FBI Lab to Test Bullet Fragment From JFK Death
An FBI crime lab will try to identify threadlike material found on a fragment of the bullet that killed President Kennedy, National Archives officials said Thursday.
The material’s relevance to investigations of the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination is unknown, archives officials said. But they said it would clear up a discrepancy remaining from a previous inquiry.
In an initial, typed report in 1979, the Firearms Examination Panel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations recommended testing the material found on the nose of the bullet. However, the recommendation was omitted from the panel’s final report.
An Assassination Review Board, established in 1992 to increase public access to the records of Kennedy’s assassination, said it was unable to determine the cause of the omission.
The bullet is one that hit Kennedy in the head, causing the fatal injury. It was retrieved from the president’s limousine by Secret Service agents shortly after the shooting.
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