AFTE Store - The Missing Bullet in the JFK Assassination

The ballistic evidence in the November 22, 1963, JFK assassination clearly supports the proposition that Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the 6th floor, southeast corner window of the Texas School Book Depository building with his Model 91/38 6.5mm Carcano rifle. Two of these three shots struck President Kennedy. The bullet from one of these two shots also struck Texas Governor Connally. Unaccounted for is the fate of the bullet from the missed shot, its order in the three shot sequence and its flight path. This article, the fourth in a series, presents a step-by-step review and analysis of the assassination, as well as the exterior and terminal ballistics of the 160-gr. 6.5mm WCC Carcano ammunition. This article concludes that the missing shot was the first shot fired, the bullet from this shot struck the asphalt of Elm Street at a relatively steep angle and subsequently self-destructed.