From: bhart@cyberramp.net (Michael Parks)
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First Reports, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4/4/77

All emphasis is my own..............Michael Parks

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ASSASSINATION DAY BULLET PIECES REPORTED
   DALLAS (AP) - A Texas patrolman says he recalls seeing more than three bullet fragments taken 
from the wounds of former Texas Gov. John Connally the day President John Kennedy was 
assassinated, according to the Dallas Morning News.
   In a copyright story yesterday, the News said Patrolman Charles W. Harbison, who guarded 
Connally’s room at Parkland Hospital, as saying he recalls turning over to an FBI agent more 
than three fragments.
   Connally was wounded in the same shooting spree that  killed President Kennedy here Nov. 22, 
1963.  The Warren Commission identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin and asserted that he 
alone was responsible.
   The News said Harbison’s story is doubly significant when coupled with the recollection of 
Miss Audrey Bell, operating supervisor at Parkland at the time of the assassination.
   Harbison was interviewed by the News Saturday.  However, yesterday morning he said he “can’t 
testify to the number of fragments,” and is not about to be “pinned down” as to the exact 
number.
   “I was standing there in the hall and someone, I don’t know who handed me the fragments,” 
Harbison said yesterday.  “I glanced at them, then turned and gave them to another man.  And a 
second man told me to go down the hall where they were taking the governor.”
   Harbison said he wasn’t sure who he gave the fragments to, but surmised it was a federal 
agent SINCE THEY WERE THE ONLY PERSONS OTHER THAN AUTHORIZED MEDICAL STAFF PERMITTED IN THAT 
PARTICULAR PART OF THE HOSPITAL.
   Miss Bell last week said she recalls that she was given FOUR OR FIVE OTHER BULLET FRAGMENTS 
taken from Connally.
   The News said the two separate groups of fragments now MAKE A TOTAL OF AT LEAST EIGHT 
FRAGMENTS PURPORTEDLY FOUND IN CONNALLY FROM WHAT THE WARREN COMMISSION DESCRIBED AS A “NEARLY 
WHOLE BULLET” THAT ALLEGEDLY FELL ONTO CONNALLY’S STRETCHER WITH ONLY A FRACTION OF ITS WEIGHT 
MISSING.
   Investigators for the House Assassinations Committee say they believe the bullet, which 
supposedly struck Kennedy in the BACK and then passed through Connally’s body, WOULD HAVE 
WEIGHED TOO MUCH IF MORE THAN THREE FRAGMENTS WERE REMOVED, the News said.
   The newspaper said investigators have already interviewed Miss Bell and concluded her 
testimony, if proven true, COULD DISCREDIT “THE VERY CORNERSTONE OF THE ENTIRE WARREN COMMISSION 
REPORT.”
   Miss Bell, however, in a television interview, said she did not weigh the bullet fragments 
and had no way of proving other than her recollection that there were more than three fragments 
given her in the operating room.  She said she later turned them over to two men she believed to 
be FBI or Secret Service agents.
   NEITHER MISS BELL NOR HARBISON WERE INTERVIEWED BY THE WARREN COMMISSION.

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Had Bell and Harbison told stories that backed the WC Report, I guarantee their testimonies 
would have been heard.  Through selective evidence, I could prove Hoover was not a crook, LBJ 
was honest and Helms was honorable.  Heck, I probably could even prove that Oswald killed 
Kennedy and Tippit.  Well, maybe not.  No one could believe that much crap.

Michael Parks