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- From: bbx!bbxrbk!russ@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Russ Kepler)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Guns used in assassinations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.031635.11286@bbxrbk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 04:56:15 GMT
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- In article <ATAYLOR.93Jan25093603@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
- #<In article <1993Jan24.023112.17358@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
- #< * BTW a show last night on Fox said that the FBI declined to do
- #< any tests on James Earl Ray's rifle to determine if has even
- #< been fired since the last time it was cleaned (it was found
- #< moments after the murder), or to see if its rifling matches
- #< that on the fully intact bullet they recovered from MLK.
- #
- #< According to the show, to this day they refuse to allow any
- #< tests of this sort to be done on the rifle. "The case is
- #< closed", I guess.
- #
- # Huh. Seems a bit strange...
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- A reference I have here says that MLK was shot in the throat with a
- "single fragmenting bullet" which tore open his throat and severed his
- spine.
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- A later reference says "Because two bullet fragments taken from King's
- body were so distorted that ballistic tests were inconclusive" implies
- that that either not enough bullet jacket was found to serve as a
- match for a bullet fired from the found rifle or that there was so
- little found that no one bothered to fire a bullet to not match.
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- References from _It's a Conspiracy_ by the National Insecurity
- Council. Honest.
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- Russ Kepler, posting from home russ@bbx.basis.com, bbxrbk!russ@bbx.basis.com
- "It's better to be quotable than to be honest" - Tom Stoppard
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