Jfk Bullet Analysis Was Wrong

[Dubh Aingeal]

Researchers analyzing bullet fragments from the 1963 Kennedy assassination using new techniques say that the government's 1976 conclusion that the bullets came from only one gun (Oswald's) is wrong. 'Using new guidelines set forth by the National Academy of Sciences for proper bullet analysis, Tobin and his colleagues at Texas A&M re-analyzed the bullet evidence used by the 1976 House Select Committee on Assassinations, which concluded that only one shooter, Oswald, fired the shots that killed Kennedy in Dallas. The committee's finding was based in part on the research of now-deceased University of California at Irvine chemist Vincent P. Guinn. He used bullet lead analysis to conclude that the five bullet fragments recovered from the Kennedy assassination scene came from just two bullets, which were traced to the same batch of bullets Oswald owned.'

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Hell havnt they been saying this since like... 5 minutes after the details of the case were released?

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

I wich E. Howard Hunt's second wife would have allowed his son to press him for more info before he died this year.

[Marblez]

I read the article. The only thing that is being refuted is the form of testing that was performed to determine that they were from the same gun. Let's not put the cart before the horse. The actual fragments were not reanalyzed. Just because the testing method is unreliable does not mean the result is incorrect. Further testing is warranted.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Having sat through a whole semester of JFK assassination theory and discussion due to one particular professor of mine being obsessed with the case i have a special interest in this subject.

In essence this news story really does say "they got it wrong" or at least "if they got it right... its only due to luck, not science."

The mysteries and inconsistencies of the original case are interesting. This particular aspect of it, not so much as there is WAAAAAAY more damning info against the governments case than this hair-splitting example. But like i say often, anything that gets people to look into something of significance (rather than some American Idol bullshit) is good.

Actually what this report says is that the original conclusion is , if not "invalid" its pretty much worthless. The original idea is that the fragments they found, had to have come from only 2 bullets due to the nature of the fragments. Thus, the "two shots fired by oslwald" (vs multiple shots from multiple shooters) makes sense based on the fragment evidence.

The the original premise was that bullets of this type are so unique that to find fragments that seem to be from the same bullet means they came from the same bullet.

This new study basically says that's not true, and that plenty of these same bullets are so similar, that the fragments could have come from any number of shots by that rational. (modern day testing would settle this shit right quick though)