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I am also skeptical of Landis, but what do you mean about preserving evidence? It's a bullet. It just was next to an explosion that cleared it most most eviden

I am also skeptical of Landis, but what do you mean about preserving evidence? It's a bullet. It just was next to an explosion that cleared it most most evidence. Then the barrel rifling altered the metal. That would not be harmed by picking it up. Then it went through jfk. Okay, we already know his DNA is on it. The real question is why are you picking up random things from a crime scene and then putting them down in a hospital stretcher.

Someone 3y ago
Picking up the bullet destroys the evidence of the exact location it ended up in.
- Aeolun 3y ago
  So would the car accellerating after the bullet landed there. Picking it up and putting it on the stretcher seems plausible?
- grotorea 3y ago
  Would he be expected to know we would spend decades doing ballistic studies on that bullet trajectory in the heat of the moment?
Tao3300 3y ago
> The real question is why are you picking up random things Probably seemed like a good idea at the time. My wife was in car accident once where the airbag deployed. For some reason her immediate reaction was to roll down the window. People in stressful and perilous situations sometimes do things that make no sense.
- KennyBlanken 3y ago
  The gasses generated by an airbag are quite toxic and don't smell very good. Why wouldn't she open a window?
  - jcpham2 3y ago
    I’ve been in a wreck and burned by the hot explosive gases filling those harsh burlap sacks known as air bags; I am opening a window or door ASAP too. It’s funny how advertising depicts air bags as these soft pillows when they are anything but inviting during the moment of deployment.
ianburrell 3y ago
Are you from some other timeline where there was explosion at Kennedy assassination? The bullet they are talking about is the "magic bullet" that hit Kennedy and Connally. The bullet that hit Kennedy's head distinegrated and they found fragments.
- checkyoursudo 3y ago
  > Are you from some other timeline where there was explosion at Kennedy assassination? > The bullet they are talking about is the "magic bullet" that hit Kennedy and Connally. The bullet that hit Kennedy's head distinegrated and they found fragments. The explosion they are referring to is the one inside the firearm when the firing pin strikes the cartridge. No need to be unkind.
- drusepth 3y ago
  Bullets, in general, are next to an "explosion" when fired from any gun that propels bullets via explosion.
ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
> I am also skeptical of Landis, but what do you mean about preserving evidence? I don't really know, but it hardly seems like good practise to pick up a bullet. Don't crime scene investigators usually take calibrated pictures of important items such as bullets and often try to determine the trajectory? There's also the chain of custody to think about - the bullet could easily have been swapped with a different bullet after he left it on the stretcher.
- hilbert42 3y ago
  "I don't really know, but it hardly seems like good practise to pick up a bullet" Of course it's not but that was no ordinary crime scene. There were thousands of people about, what would happen to the vehicle etc., etc? There's no way the crime scene could be secured in such a short time. And JFK had to be rushed to hospital. Nothing was certain. He saw the bullet as evidence and on the spur of the moment secured it. After that he was likely in shock and thus his actions were more that of an automaton.

Someone 3y ago

Picking up the bullet destroys the evidence of the exact location it ended up in.

Aeolun 3y ago
So would the car accellerating after the bullet landed there. Picking it up and putting it on the stretcher seems plausible?
grotorea 3y ago
Would he be expected to know we would spend decades doing ballistic studies on that bullet trajectory in the heat of the moment?

Tao3300 3y ago

> The real question is why are you picking up random things Probably seemed like a good idea at the time. My wife was in car accident once where the airbag deployed. For some reason her immediate reaction was to roll down the window. People in stressful and perilous situations sometimes do things that make no sense.

KennyBlanken 3y ago
The gasses generated by an airbag are quite toxic and don't smell very good. Why wouldn't she open a window?
- jcpham2 3y ago
  I’ve been in a wreck and burned by the hot explosive gases filling those harsh burlap sacks known as air bags; I am opening a window or door ASAP too. It’s funny how advertising depicts air bags as these soft pillows when they are anything but inviting during the moment of deployment.

ianburrell 3y ago

Are you from some other timeline where there was explosion at Kennedy assassination? The bullet they are talking about is the "magic bullet" that hit Kennedy and Connally. The bullet that hit Kennedy's head distinegrated and they found fragments.

checkyoursudo 3y ago
> Are you from some other timeline where there was explosion at Kennedy assassination? > The bullet they are talking about is the "magic bullet" that hit Kennedy and Connally. The bullet that hit Kennedy's head distinegrated and they found fragments. The explosion they are referring to is the one inside the firearm when the firing pin strikes the cartridge. No need to be unkind.
drusepth 3y ago
Bullets, in general, are next to an "explosion" when fired from any gun that propels bullets via explosion.

ndsipa_pomu 3y ago

> I am also skeptical of Landis, but what do you mean about preserving evidence? I don't really know, but it hardly seems like good practise to pick up a bullet. Don't crime scene investigators usually take calibrated pictures of important items such as bullets and often try to determine the trajectory? There's also the chain of custody to think about - the bullet could easily have been swapped with a different bullet after he left it on the stretcher.

hilbert42 3y ago
"I don't really know, but it hardly seems like good practise to pick up a bullet" Of course it's not but that was no ordinary crime scene. There were thousands of people about, what would happen to the vehicle etc., etc? There's no way the crime scene could be secured in such a short time. And JFK had to be rushed to hospital. Nothing was certain. He saw the bullet as evidence and on the spur of the moment secured it. After that he was likely in shock and thus his actions were more that of an automaton.