Bullet Found on Stretcher at Parkland Memorial Hospital

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Description

This is the bullet believed by the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (Warren Commission) to have caused wounds to both President John F. Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connelly. It came to be termed the “magic bullet” by those who questioned the Commission’s “single bullet theory.”

Citation

This primary source comes from the Records of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.

National Archives Identifier: 305144

Full Citation: Bullet Found on Stretcher at Parkland Memorial Hospital; 11/22/1963; FBI Exhibit Number C 001; Numbered Exhibits, 11/30/1963 – 9/24/1964; Records of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Record Group 272; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/bullet-parkland-memorial-hospital/, December 2, 2025]

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