Spot The Difference

[Dan O'meara]

Which is the correct set up?
Why are they different?

[Martin Weidmann]

Which is the correct set up?
Why are they different?

They are different because DPD officers messed with the potential crime scene by moving boxes.
And they did so without leaving any prints. Go figure!

[Dan O'meara]

They are different because DPD officers messed with the potential crime scene by moving boxes.
And they did so without leaving any prints. Go figure!

I was under the impression the boxes were covered with prints, I could be wrong.

How can there be two photos of completely different set-ups in evidence?

[Martin Weidmann]

I was under the impression the boxes were covered with prints, I could be wrong.

How can there be two photos of completely different set-ups in evidence?

Oh there were prints on the boxes. Two parcials linked to Oswald and some 25 apparently linked to DPD officer Studebaker, but that last link wasn't made until September 1964 when the WC report was already being printed.

Astonishing isn't it. Studebaker allegedly left 25 prints just moving a couple of boxes and Oswald allegedly left only two parcials while building the entire snipers nest. I have a bridge for sale for anybody who believes this!

How can there be two photos of completely different set-ups in evidence?

There are two sets of photos, one taken on 11/22/64 and the other one or two days later. Can you imagine what would have happened if those two sets would have been presented in a court?

[Bill Chapman]

Which is the correct set up?
Why are they different?

The first one. I read they were photographed in position, removed for fingerprinting, then replaced later at random. There's a Getty Images photo of the second image from a different angle in which the boxes appear to be almost dirty; which I took to be powder from the fingerprinting procedure.

[Richard Smith]

Oh there were prints on the boxes. Two parcials linked to Oswald and some 25 apparently linked to DPD officer Studebaker, but that last link wasn't made until September 1964 when the WC report was already being printed.

Astonishing isn't it. Studebaker allegedly left 25 prints just moving a couple of boxes and Oswald allegedly left only two parcials while building the entire snipers nest. I have a bridge for sale for anybody who believes this!

How can there be two photos of completely different set-ups in evidence?

There are two sets of photos, one taken on 11/22/64 and the other one or two days later. Can you imagine what would have happened if those two sets would have been presented in a court?

Who claimed Oswald built the entire SN?  Oswald just moved a few boxes to use as a shooting platform and left his prints.  The other boxes were already in place. One print is enough to conclusively link him to the boxes.  What is so astonishing about an investigator who touched the boxes leaving his prints on them while he searched for evidence?

[Martin Weidmann]

Who claimed Oswald built the entire SN?  Oswald just moved a few boxes to use as a shooting platform and left his prints.  The other boxes were already in place. One print is enough to conclusively link him to the boxes.  What is so astonishing about an investigator who touched the boxes leaving his prints on them while he searched for evidence?

The other boxes were already in place.

Really? Says who?

One print is enough to conclusively link him to the boxes.

Yes indeed... boxes at his place of work, where part of his job was moving boxes. Big deal!

What is so astonishing about an investigator who touched the boxes leaving his prints on them while he searched for evidence?

That's not astonishing. That is what one would accept when those boxes full with books are handled. What is astonishing is that Oswald allegedly handled those same boxes and only left two parcial prints yet Studebaker alone is supposed to have left 25.

[Richard Smith]

The other boxes were already in place.

Really? Says who?

One print is enough to conclusively link him to the boxes.

Yes indeed... boxes at his place of work, where part of his job was moving boxes. Big deal!

What is so astonishing about an investigator who touched the boxes leaving his prints on them while he searched for evidence?

That's not astonishing. That is what one would accept when those boxes full with books are handled. What is astonishing is that Oswald allegedly handled those same boxes and only left two parcial prints yet Studebaker alone is supposed to have left 25.

We have gone over this one a thousand times.  Oswald is the only TSBD employee to leave his prints on the SN boxes.  So the excuse that "he worked there" doesn't cut.  Other folks worked on that floor but didn't leave their prints on the boxes used by the sniper.  And you really believe the official story is that every single box around the 6th floor would have been moved there by Oswald to construct the SN?  And that none of those boxes were already in place.  Wow.