Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Bullets that were fired at the Presidential motorcade, including fragments of the fatal bullet, are maintained at the U.S. National Archives. Photographs of those evidentiary items have also been digitized and can be viewed on-line.

• Two metal bullet fragments were removed from the President's head during his autopsy.



• Three small lead particles were found on the rug underneath the left jump seat of the President's limousine.



• A metal fragment, filmed at high magnification, was removed from Governor Connally's wrist.



• Fragments of the nose of a bullet were found at the front of the President's car during the investigation.



• The famous "Magic Bullet," found on the stretcher at Parkland Memorial Hospital, filmed at high magnification with the nose of the bullet to the left.



• Butt of Parkland Hospital bullet filmed at high magnification.



• Nose of Parkland bullet filmed at high magnification.

The window of President Kennedy's limo was cracked by the shooting. It was removed from the car, marked as Warren Commission Exhibit 351, and stored in a wooden crate. The cracked glass is very visible in the Archive's digitized, marked photograph of the physical evidence.

Those were not the only bullets Oswald allegedly fired the afternoon of November 22, 1963.