Oswald's Light-Colored Jacket

[Tim Nickerson]

A parking lot is still not a museum.

I'll take that as you agreeing that the jacket in the photos appears to be white. I'll mark you down.
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Anyone else?

[John Iacoletti]

I'll take that as you agreeing that the jacket in the photos appears to be white. I'll mark you down.

Yawn.  Show it to me in a parking lot on a sunny day.

[Howard Gee]

Already been done. Looks white in that photo too.

[Bill Brown]

Already been done. Looks white in that photo too.

Exactly.

[John Iacoletti]

Already been done. Looks white in that photo too.

What makes you think the jacket in that photo is CE 162?

[Martin Weidmann]

I'll take that as you admitting that the jacket in the photo looks to be white. I'll mark you down.

Why don't you try answering a simple question for once, rather than making assumptions in a vain attempt to support your weak claim?

[Martin Weidmann]

Already been done. Looks white in that photo too.

So you agree the jacket found at the parking lot was white, just as the officers who called it in said?

Great, now we are getting somewhere.....

Btw you do understand that the jacket in the museum display has been in storage for decades.

What do you think, do colors fade under those conditions?

[Zeon Mason]

The radio dispatch record indicates a report of the jacket being found described it as a white jacket.

279 (unknown):
We believe we've got this suspect on shooting this officer out here. Got his white jacket. Believe he dumped it on this parking lot behind this service station at 400 block East Jefferson across from Dudley Hughes and he had a white jacket on. We believe this is it.



http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/dpdtapes/tapes2.htm

If the jacket were gray, or grayish blue, why would a  report be sent to dispatcher that the jacket is "white"?  whomever has found the jacket (still not known who picked it up from under the car) would surely be able to see in his own hand with his own eyes if the jacket is gray, or white, should he not?


The report coming into the dispatcher is AFTER the jacket has been found, so is not some mistaken earlier description by one of the 1:16 civilian operators of Tippets radio. Neither Bowley, nor Buenivides, nor Calloway.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/dpdtapes/tapes2.htm


on a side note to above dispatch record: Interesting that at 1:11, Inspector J.H. Sawyer reports:

"On the 3rd floor of this book company down here, we found empty rifle hulls and it looked like the man had been here for some time. We are checking it out now". 


A couple of other reports given to dispatcher about 1:34 pm:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/dpdtapes/tapes3.htm

Might can give you some additional information. I got an eye-ball witness to the get-away man. That suspect in this shooting is a white male, twenty-seven, five feet eleven, a hundred sixty-five, black wavy hair, fair complected, wearing a light grey Eisenhower-type jacket, dark trousers and a white shirt, and (. . . ?). Last seen running on the north side of the street from Patton, on Jefferson, on East Jefferson. And he was apparently armed with a 32 dark-finish automatic pistol which he had in his right hand.


550/2 (Sgt G.L.Hill):

The shells at the scene indicate that the suspect is armed with an automatic 38, rather than a pistol.