Et tu, Bonnie?

[Dan O'meara]

Dan I believe there is not a fold at the very left end, merely one side of the open end of the bag curled away from the rest. Can anyone see any evidence that the open end was ever sealed?

I was thinking the open end of the bag was to the right and that the lighter coloured paper was a flap that went over the open end.

[Colin Crow]

Note the stain. There is one end sealed, the open end is crinkled.

[Dan O'meara]

Note the stain. There is one end sealed, the open end is crinkled.

I see what you're saying.
Totally baffled by the appearance of the bottom of CE 142.

[Bill Chapman]

I take it you are suggesting Buell and Linnie May concocted a description of a bag designed to take the heat off him.

RingRing
Linnie: Buell, shorten the bag.
Buell: What bag?
Llnnie: The bag that could get you fried.
Buell: I wasn't really paying attention to the bag. But now that I think about it, he did seem to be trying to hide it...

[Martin Weidmann]

RingRing
Linnie: Buell, shorten the bag.
Buell: What bag?
Llnnie: The bag that could get you fried.
Buell: I wasn't really paying attention to the bag. But now that I think about it, he did seem to be trying to hide it...

Let me guess, she called him on his mobile phone, right?

[Dan O'meara]

Note the stain. There is one end sealed, the open end is crinkled.

Just trying to understand what was happening with the "closed" end of the bag.
Noticed a triangular(ish) shape (black line) familiar from wrapping presents. The end of the bag is folded into a triangle then folded back on the bag (at the yellow line), then taped down. Most of the bag is dark brown but just outside the triangular area it is lighter where, I assume, the tape held the triangular piece against the bag.
All of this appears to have been undone for whatever reason.
I still make it 37" from the fold (yellow line) and the open end of the bag.

The weird thing is, the way I imagine the bag is constructed at the closed end is not what I'm seeing in the photo of the bag outside the TSBD steps.

[Richard Smith]

The Dan Rather/CBS video on You Tube shows how the bag might have appeared as carried by Oswald and how Frazier might easily have been mistaken.

Might have appeared? It's one of the most deceitful videos of the entire case. The package that Rather was holding was tightly wrapped and in no way similar to the bag the witnesses saw. The only purpose was to make the part allegedly sticking out over his shoulder as small as it could be. Another pathetic attempt to explain away the problems with the bag is to claim that Frazier only saw Oswald from behind which is simply not true.

So many lies and half-truths in one post and still "Richard" is surprised that nobody believes a word he says.

LOL.  Let's see.  Rather carried a MC rifle like the one found on the 6th floor wrapped in the same type of paper.  That's apparently deceitful only because it highlights the absurdity of your claim. 

[Dan O'meara]

It has fold marks and is folded and sealed at one end. The other end had no such fold. The longest part of unassembled rifle was just under 35" in length, how long was the bag?

There is a piece of tape running most of the length of the bag.
I'm assuming this is where the overlap/seam of the folded paper was stuck down lengthwise.
The long piece of tape is overlapped by two pieces of tape on one of the folds.
The length of all this tape from the closed end is about 30".
From the end of the tape to the open end of the bag there is no tape. I'm assuming the seam is left open.
This strongly indicates to me that whoever constructed the bag did it to carry an object less than 30" long.
I have to conclude this bag was never made to carry a rifle, assembled or disassembled.