3 spent cartridges on the floor of the Texas School Book Depository.
1 live round in the rifle - that makes 4
4 cartridges recovered at the scene of Tippit's shooting - that makes 8
5 rounds found in Oswald's pocket - that makes 13
a fully loaded revolver with 6 rounds - that makes 19
On 19 bullets or cartridges, Oswald's fingerprints were not found on a single one of them?
Was anyone's prints found on any of them?
Doesn't that seem odd?
Were the spent shells from the revolver ever tested for fingerprints? I just don't remember.
The reason I ask is that Benavides told the WC that he had seen the shooter take 2 shells out of the gun and throw them.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/benavide.htm?Mr. BELIN - Well, did you see the man empty his gun?
Mr. BENAVIDES - That is what he was doing. He took one out and threw it.?
?Mr. BENAVIDES - Yes. As he turned the corner he was putting another shell in his gun.
Mr. BELIN - You saw him?
Mr. BENAVIDES - I mean, he was acting like. I didn't see him actually put a shell in his gun, but he acted like he was trying to reload it.?
?Mr. BELIN - Now you saw him throw two shells?
Mr. BENAVIDES - Yes, sir.?
He also told the the WC that he (Benavides) had picked one up and then dropped it back down in the grass.
When he gave the shells to Poe, why didn't Poe ask him where he got them?
Mr. BELIN - When the officers came out there, did you tell them what you had seen?
Mr. BENAVIDES - No, sir.
Mr. BELIN - What did you do?
Mr. BENAVIDES - I left right after. I give the shells to the officer. I turned around and went back and we returned to work.
Poe never asked, "Where did you get these"? and "How did they get there?"
Later that evening, around 4:00 PM, two officers came to see him....
"I was just trying to hide from the reporters and everything, and these two officers came around and asked me if I'd seen him, and I told him yes, and told them what I had seen..."
After knowing that Benavides had seen the suspect take two empty shells and throw them, did they fingerprint the shells?
Wouldn't that have established for sure that Oswald was there? Did they fingerprint Benavides?
Apparently they didn't fingerprint him.
Mr. BELIN - Did he ever take you to the police station and ask you if you could identify him?
Mr. BENAVIDES - No; they didn't.
Which means that he wasn't taken down to the station to be fingerprinted either as a means of eliminating him as a suspect.
According to Day's WC testimony, both the empty shells and the live round were tested for fingerprints, and no prints at all were found.
http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/day1.htmMr. DAY. Were taken, I processed these three hulls (found at the TSBD) for fingerprints, using a powder. Mr. Sims picked them up by the ends and handed them to me. I processed each of the three; did not find fingerprints.
Mr. BELIN. Could you tell us what exactly you did in testing those hulls for fingerprints?
Mr. DAY. I used fingerprint powder, dusted them with the powder, a dark powder. No legible prints were found.
Mr. DAY. Captain Fritz took possession of it. I retained possession of the rifle.
Mr. BELIN. Did you process this live round at all for prints?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir; I did. I did not find any prints.
What about the shells Benavides says he saw Oswald throw?
Steve Thomas