lame.
Either the print is on the rifle that night or it is not.
There has to be some odd conspiracy theory around to account for the FBI using the irregularities of the Carcano's rifle barrel to match LHO’s palm print on the Carcano's rifle barrel. If not, maybe the time has come to invent one.
Honorable J. Lee Rankin General Counsel The President's Commission 200 Maryland Avenue, Northeast Washington, D . C.
September 4, 1964 By Courier Service Reference is made to your letter dated September 1, 1964, concerning a palm print which Lieutenant J . C . Day of the Dallas Police Department testified he lifted from the barrel of the assassination weapon, Commission Number 139 . This palm print lift has been compared with the assassination rifle in the FBI Laboratory .
The Laboratory examiners were able to positively identify this lift as having com from the assassination rifle in the area of the wooden foregrip . This conclusion is based on a comparison of irregularities in the surface of the metal of the barrel with the impressions of these irregularities an shown in the lift . A photograph marked to show several of the irregularities referred to is attached. The results of the other investigation requested in your letter will be subsequently furnished . Sincerely yours,
COMMISSION EXHIBIT NO. 2637