It's easy to make up blather and attempt to sashay around evidence,
but we'll keep at it until DVP must go away or be proved a fool. In
1964 testifying before the WC, Tomlinson made a drawing. At this time
it's the first official testimony he has made and it's closest to the
actual event. See:
http://jfkhistory.com/bell/bellarticle/BellArticle.html
In the drawing there is a hallway in Parkland hospital with 2
stretchers in it labelled A and B. Now let's hear Tomlinson's
testimony:
"Mr. SPECTER. Now, would you mark in ink with my pen the stretcher
which you pushed off of the elevator?
Mr. TOMLINSON. I think that it was this one right here (indicating).
Mr. SPECTER. Will you draw the outline of it in ink and mark an "A"
right in the center of that?
(Witness complied with request of Counsel Specter.)"
...
"Mr. SPECTER. Will you mark with a "B" the stretcher which was present
at the time you pushed stretcher "A" off of the elevator?
Mr. TOMLINSON. (Witness complied with the request of Counsel Specter.)
I believe that's it."
Ok. Now we can put the testimony together with the drawing and we
see clearly the position of both stretcher 'A' and 'B'. They are both
marked on the drawing. Tomlinson has stated that 'A' came off the
elevator and 'B' was already there in the hall. Now Tomlinson goes
on:
"Mr. SPECTER. That's fine. What happened when that gentleman came to
use the men's room?
Mr. TOMLINSON. Well, he pushed the stretcher out from the wall to get
in, and then when he came out he just walked off and didn't push the
stretcher back up against the wall, so I pushed it out of the way
where we would have clear area in front of the elevator.
Mr. SPECTER. And where did you push it to?
Mr. TOMLINSON. I pushed it back up against the wall.
Mr. SPECTER. What, if anything, happened then?
Mr. TOMLINSON, I bumped the wall and a spent cartridge or bullet
rolled out that apparently had been lodged under the edge of the mat.
Mr. SPECTER. And that was from which stretcher?
Mr. TOMLINSON. I believe that it was "B"."
The bathroom was labelled 'C' and the stretcher in front of the
door to it was 'B'. So the bullet came off stretcher 'B'. Tomlinson
is clear about where the bullet came from, stretcher 'B'. Which was
already in the hall before he came with the elevator and brought
stretcher 'A' from upstairs in the surgery suites.
Later in the discussion, the questioner gets Tomlinson to say he
wasn't sure about which stretcher was which. But years later when
doing a NOVA special, he was again clear that the stretcher he took
off the elevator was stretcher 'A' and the one that was already there
was 'B'. He had sample stretchers and moved them as he had years
before to show the viewer what he meant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx1sxYc8r2A
On two occasions Tomlinson has specified that stretcher 'A' was the
one the bullet fell from, including the first, and the last. Now DVP
seems all tied up with this, but it matters very little when you
realize that the bullet that was called CE399 and said to have come
from a Parkland stretcher was actually replaced by the one that we now
know as CE399!
When Tomlinson found the bullet, he passed it to a fellow named
Wright who worked at Parkland. Wright passed the bullet on to an SS
agent. It then found its way to the FBI. Unfortunately, when later
the CE399 bullet was brought back to be identified, neither the 2 SS
agents that handled the bullet nor Tomlinson and Wright would identify
it. Wright even said it wasn't the right bullet because it didn't
have the 'pointed' nose of the original bullet. No one is going to
forget handling a bullet that may have killed a president. If they
were showed a round nosed bullet when the original was 'pointed', it's
a legitimate statement and means that the bullet that now was labelled
CE399 was no longer the original 'pointed' bullet. The Secret Service
men supposedly put their names or initials on an envelope that the
bullet was put into. Whty would they say they couldn't identify the
bullet? Ws it the 'pointed' vs. the round nose?
All this says that the CE399 bullet is a sham and was replaced long
ago with a bullet from the M-C rifle. For an interesting experiment,
go to the following page:
http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Photos_-_HSCA_Public_Hearings_Exhibits_-_p6
Look down to item F-294 and click on it to see the 5 pictures of
bullets. If you look at the first 2 images (CE399 & CE572) you will
see that they are both almost undamaged, but they both are a bit
flattened and have slight bends in them, and they also are missing a
bit of material at the tail end. The second bullet is labelled as a
test bullet, and the first one that looks so alike to the second is
our CE399. Easy to see it was a test bullet too and was used to
replace the original bullet that came off the Parkland stretcher.
Poor old DVP is happy making stilted dtatements, but ignored real
evidence about the bullets, ans ids only too happy to use ad hominem
attacks to hope it will stop his detractors, and to keep his website
in use and not become a tird old biased site in favor or the old
WCR.