© Library of Congress / Wikimedia and AARCPresident Gerald Ford appearing at the House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, on pardoning former President Richard Nixon, Oct. 17, 1974. Letter to Ford from James M. Young, MD. (inset)
This is the story of a bullet - a spent, misshapen, but otherwise intact, bullet - that James Young, a Navy doctor, said was found late at night, on the floor, in the back of Kennedy's limousine. He inspected it himself.
The bullet was found by two chief petty officers who, during the autopsy, were sent to retrieve any skull fragments they could find in the limousine. They came back with three pieces of bone, and the bullet. The skull fragments were reported - but not the bullet.
Years later, when reviewing a memoir he wrote in 1963, Young thought about that bullet, and tried to find some mention of it in the Warren Commission Hearings. To his dismay, he found nothing. In 2000, he wrote to President Gerald Ford to ask him about it. After all, Ford had been on the Warren Commission. But Ford said he knew nothing about it either. In 2001, two Navy historians interviewed Young who gave them a highly detailed account of the events of November 22, 1963, some of which he witnessed personally. And he mentioned the bullet.
Recently, Dr. Randy Robertson, a board member of the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC) came upon Young's papers at a Navy website. This was an exciting discovery.
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I had little hopes to see the basic who what. etc. and was not let down. I could not find details there about who found the bullet, where, when it was first reported, etc. (Maybe someone else did.)
Most importantly, WHAT TYPE OF BULLET WAS IT? Was it from a 45 Cal. Colt M1911? Nevermind. You're not going to get that kind of basic info there. If it's there, what type was it, where and when was it found by who? Who reported it first?
Nevermind.
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"There's no question in my mind but the President was shot from behind. Something that other people don't really know and I never put it in this particular article is that people don't understand why President Kennedy, after the first shot, was not completely forward and fell on the floor of the car. But he had actually sat upright and both hands came up towards his neck apparently where the shot had come in from the back and exited his trachea. He put both hands up at that time. People didn't know that we had him in a back brace from underneath his axilla to his hips, and he couldn't move forward or to the side. But when he was shot in the right occiput, his entire left side, his entire motor cortex was destroyed. So he had no ability to control anything on his left side, and thus he slumped over and fell with his head down into his wife's lap, with this horrible gaping bleeding wound showing up at her. And that's why she jumped up out of the car and tried to crawl over the back of the trunk. And that's when Clint Hill saved her by pushing her back into the back seat of the car. Well, that's exactly what happened, but his head fell down right in her lap with this terrible gaping bleeding mass of brain and whatnot that was there. And, of course, the thing that I've said in here about Bill Greer, who was driving the Queen Mary was that [he] had brain tissue and blood spattered over his right posterior shoulder. Which, in my estimation could only have made that bullet come from behind, not from the grassy knoll, not from the side, not from the air or whatever. It had to come from behind and spray forward onto his right shoulder."
Is this any different than 9/11. First they did not want an investigation. Then the victims families forced one and they appointed war criminal Heinz Kissinger to head up the investigation. Then they spent less on the investigation than the dry cleaning bill on Monica's dress. The Dancing Israeli's admitted that they were Mossad agents sent to NY to film the event. They drove around in a Mossad front companiy (Urban Moving Systems) truck with a logo of an airliner diving into NY. The day after the attack the authorities were shipping the steel (evidence) off to China as fast as they could move it. They had every law enforcement agency in the country combing over the site for weeks where the most heavily guarded building in the country (Pentagon) was attacked and all the public got was 5 grainy photos.
Now you have a mass murder in LV. The sheriff says there had to be at least two shooters. This is confirmed by amateur forensic analysis of tapes. The official story is only one guy. Again expect lots of contradictory evidence to come out.
Wnat to fix America. Get rid of the FBI and CIA as a starting point. Next wake up Joe Sixpack. What is really happening now. RT is being investigated for spreading propaganda. It's the Russians once again.