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. PROCESS OF ELIMINATION cont. 67 Therefore, to retain any of these five as possibilities, one must accept that Frazier was wrong in believing that only fragments were found in the car; that he was vrong again in saying there was no evidence of penetra- tion in the car; and that 399 was recovered from the car's interior and placed on the stretcher at Parkland. In the case of JFK-lb, we must also accept that 399 avoided distortion although piercing the President's skull. An additional hurdle common to this group, but one which must be surmounted in order to retain any of its nine alternatives, is the fact that the Secret Service was in complete possession of the car from the time of its arrival at Parkland until it was flowm from Dallas three hours later at 3:35 p.m. It follows, then, that if anyone recovered 399 from the car at Parkland and placed it on a stretcher (or gave it to someone who did), it almost certainly could have been no one but a member of that agency. (At this point, it would be well to recall that it is most unlikely that either of the two stretchers handled by Tomlinson could have been used by President Kennedy 3 the Commission not only agreeing on this point, but is unequivocal in excluding the possibility entirely. We have also seen that there is at least a reasonable doubt that either stretcher was used by Governor Connally -- despite the Commission's conclusion that the one removed from the elevator by Tomlinson was indeed the Governor's. This leads us to the near certainty that no more than one of the twro stretchers on which Tomlinson could have "found" the bullet was con- nected with either victim; and that it is entirely possible that neither of them was so involved. These conclusions, unaided by any other considerations, but fully supported by the evidence, inevitably raise the possibility that 399 was planted. However, since it is our purpose to find, if possible, a legitimate

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