lay terms, flakes?flakes of metal.?
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DR. CHARLES GREGORY ? ?A fragment of metal, again microscopic, measuring about five-tenths of a millimeter by two millimeters, lies just beneath the skin, about a half-inch on the medial aspect of the thigh.?
ARLEN SPECTER ? ?What is your best estimate of the weight of that metallic fragment??
DR. GREGORY ? ?This again would be in micrograms, postage stamp weight thereabouts. Not much more than that.?_________________________________-
Dr Gregory removed four fragments from the wrist. He left one tiny fragment in the wrist. It was about the size of the smallest fragment that he removed.
CE-399 weighed 158.6 grains. That?s almost 3 grains less than a WCC bullet weighed by Robert Frazier. One grain is equivalent to 64.8 milligrams. The density of lead is about 11.35 g/cc. In total there were 6 fragments; 4 removed, 2 left in Connally. If we were to say that all six fragments each had the dimensions of the largest dimensions given by Gregory ? that being 0.5mm x 2mm ? the total mass of the fragments still won?t add up to 3 grains.
After converting mm to cm:
.05 x 0.7854 x (0.2^2) = 0.0015708cc
0.0015708cc x 6 = 0.0094248
0.0094248cc x 11.35g/cc = 0.10697148 grams
0.10697148 grams is 107 milligrams
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Three grains is equivalent to 194.4 milligrams. As you can see, there?s plenty of room left over. And that?s using dimensions for the fragments that are exaggerated for effect. Three of the fragments removed are considerably smaller than the largest one.
Here are the fragments removed from Connally:
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Could CE-399 have inflicted the non fatal damage received by JFK and Connally? Yes. Yes it could.
From the HSCA testimony of Larry Sturdivan:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/jfkinfo/hscastur.htmMr. DEVINE - I would ask you to look at that particular exhibit[CE-399] that is in your hand at the moment and look at the configuration, any deformities that may appear thereon. Mr. Sturdivan, we had before this committee a number of experts in many fields. We had one photographic analyst. We have had forensic pathologists. We had experts in many fields and we asked their opinion about a number of things and you obviously are an expert in the field of ballistics. Based on what you know about the assassination of President Kennedy, the fact that a bullet entered the back of President Kennedy and emerged and conceivably then entered the body of Governor Connally and emerged and lodged itself some place going through the wrist, and perhaps the thigh, and perhaps that being the bullet that ended up on the stretcher in Parkland, in your opinion, as an expert, could the bullet that you hold in your hand now have passed through two bodies and touched some bone tissue and still emerged in that condition that some described as nearly pristine?
Mr. STURDIVAN - Yes, sir, it could have. The amount of soft tissue that it went through before it struck bone, the amount of bone that it struck, which wasn't extensive, at least before the wrist, the small amount of deformation indicating that it did not go through a great deal of bone at high velocity, which would have deformed it, caused it to have high drag, and so forth. This bullet is quite capable of having gone through that much tissue; yes. It is slightly deformed which, through my calculations, indicate it must have been deformed on bone since it could not have deformed in soft tissue.
Mr. DEVINE - That is your best judgment as an expert in the field of ballistics; is that correct?
Mr. STURDIVAN - Yes, sir, it could have inflicted that damage.
