Mark Ulrik

Seems we're back to reading minds. Nothing in the memo suggests awareness of police reports or lab results concerning the bullet.

Sullivan was aware of those things at 3:10 AM on 12/4/63? You're not being realistic.

I was the one who originally posted the newspaper clipping that you keep misinterpreting.

Now, why would you send me on a wild-goose chase like that? I'll give you 1000-1 odds that such a memo doesn't exist and never did.

You're reading an awful lot into "alleged" without even knowing if Sullivan used that word. We only have SA Loeffler's summary of the call: Now, I might personally have structured the sentence a little differently ("... the bullet alleged to ..."), but it sounds like pretty neutral, guarded language to me. The remainder of the memo reflects that they were scrambling for detailed information on the Walker shooting since there was nothing in their Dallas files. It's pure speculation on your part that they had any doubts about the legitimacy of the bullet.

Lawrence, were you commenting on Tom Gram's post, mine, or both? In any case, it's gratifying to know that you think of him/me/us as somewhat open-minded.

Sorry, Tom. I was curious enough to do a little searching last night, but didn't really find anything. Perhaps I should think about renewing my MFF subscription.

I found it without redactions in Ernie Lazar's FOIA Collection: 12/4/63 FBI memo from SA LOEFFLER to DALLAS SAC It seems to a relatively unbiased observer like me that Sullivan just wanted the FBI to be on top of the developing Walker situation. How can you guys read into the memo that Sullivan had "urgent concerns about the authenticity of the Walker Bullet" and thought "the true Walker Bullet might actually be steel jacketed?" I can agree with some of the points you're making, but this attempt (in your K&K article) to read Sullivan's mind is stretching it a bit.

Btw, this 1957 news item doesn't prove anything about anything, but it reminded me of the Walker case.

I'm probably the one who should apologize—for having such low expectations of 60's country boys. But it doesn't have to be purely a matter of terminology. Not having high quality color photos of the bullet to rely on, perhaps the officers tasked with the paperwork were in doubt about the metallic composition of its jacket, and it only took one to suggest it may have been "steel-jacketed" for that term to stick. The bullet had, after all, pierced a thick wall. I think the article overstates the significance of all four officers signing reports containing the term.

Yeah, he received a slightly longer one. What a bummer.

You very well know that "steel-jacketed" was the misnomer that I referred to. Bedtime now.

It could use some gentle editing, that's for sure. It's hard to disagree with Tom that more could and should have been done to resolve inconsistencies, not least the use of a certain misnomer, but there's also a lot to disagree with and some glaring mistakes.

It had to come to rest somewhere, and apparently the paper provided sufficient resistance (not unlike Connally's thigh). What do you think happened with the bullet that went through the wall? Just how many bullet switches do you guys imagine took place?

Well, someone got the rifle into the TSBD without raising eyebrows. Besides, in the Walker case, Oswald was careful not to travel with it on the same day he used it, but a few days before and after.

Duncan MacRae's forum crashed in late 2017, and all its content was wiped, so older links are not working anymore 🙄

No judgment intended. A lot of cinema goers also thought Stone's movie was accurate.

It's probably more like a counter-myth.

Three of my favorite actors in the same movie 😮

Have to confess that I know next to nothing about Blunt and his relationship with the ARRB and/or NARA. Is there a bio floating around somewhere? Just interested in the Reader's Digest version. How many other researchers had the level of access that he seems to have had? I assume he had proximity and time on his side, but perhaps academic credentials also helped?

What gave you that idea? I'm not a fan of "cancelling" anybody, even someone as goofy as TC.

TC may have felt genuinely ashamed of his sadistic impulses and realized that it's probably wrong to murder people whose politics you don't approve of, but the "white men" remark is still pretty offensive.

Geez Louise. When is your novel coming out?

Why would anyone have any clue about its significance on 11/29? After the "Walker note" appeared and Marina talked is another story.