(November 5, 2013 at 10:29 am)Manowar Wrote: I caught a few minutes of JFK The smoking gun agin and they showed a pic of george Hickey in the limo with the rifle in his hand. I could not find it on the net but they showed it on the show and the bullets Oswald used full metal jacket rounds, but one bullet exploded in kennedy's head and opened up a huge hole, did Oswald change bullets? The rifle hickey supposedly used had those kind of bullets(hollowpoint) This is not a conspiracy theory, Oswald did it alone but the shot that exploded in the president was not the same round .
If you read the book "Mortal Error" they might have those pics there.
manowar
A few things -
* What evidence is there that Hickey's AR-15 used hollowpoints? I find it highly unlikely, as standard issue ball ammunition is FMJ, and as far as I am aware, there was no government issue hollowpoint 5.56. Furthermore, given that AR-15s are notably fussy about feeding ammunition it's not likely that they used anything but FMJ. Not that it necessarily matters (see my later points).
* Hollowpoint projectiles do not "explode" - they expand, typically to about twice their nominal diameter.
* FMJ bullets can and will do "strange" things when they impact bone, including fragmentation and ricochet. Coincidentally, the standard FMJ bullets used in *both* the 6.5x52 Carcano (used by Oswald) and the 5.56x45 NATO (used by Hickey) exhibit similar characteristics when they contact bone.
In short, the differences between wounds in soft tissue vs. a head wound can be explained by the nature of the wound location.
Who was their terminal ballistics expert, and what are his qualifications?
