Oswald's Light-Colored Jacket

[Bill Chapman]

There is no solid chain of custody for the white jacket found at the carpark. The initials on the jacket were place there at the police station (just like it happened with the revolver) and (if Westbrook's testimony is to be believed) clearly do not correspond with the officers who actually found that jacket and took it to the station.

Except for Earlene Roberts saying so (and she was half blind and paying more attention to the TV) there is no evidence that Oswald left the rooming house wearing a jacket at all and even Roberts rejected CE 162 because the jacket she claimed to have seen was darker.

That same afternoon, DPD officers took all Oswald's belongings from the rooming house and took them to the station. If the gray jacket (CE 162) was even in Oak Cliff (and not in Irving) this is how the gray jacket could have gotten to the police station.

The same goes for the search without a warrant at Ruth Paine's house. If the gray jacket was actually there, DPD officers could have brought in to the station from there.

"Except for Earlene Roberts saying so (and she was half blind* and paying more attention to the TV")
Good thing she was only half blind, huh...still had the other half to watch Oswald zip up his jacket

*She was blind in one eye, so I suppose that makes her 'half blind' percentage-wise LOL

[Martin Weidmann]

"Except for Earlene Roberts saying so (and she was half blind* and paying more attention to the TV")
Good thing she was only half blind, huh...still had the other half to watch Oswald zip up his jacket

*She was blind in one eye, so I suppose that makes her 'half blind' percentage-wise LOL

It must be hard for you having to rely fully on a half blind woman who was paying more attention to the TV and who was known for making up stuff...

Can you imagine how the defense would have a field day destroying this witness (and a few others) on the stand, had it come to a trial?

[Gary Craig]

Lee Oswald's housekeeper
Lee Oswald's housekeeper (Earlene Roberts, right) and landlady (Gladys Johnson, left) photographed at Oswald's rooming house on the evening of the JFK assassination Courtesy Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, Special Collections Division, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries

[Bill Brown]

So you didn't understand cross contamination.

If the transfer of fibers happened while the DPD was handling the evidence they are irrelevant to the case.

What ever case you're trying to make.

I absolutely understand cross contamination.

Finally, you decided to make a point, regarding such a thing.

Show your evidence that the jacket was sitting beside the arrest shirt on a table top or that the two were placed in a box together or anything like that.  Go on.  I'll wait.

[Bill Brown]

There is no solid chain of custody for the white jacket found at the carpark. The initials on the jacket were place there at the police station (just like it happened with the revolver) and (if Westbrook's testimony is to be believed) clearly do not correspond with the officers who actually found that jacket and took it to the station.

Except for Earlene Roberts saying so (and she was half blind and paying more attention to the TV) there is no evidence that Oswald left the rooming house wearing a jacket at all and even Roberts rejected CE 162 because the jacket she claimed to have seen was darker.

That same afternoon, DPD officers took all Oswald's belongings from the rooming house and took them to the station. If the gray jacket (CE 162) was even in Oak Cliff (and not in Irving) this is how the gray jacket could have gotten to the police station.

The same goes for the search without a warrant at Ruth Paine's house. If the gray jacket was actually there, DPD officers could have brought in to the station from there.

"If"

"Could have"


You can call her half blind all you want, but the bottom line is that Earlene Roberts stated over and over that Oswald left the house zipping up a jacket.

[Bill Brown]

Or, maybe you simply don't know the meaning of very basic words, like "match".  Are those fibers exclusive to one particular shirt?  Yes or no?

Anything to railroad your suspect with phony rhetoric.  Right?

You're being dumb.

The fibers were much more than "similar".  They, in fact, were a match.

[Bill Brown]

Ah, because it was found in the TSBD 10 days later. Now, please answer my question.

For the record, the blue jacket (Ce-163) was found in the Depository on December 16th, which is much more than just ten days later.

This jacket being found inside the Depository does not prove that Oswald left the building without a jacket, however.  You haven't really proven anything.