Officer “K”

[Walt Cakebread]

Officer "K" would not be part of the chain of custody for the jacket unless he had possession of the jacket. He did not.

If "K" didn't have possession of the jacket, then why did he say that it was difficult to ride the motorcycle while holding the Jacket?

[John Iacoletti]

Officer "K" would not be part of the chain of custody for the jacket unless he had possession of the jacket. He did not.

According to "officer K", he did.  According to Bowles.

[Tim Nickerson]

If "K" didn't have possession of the jacket, then why did he say that it was difficult to ride the motorcycle while holding the Jacket?

When and where did he say that?

[Jerry Freeman]

Officer "K" would not be part of the chain of custody for the jacket unless he had possession of the jacket. He did not.

If he found it then he did!  Find = to obtain...to attain...to recover... to [need I go on?]
The Report said Westbrook found the jacket. A lie or didn't happen
Too much suffering here of Warren-itus....seek help.

[Tim Nickerson]

If he found it then he did!  Find = to obtain...to attain...to recover... to [need I go on?]
The Report said Westbrook found the jacket. A lie or didn't happen
Too much suffering here of Warren-itus....seek help.

Officer "K" was the first person to see the jacket but he did not pick it up. He did not take possession of it. Hence, he would not be a link in any chain of custody. Westbrook picked it up.

[Jerry Freeman]

So, what's the big deal in hiding this guy's identity for so many decades?

I think it was a simple and respectful professional courtesy towards fellow police officers, mainly so they wouldn't be hounded and accused of being in on the assassination and cover-up by JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theorists and the so-called Skeptics.

How stupid is that answer?

Officer "K" was the first person to see the jacket but he did not pick it up. He did not take possession of it. Hence, he would not be a link in any chain of custody. Westbrook picked it up.

I see. A patrolman sees the jacket and has his Captain do the crawling under the car to get it. No wonder he is an Officer K.

Mr. WESTBROOK. Actually, I didn't find it--it was pointed out to me by either some officer that--that was while we were going over the scene in the close area where the shooting was concerned, someone pointed. out a jacket to me that was laying under a car and I got the jacket and told the officer to take the license number.
Mr. BALL. When did this happen? You gave me a sort of a resume of what you had done, but you omitted this incident.
Mr. WESTBROOK. I tell you what--this occurred shortly--let me think just a minute.
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Mr. BALL. Why did you get out of the car at that time?
Mr. WESTBROOK. Just more or less searching--just no particular reason--just searching the area.
Mr. BALL. You were just looking around to see what you could see?
Mr. WESTBROOK. Yes; and at this time I had a shotgun--I had borrowed a shotgun from a patrolman.

Westbrook testified. I wonder why?
See....   https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,1022.msg22886.html#msg22886

[John Iacoletti]

When and where did he say that?

Did you not read the quote from "Officer K" that Charles Collins posted in the first post in this thread?

[Jerry Freeman]

That's when we found his jacket. We saw Captain ______ in his car on Jefferson so I turned the jacket over to him. It isn't easy to handle a motorcycle and hang on to a jacket.

Who is "we"? Officer K and Officer L? How about Capt W? When you find something and then turn it over..that starts a chain of custody boys and girls.