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K! &#39;<92 Unlike Berg, who positively linked H7 and 52 to the same gun, Bradford could not link HT and 52 to the same gun due to the lack of sufficient individual characteristics. But again, inferentially, the fact that he matched H7 and SH to the same gun, and that he matched 52 and 5% to the same gun and saw nothing in the way cf individual or gross characteristics that would suggest a second gun, demonstrates that Bradford was one of five experts who con- cluded either directly or indirectly that the three evidence bullets, Kennedy, Goldstein, and weisel had all been fired from the same gun. Panel experts Charles Morton and Ralph Turner were unable to conclude that these three bullets had been fired from the same gun. However, it was Turner who stated in his working papers that to him, a positive identification meant that "he had cbserved a sufficient number, by his own standards, of rifling impressions and/or tracings, both gross and microscopic, in certain combinations which indicated to him Turner! that two or more bullets were fired through the same gun barrel." Additionally, Turner emphasized that the term "inconclusive" indicated that he was not able to arrive at a definite opinion, again by his standards as to whether or not two bullets or cartridge cases were fired from the same gun. Turner emphasized that inconclusive was not to be interpreted as inferring that a particular bullet cr cartridge case was or was nct fired in a particular gun. In all the bullets examined, Turner was only able to identify five bullets as coming from the same gun. These were the third and fourth 1975 test-fired bullets, both lead bullets, and the seventh and eighth 1975 test-fired bullets, both copper. It was generally conceded that due to the leaded condition of the barrel, these last two were the most easily recognizable and iden- tifiable bullets of all the eight fired bullets in 1975. Turner was also able to identify the second with the seventh 1975 test-fired bullet as from the same weapcn. However, Turner did state in his working papers that evidence bullets U7 and 52, the Kennedy and Goldstein bullets, had similar gross characteristics, and he concurred in the findings of the other panel members that there was no evidence that a second gun had fired any of the bullets. Charles Morton was also unable to Iink bullets NT, 52 and SH with the same weapon. However, Morton stated in his working papers that he had found similarity in these particular bullets, particularly where there was substantial impact from land and grccve impressions. This suggested tc Hcrtcn that the three bullets had been fired from a weapon which produced the same type of gross irregularities that had been found in some of the land impressions identified in the Nolfer test-fired bullets and in the 1975 test-fired bullets. Morton stated that his own failure to make a positive identification of the evidence bullets, H7, S2, and 5R with the same weapon, could be based on the fact of poor reproductability of striations left on the bullets fired from the Iver Johnson .22 caliber weapon, Serial H53725. Additionally, Hcrtcn felt that impact damage cn all the bullets, including the evidence bullets H7, 52, and SN meant the loss of some detail, and that perhaps this loss of detail was due to subsequent handling 4 -32-