JFK Assassination: Former Secret Service Agent Claims He Found The Magic Bullet In Limo, Placed It On Stretcher
September 10th, 2023Former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, found the Magic Bullet on the top of the back seat of the limo?
Undercharged round???
Mmm hmm.
Nealy 60 years after the JFK assassination, we now have Magic Bullet 2.0.
Can anyone explain to me how the possibly “undercharged” Magic Bullet 2.0 managed to hit the target at all if the person firing the rifle dialed in DOPE for a standard velocity round?
Not only did the “undercharged” Magic Bullet 2.0 have enough velocity to hit the target using DOPE for a standard round, but it then, “Dislodged from a shallow wound in the president’s back, falling back onto the limousine seat.”
If you’re not familiar with shooting high powered rifles, run this scenario past someone who is and note the response.
It will go something like, “No way.”
Personal experience: I’ve probably shot something like 15,000 centerfire rifle cartridges in my life, mostly 5.56, 7.62×51 and 7.62×39. Also, some larger stuff, .300 Winmag, .338, etc. How many of those do you think were “Undercharged”?
None. Zero. Zilch.
I had a few bad primers (under a handful) fail to fire in all of that time. I mostly fired old, cheap military surplus ammo and most of that was not made in the U.S. I don’t think I ever had a U.S. manufactured centerfire rifle round (Winchester, Federal, Remington, etc.) fail to fire.
How many “undercharged” centerfire rifle cartridges have you encountered in your decades of shooting?
Imagine the odds, on the big day almost 60 years ago… A defective cartridge? Tell me another one.
Someone, somewhere might try to sell you on squib loads to explain this. I’m just here to tell you, in over forty years of shooting, it hasn’t happened to me, or any of my friends. (Somewhere on this site you can read about my wife’s cousin trying to kill a pig with a wet .22. That doesn’t count, because first, that’s rimfire, which is less reliable than centerfire and, second, it was wet.)
Via: Daily Mail:
Landis, who in 1963 was a young Secret Service agent assigned to protect First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy, said that in the chaos following the shooting, he picked up a nearly pristine bullet sitting on the top of the back seat of the open limousine.
It was just behind where Kennedy was sitting when he was killed, he says. Landis says he took the projectile and placed it on the president’s hospital stretcher to preserve it for the autopsy investigators.
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Now, Landis says that he believes the bullet he retrieved from the limo may have been undercharged, and dislodged from a shallow wound in the president’s back, falling back onto the limousine seat when the fatal shot struck his head.
He theorizes that, after he placed the bullet on Kennedy’s stretcher, it may have fallen onto Connally’s stretcher when they were jostled together.
It’s also possible that the hospital staffer who found the bullet and handed it over to the Secret Service misidentified which stretcher it was from, or that his account was mangled by investigators.
The bullet, which had been fired but was nearly fully intact, was positively matched to Oswald’s Mannlicher-Carcano through ballistics analysis.
Saturday: ban guns. Sunday: proof that Oswald did it. Monday, Sept. 11, back to work, everybody.