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XI
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NO FURTHER TESTS WERE RUN
"
As noted in our reconstruction of the "chain", FBI spectrographic
expert Gallagher did not testify until two weeks prior to the release of
the Warren Report. No questions whatever were asked of him regarding bullet
399, and one would not know from his testimony that he ever examined it.
That Gallagher did indeed do so is revealed by Frazier during his
testimony of May 13, 1964, with counsel Specter; although no dates for the
;lur
examination are given or asked. Specter did not inquire of Frazier as to
whether Gallagher may have detected any blood/tissue residue on 399 during
his examination; nor was he asked whether the "neutron activation analysis"
51746
-- whose usefulness in crime-detection is described in fascinating and
lengthy detail by Gallagher -- could have been employed to detect such
traces on 399, and to determine their origin.
Yet another opportunity to learn something about the nysterious
bullet's history was missed, by Mr. Eisenberg, in his questioning of Joseph
D. Nicol, the Illinois firearms expert, on April 1, 1964. After explaining
to Eisenberg his opinion that 399 and the two bullet fragments (C.E. 567
and 569) originated from the same weapon as did several test bullets
furnished him, he was asked:
Mr. Eisenberg: Mr. Nicol
is there any further testimony you wish to
give on the subject of the rifle bullets?
Mr. Nicol: The only other work I did was with respect to an examination
of the nose of (399) to ascertain whether there was any evidence
of ricochet or perhaps contact with fabric and so on.
However, although there were some fine striations on there, there
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