Commission Exhibit 399 ("stretcher bullet")
A nearly intact 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano round recovered at Parkland Memorial Hospital on November 22, 1963.
Evidence ID: CE-399
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What this item anchors
A nearly intact 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano round recovered at Parkland Memorial Hospital on November 22, 1963. The bullet became the subject of the Commission's single-bullet analysis: ballistics matched the Carcano rifle (CE-139) found on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Its relative lack of deformation has been the single most-contested physical item in the case, examined again by the HSCA forensic panel in 1978.
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- 1November 22, 1963Darrell Tomlinson (Parkland)
Discovered on a stretcher in the hospital corridor and handed to hospital security chief O. P. Wright.
- 2November 22, 1963O. P. Wright (Parkland)
Handed the bullet to Secret Service Special Agent Richard E. Johnsen.
- 3November 22, 1963SA Richard Johnsen (USSS)
Delivered to SS Chief James Rowley in Washington.
- 4November 22, 1963FBI
Received from Secret Service; submitted to FBI Laboratory for ballistics comparison.