A 12-1 article in the Washington Star by Jerry O'Leary, a writer more than friendly with the FBI's Deke DeLoach, and someone upon whom the FBI regularly relies to get their stories before the public, declares: "PIECE OF OSWALD'S SHIRT FOUND SNAGGED IN RIFLE." It then goes on to claim "A fragment of Lee Harvey Oswald's shirt was snagged in the rifle that killed President John F. Kennedy, the FBI report of the assassination states. Disclosure of this evidence against the 24 year-old Oswald, himself slain two days after Mr. Kennedy's death, is regarded as one of the most solid pieces of evidence of his guilt. Officials said wisps of brown shirt material were caught in metal parts of the 6.5 mm Italian-made carbine found on the fifth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building a few minutes after the fatal shots were fired on November 22. When Oswald was arrested two hours later, he was wearing a brown shirt of the same material. Oswald claimed he had changed his shirt in his rooming house after leaving the assassination area, but this proved to be untrue. FBI Crime Lab technicians determined by microscopic and other scientific means that the fragment of shirt material came from the shirt the ex-Marine was wearing."
The story presented to the trusting and grieving American public at the time (December 63) said that The FBI had found a tuft of fibers on the butt plate of the TSBD carcano. The FBI said that the carcano belonged to Lee Oswald and it was the rifle used to kill President Kennedy. They also said that the tuft of fibers matched the shirt that Lee Oswald was wearing at the time of the murder, and that was the same shirt that Lee was wearing at the Texas Theater.
Since the FBI swore that the fibers matched the shirt that Lee was wearing when he was brought into the Dallas police station and the same shirt that was sent to the FBI lab at midnight 11/22/63 ...then by extension ..The FBI is saying that the fibers were planted on that carcano after both the rifle and the shirt were in possession of the police. Because at the time of the murder Lee was NOT wearing the shirt from which the tuft of fibers were snagged . At the time that JFK was murdered Lee was wearing a reddish brown shirt and he removed that soiled shirt in his room at 1:00pm and put on the shirt that the tuft of fibers came from.
