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PROCESS OF ELIMINATION cont.
made of a whole bullet (or "nearly whole" as the Commission chooses to describe
399) having been surgically removed from either President Kennedy or Governor
Connally. And, of course, after such surgical removal, the bullet would still
have to have been placed on one of the stretchers.
Before turning our attention to the two remaining hypotheses, we
should note that of the "retained" hypotheses reconsidered thus far (after
the elimination of the first seven), whether their individual impediments
impress one as decisive or not, each of them requires that some unknown
person or persons retrieved bullet 399; either from the Presidential car, or
from the general vicinity of the assassination, or from an unknown location
at
an indeterminate distance from the site of the shooting; or from the
bodies of the victims themselves; and then placed it, or arranged to have it
placed, on one of the stretchers.
The point must be emphasized that not only would this be an inex-
cusable and inexplicable mishandling of vital evidence even if somehow com-
mitted with no sinister purpose, but that there is no reason whatsoever why
this should have been done with a legitimate assassination bullet even for a
sinister purpose. The "planting" of a bullet can only be with the intention
of having it "found" so as to ensure positive identification with a weapon
the "planter" wishes to implicate (whether such a weapon is actually in-
volved in the crime or not). Such a person would be delighted to discover
that an assassination bullet had been recovered in the near pristine
condition of 399, thus assuring the desired ballistic identification. What
possible motive could he then have for jeopardizing his good fortune and the
legitimacy of such crucial evidence (not to speak of his own risk of
criminal involvement) by "planting" it? The answer, of course, is that no acr
such motive exists.
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