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“The Magic Bullet” – Magnificent Display of one of only three bullets fired from a 6.5mm Mannlicher-Cracano Italian carbine rifle owned by 1963 Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry – similar bullets from a similar rifle were shot by Lee Harvey Oswald at President Kennedy.
6.5mm bullet encased in an acrylic mold, 3” diameter, mounted on a 7” x 9” plaque. Metallic plate affixed beneath: “replica of / CE 399 / the ‘magic’ bullet / fired from / Dallas Police Chief / Jesse Curry’s / 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano.”
A bullet, about 1.25” long, fired from a 6.5mm Mannlicher-Cracano Italian carbine rifle owned by Jesse E. Curry. Curry (1913-1980) was Dallas Chief of Police from 1960-1966. He was seated in the lead car in the presidential motorcade on November 22, 1963. A similar bullet from a similar rifle was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald at President Kennedy. Warren Commission Exhibit 399 is identified as “Bullet found on stretcher at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Tex.” It’s pictured on page 49 of Volume XVII of the Warren Commission Hearings. A photocopy of page 49 is included.
Accompanied by a notarized statement by Larry N. Howard, co-director, JFK Assassination Information Center, on an 8.5” x 11” sheet of the Center’s stationery. Dallas, Texas, April 18, 1991. In full, “I Larry Howard, set in place this 6.5mm bullet in an acrylic mold after firing it myself from Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry’s personal 6.5mm Italian Mannlicher-Carcano rifle. I originally made 5 examples but only 3 were successful. In turn I sold one of the successful examples to Stanley J. Szerszen.”
The Warren Commission established in “Chapter III (The Shots From the Texas School Book Depository)” of its report “that the bullets which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally were fired from the southeast corner window of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building and that the weapon which fired these bullets was a Mannlicher-Carcano 6.5 millimeter Italian rifle bearing the serial number C2766.” The Commission found that “one shot passed through the President’s neck and then most probably passed through the Governor’s body…” The Warren Report stated that “Governor Connally himself thought it likely that all his wounds were caused by a single bullet…” This “Single Bullet Theory” is called the “Magic Bullet Theory” by conspiracy theorists and other Warren Report critics. This comes with a LOA from University Archives.