Connally was wheeled to a second-floor operating room. An attendant put the empty stretcher in an elevator. Darrell Tomlinson, the hospital’s senior engineer, took it off on the ground floor and put it beside another stretcher. A few minutes later he bumped one of them against the wall and a bullet rolled out. [1]
Asked whether he was sure which stretcher it was, Tomlinson said: “I can’t be positive, just to be perfectly honest about it, I can’t be positive, because I really didn’t pay that much attention to it.” [2]
The Commission concluded the bullet came from Connally’s stretcher. Its reason was that Kennedy never left his own stretcher, which was taken to a different room. [1]
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