I’ve been reading the Warren Commission Report. It’s not so simple.

Since I posted that last uninformed screed, I looked up the bullets recovered at the scene, and travelled to the Warren Commission Report. This tome lists a nearly intact bullet (weighing 158+ grains vs a factory bullet weighing 160-161 grains); two large fragments:

One fragment, found on the seat beside the driver, weighed 44.6 grains and consisted of the nose portion of a bullet. … The other fragment, found along the right side of the front seat, weighed 21.0 grains and consisted of the base portion of a bullet.

Three small fragments less than a grain apiece were found under the seat occupied by Mrs. Connally.

In addition, the front windshield was struck from the inside, but not penetrated, by a bullet fragment which may or may not have been recovered.

Finally, a bullet fragment struck the south curb of Main Street and grazed the cheek of a bystander. The curb site was spectrographically examined later and found to contain lead with a small amount of antimony but no copper– the core of a bullet but no jacket. This is not likely to have been from the shot that entirely missed, since that would have been intact.

So the bullets were not at all accounted for.

The nearly intact bullet, said by the Warren Report to have been found when it fell out of Mr. Connally’s stretcher, could not have been the one that struck him as the nose wasn’t dented by impact with his ribs and it lost only a few grains from its factory weight. I suggest that it was planted. The mere possibility opens up a hornet’s nest of issues as the planter had have been someone close like a Secret Service agent.

Multiple lines of evidence point to Lee Harvey Oswald as the sole shooter in the assassination. His motivations as outlined in the Warren Report are also clear. To oversimplify, he wanted to make his mark on history. The only thing that is unclear is whether he had any help or direction.

Another avenue is the Warren Commission’s exploration of Lee Harvey Oswald’s history. Most critical is its mention of his employment at the Texas Book Depository. There is no indication of any help that he had getting the job, although Oswald was using Texas state employment agency help and may have gotten it through them. Nonetheless, it is a bizarre and probably inexplicable coincidence that he took a job at a location that offered him a prime shooting view for a motorcade which hadn’t planned on coming that way when he got the job.

You were warned– it’s another rabbit hole.