I heard it was a broom handle. [short broom huh?]
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Jerry, Many years ago I saw a photo of Detective Montgomery leaving the TSBD with detective Marvin Johnson to the rear and Johnson was carrying the viceroy cigarette package and a Dr pepper soda bottle ON A STICK . Day admitted that he had checked the soda bottle but the finger prints on it were not lee Oswald's so they threw the soda bottle away. THAT is an open admission that the DPD was framing Lee Oswald.. They weren't interested in any evidence that might have cleared Lee Oswald and pointed to the person who drank Dr pepper, and smoked Viceroy cigarettes. I suspect that those items were handled by Charles Givens.....And Given's is the person who constructed the cubby hole ( "Sniper's Nest" ) as a place where he could hide from Shelley and smoke by an open window ( smoking was prohibited in the warehouse area's of the building )
The photo that I saw Showed a curved handle like a cane or an umbrella in detective Montgomery's hand. When I saw that photo my first thought was there was a cane supporting the gigantic paper sack, and I didn't know that Montgomery used a cane. That photo was published in a magazine or book .....And I can't remember where I saw that photo....