Lack Of Damage To CE-399

[Walt Cakebread]

Simply amazing, how every single piece of physical evidence somehow turns into a source for confusion and controversy.

It is amazing.....  And if the investigators had truly been investigators there wouldn't be controversy.    But The DPD lead by the senile Captain fritz simply botched one piece of evidence after another....   At first Hoover was furious that the DPD was revealing so much evidence, but he then realized that they could create a confused mess out of the information and misinformation, and add some false evidence to the mess and then nobody would ever be able to solve the case. 

[John Iacoletti]

On the night of 11/22/63 the DPD released 15 items of evidence to the FBI....  A couple of days later the FBI returned 9 items to the DPD....

the items that were not returned ( or at least were not listed  ) is:.....

1) The brass button from Tippit's jacket
2) several fragments taken from the body of Gov Connally.......( the FBI returned only one fragment)
3) 1- Piece of cardboard containing palm print of subject
4) 3-Empty cardboard boxes A, B. & C
5) 1-Cardboard box , empty, size 11 3/4"  X 13"  X  17 1/2"  from which thumb print of subject was found.
6) 1- Partial palm print "off underside gun barrel near end of foregrip "  on rifle # C2766
7) 3- negatives of partial prints found on trigger housing of rifle ser # C2766

Bull. The magic partial palmprint didn’t get to the FBI until November 29th.

[Gerry Down]

Bull. The magic partial palmprint didn’t get to the FBI until November 29th.

That means nothing. A dead body cant give a fingerprint. So the print was not lifted off Oswalds body after he died as Oliver Stone claimed in the JFK movie.

[Martin Weidmann]

That means nothing. A dead body cant give a fingerprint. So the print was not lifted off Oswalds body after he died as Oliver Stone claimed in the JFK movie.

It is also near impossible to lift a print and leave no residue behind. The FBI examined the rifle on 11/23/63 and found no trace of a print.

[John Iacoletti]

That means nothing. A dead body cant give a fingerprint. So the print was not lifted off Oswalds body after he died as Oliver Stone claimed in the JFK movie.

Then what were the police doing at the funeral home with a fingerprint kit?

[Tim Nickerson]

That means nothing. A dead body cant give a fingerprint. So the print was not lifted off Oswalds body after he died as Oliver Stone claimed in the JFK movie.

Actually, you can get prints off of a dead body with the use of ink.

[Tim Nickerson]

It is also near impossible to lift a print and leave no residue behind. The FBI examined the rifle on 11/23/63 and found no trace of a print.

Near impossible? Where do you get that from?

[Martin Weidmann]

Near impossible? Where do you get that from?

The content of the letter you posted has nothing to do with risidue of a print being left behind when the print is lifted.

The FBI found not even a trace of a print on 11/23/63. When the rifle is returned to the DPD, Day has prints of Oswald's hand and palm available.

How easy would it be to stick such a print to the rifle and thus obtain the irregularities onto the lift?