No, the key point is that no one has established that Day couldn’t have.
Day was ordered to stop processing. Day followed his orders. That is the reason that it wasn’t done.
A snip from “No More Silence” by Larry Sneed, pages 238-239:
Around 11:30 that night I received orders which merely said, “Release the rifle to the FBI.” Shortly thereafter I handed it over to Vince Drain of the FBI. I told him, “There’s a trace of a print here” and showed him where it was. It was just a verbal communication to him. I didn’t have time to make any written reports; I just gave it to him and he signed for it without saying anything. I don’t remember whether he wrapped it up with anything or not, but he took it on to Washington that night. It’s a funny thing about that. We had a few other items around such as some of his clothes and paper off the roll at the Book Depository that we didn’t do anything else with. I didn’t send the card lift either. They told me not to do anything else, so I didn’t even look at it again. …
… About four or five days later, an FBI man rolled up at the house and wanted to know where I had gotten the palm print. In Washington, they didn’t find any prints on the gun at all. I don’t know why they didn’t locate that piece of print that I thought was still there. However, if I had received it with powder all over it, I probably would have thrown up my hands because somebody else had been messing with it. I suspect that’s what happened with the man in Washington. There were too many irons in the fire, too many fingers in the pie! But anyway, they didn’t find any prints, or didn’t find that one or were unable to do anything with what I thought was on there. It may have been that there wasn’t enough there, but I thought I could still see it. But anyway, I sent this palm print on the card to Washington. Of course, they identified it as Oswald’s, but they thought that I had gotten it off the gun after it had been sent back to us, which wasn’t true. So they were in kind of a stew. They thought their man in Washington had missed the print. After I explained what had happened, I guess that got him off the hook.
To know that Day told the FBI a few days after the assassination that he lifted the palm print on 11/22/63. And then to believe that Day would then turn around and write a report to his superiors a few weeks later that says he couldn’t verify the ID (due to the rifle being sent away) is pure lunacy.
Altering Day’s report’s sentences by leaving out relevant phrases and trying to insert words he didn’t use (and trying to pass that off as what one is supposed to think Day was trying to say) is an insult to anyone with any intelligence. All this ridiculous argument is is someone trying to support their point of view by using blatantly dishonest means.
Garbage. 30 years too late. Drain said that evening Washington was calling every 15 minutes to find out what they had.
It is beyond dumb to think Drain didn't know exactly what that was before he left Dallas.
Interesting that NO DPD officers went to DC, instead it was only Drain and a top FBI from New Orleans, Warren deBrueys.
Harold Weisberg described deBrueys to the Grand Jury in the Shaw trial:
"...Warren deBrueys is fluent in Spanish, translates documents, he is one of these Spanish experts,
he is one of the Oswald experts, Pena had been an informant for him reporting on those for Castro.
When Oswald left New Orleans so did deBnueys. When Oswald wound up in Dallas so did deBrueys.
When he was no longer in Dallas neither was deBrueys. He came back to New Orleans when Oswald got murdered,
a remarkable coincidence, gentlemen. "
https://jfk.boards.net/post/3290/thread+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sebastian Latona | WC TestimonyRepresentative BOGGS. And the witness has also certified that those are Oswald's prints?
Mr. LATONA. No; I cannot certify to that.
Mr. EISENBERG. Do you want to explain that?
Mr. LATONA. As I am not the one that fingerprinted Oswald, I cannot tell from my own personal knowledge that those
are actually the fingerprints of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Mr. EISENBERG. But you can certify that those prints are identical with the prints on the card which bears
the name of Lee Harvey Oswald which was furnished to you?
Mr. LATONA. That is right.
Mr. EISENBERG. We will get other evidence in the record at a subsequent time to show those were the prints of Oswald.
Mr. Latona, you were saying that you had worked over that rifle by applying a gray powder to it. Did you develop any fingerprints?
Mr. LATONA. I was not successful in developing any prints at all on the weapon.
I also had one of the firearms examiners dismantle the weapon and I processed the complete weapon, all parts, everything else.
And no latent prints of value were developed.
https://jfk.boards.net/post/4930/thread+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++and we are still waiting for your interpretation of:
“… Two fingerprints were found on the side of the rifle near the trigger and magazine housing and a palm print was found on the underside of the gun barrel near the end of the stock. It appeared probable that these prints were from the right palm and fingers of Lee Harvey Oswald, but the rifle was released to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be sent to Washington, D.C. before the examination was completed and positive identification of the prints could be made. …”