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[Jack Trojan]

The Mac Wallace myth
From Faustian Bargains
by Joan Mellen

JFKFacts
October 12, 2016

[Excerpt]

Fingerprint

Mellen?s biggest service is to revisit the story of an unidentified fingerprint found on a box on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Numerous JFK researchers have repeated the claim that the fingerprint was that of Mac Wallace, an LBJ associate who apparently murdered a man whom he believed to have slept with his wife. As Mellen shows with a careful reconstruction of the case, Wallace escaped punishment for the crime thanks to legal machinations of Texas politicos aligned with LBJ. From these events arose the hoary legend that Mac Wallace had something to do with JFK?s assassination.

Mellen kills the legend. She points out that the two ?experts? who said that fingerprint came from Wallace were not certified identification experts at the time of their claims. They also used a faulty image of the fingerprint. She notes that the JFK authors who repeated the story of the Mac Wallace fingerprint often used identical language without ever bothering verify the claim.

By contrast, Mellen did the due diligence. She obtained a quality fingerprint image from the National Archives and showed it to an accredited expert, Robert Garrett, without disclosing the issue at stake. Garrett stated, without qualification, that the fingerprint does not match Wallace?s. Mellen reproduces his methodology. The Mac Wallace fingerprint myth has now been definitively debunked.

Rubbish. Wallace's fingerprint is not a myth as much as you LNers would like to believe. Joan Mellen was taking the word of a member of the FBI, who originally pooh-poohed the print, based on what??? Where is their analysis/report? You can't just say nope the print doesn't match. Obviously, the FBI is still working the BS to this day. Why would Walt Brown lie? Was Darby not as competent as whomever analyzed the print at the FBI? Isn't that like the GOP overseeing the Trump investigation? Give me a break!

[John Mytton]

Rubbish. Wallace's fingerprint is not a myth as much as you LNers would like to believe. Joan Mellen was taking the word of a member of the FBI, who originally pooh-poohed the print, based on what??? Where is their analysis/report? You can't just say nope the print doesn't match. Obviously, the FBI is still working the BS to this day. Why would Walt Brown lie? Was he not as competent as whomever analyzed the print at the FBI? Isn't that like the GOP overseeing the Trump investigation? Give me a break!

The fingerprints exist so instead of your endless bleating get up off your lazy ass, take the fingerprints to someone with authority and prove something for a change.



JohnM

[Tim Nickerson]

Rubbish. Wallace's fingerprint is not a myth as much as you LNers would like to believe. Joan Mellen was taking the word of a member of the FBI, who originally pooh-poohed the print, based on what??? Where is their analysis/report? You can't just say nope the print doesn't match. Obviously, the FBI is still working the BS to this day. Why would Walt Brown lie? Was he not as competent as whomever analyzed the print at the FBI? Isn't that like the GOP overseeing the Trump investigation? Give me a break!

Uhhh...do you know who Walt Brown is?

[Jack Trojan]

Uhhh...do you know who Walt Brown is?

He's the researcher who got A. Nathan Darby to analyze the fingerprint and declared it a match to Wallace. Didn't he?

[Jack Trojan]

The fingerprints exist so instead of your endless bleating get up off your lazy ass, take the fingerprints to someone with authority and prove something for a change.



JohnM

  Did you get off your lazy ass and do my laser experiment yet? I'll bet you did and you're choked over the results!

[Tim Nickerson]

He's the researcher who got A. Nathan Darby to analyze the fingerprint and declared it a match to Wallace. Didn't he?

Ok. The way that you worded it sounded like you were say that Walt Brown was the expert in fingerprint identification.

Darby never analyzed a fingerprint and matched it to Wallace. He analyzed a photograph of a palm print and declared it a match to Wallace's fingerprint.

[Tim Nickerson]

Did you get off your lazy ass and do my laser experiment yet? I'll bet you did and you're choked over the results!

Get off your own lazy ass and show us the pictures and data of your laser experiment.

[Wesley Johnson]

Ok. The way that you worded it sounded like you were say that Walt Brown was the expert in fingerprint identification.

Darby never analyzed a fingerprint and matched it to Wallace. He analyzed a photograph of a palm print and declared it a match to Wallace's fingerprint.

Actually Tim, Darby did analyze a left little fingerprint of Wallace's. The problem was, it was a plant. Author Barr McClellan along with another author named Harrison gave Darby an old fingerprint card and what they claimed was a latent print and have him analyze them. Of course he said it was a match. When he was told that the only latent print found was a palm print Darby knew he had been played. It was all just so McClellan and Harrison could write a book. That's what all this has turned in to. It is just so the CT buff authors can sell books. That is why people like Harold Weisberg fight so hard against authors like Bugliosi and Posner. It kills their book sells if too many people start believing Oswald acted alone. It is disgusting that they make so much money off of lies and the president's death.