Dear Mr Hunt...

[Tim Nickerson]

Aren't we talking about examinations conducted way before 1997?

Yes we are.  SWGDOC was formed to address the lack of a universal standard. That's not saying that there were no standards prior to 1997.

[Jerry Freeman]

Iacoletti thinks that back in 1964 any high school graduate could have called himself a handwriting analyst and testified as an expert witness in a legal proceeding.

You had to be a high school graduate?
 

[Walt Cakebread]

Tim,

Iacoletti thinks that back in 1964 any high school graduate could have called himself a handwriting analyst and testified as an expert witness in a legal proceeding.

-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy 

Handwriting analysis is more of an art than a science....    It may be very difficult to detect a forged signature because a forger can concentrate on just the signature but not many forgers can write a message and fool someone  into accepting that the note as genuine.....as written by the person who signed that note.

In the case of the "Dear Mr Hunt" note.... There's no doubt in my mind that Lee Oswald wrote the note.....

[Jerry Freeman]

If you have, was it full-sized and sufficiently well-reproduced so that one can see in it the details McNally testified about and wrote about?
I've never seen a full size well reproduced copy of the note..... 
 

 There is really not all that much to it. Where did the [really scribbled] note come from again?

 
 

[Walt Cakebread]

 There is really not all that much to it. Where did the [really scribbled] note come from again?

HL Hunt's right hand man John  Curington, said that HL Hunt received the "Dear Mr Hunt"  note through the interoffice mail at Hunt Oil Company headquarters in Dallas shortly after the assassination .   I believe that the note was in an envelope addresses to HL Hunt and it had no postage stamp or postmark on it....

[Jerry Freeman]

He was in a very ebullient and in happy mood at the House of Paine that weekend ....WHY??  Could it be that HL Hunt had offered him a position at Hunt Oil....  Was the reason for the note simply a request for a little more information about that position? Perhaps many of you will recall that Fidel Castro grabbed many American owned businesses when he took over in Cuba....  H.L. hunt owned some of those manufacturing and refineries. Hunt Knew that Fidel Castro was dealing with the Russians, ( trading cheap Russian oil for Cuban sugar. )   Since Lee was fluent in Russian and was married to a Russian woman He would have been valuable to H.L Hunt as an interpreter for conversations between Cuba and Russia......  Is it possible that this is the position that Hunt had offered Lee Oswald?  HL Hunt must have been furious to know that Castro was using his refineries to profit ....in competition with his western enterprises.....

Frequently, serious minded entrepreneurs could consult with HL [who was filthy rich even without Cuba]
Anyway, if they could convince Hunt that the enterprise they had in mind was promising..Mr Hunt would finance them full throttle with projected success. There would be a contract and for the first year or so he would reap a large share of the profits and beyond at least until he recovered his investment and a good deal of interest. One such venture was his own son..Lamar who created a professional football team - the Dallas Texans [later to become the Kansas City Chiefs] As wealthy as H L Hunt was......he drove an old '50s Chevy 5 window pickup to work and packed his own sack lunch.
 
   

[Jerry Freeman]

  I believe that the note was in an envelope addresses to HL Hunt and it had no postage stamp or postmark on it....

Well I guess I was really wondering is ..what happened to the original [as the FBI couldn't 'determine' anything without it?]--
https://archive.org/stream/nsia-HuntMrLetterSupposedlySentbyOswald/nsia-HuntMrLetterSupposedlySentbyOswald/Hunt%20Mr%20Letter%2007_djvu.txt
Another review of that book...
https://capa-us.org/h-l-hunt-motive-opportunity-book-review/

[Walt Cakebread]

Frequently, serious minded entrepreneurs could consult with HL [who was filthy rich even without Cuba]
Anyway, if they could convince Hunt that the enterprise they had in mind was promising..Mr Hunt would finance them full throttle with projected success. There would be a contract and for the first year or so he would reap a large share of the profits and beyond at least until he recovered his investment and a good deal of interest. One such venture was his own son..Lamar who created a professional football team - the Dallas Texans [later to become the Kansas City Chiefs] As wealthy as H L Hunt was......he drove an old '50s Chevy 5 window pickup to work and packed his own sack lunch.
 
   

 As wealthy as H L Hunt was......he drove an old '50s Chevy 5 window pickup to work and packed his own sack lunch.

John Curington confirms this ......But Curington said that Hunt drove a car....not a pickup....   I'd like to know EXACTLY what kind of vehicle Hunt drove?   Many years ago I remember reading that he drove a ten year old Oldsmobile.....  Perhaps someone near Dallas could call John Curington and ask him?