Oswald's Light-Colored Jacket

[Tim Nickerson]

No further claims here from the defenders of the Oswald did it Report?
Continuing... I don't see this Captain Westbrook's initials [who was supposedly involved with it's alleged discovery] on the jacket....How come?

Probably because he never placed his initials on it. It wasn't necessary for him to do so.

[Martin Weidmann]

Probably because he never placed his initials on it. It wasn't necessary for him to do so.

Really, Tim?

Westbrook was prominent in the chain of custody, wasn't he? He is the main link between the white jacket found in the parking lot and the grey jacket delivered to the evidence room some two hours later, isn't he?

Or does none of that matter and will the initials of anybody, even people who never handled the jacket, do for you?

[Bill Brown]

The really important question is... Oswald was seen leaving the rooming house zipping up a jacket as he went out the door.  He was seen at Hardy's Shoe Store without a jacket on.  Let's assume for a minute that he never was at Tenth and Patton.  Why did he ditch his jacket somewhere between the rooming house and the shoe store?

[Martin Weidmann]

No. The really important question is: Did Oswald indeed leave the roominghouse wearing a jacket?

[Tim Nickerson]

Really, Tim?

Westbrook was prominent in the chain of custody, wasn't he? He is the main link between the white jacket found in the parking lot and the grey jacket delivered to the evidence room some two hours later, isn't he?

Or does none of that matter and will the initials of anybody, even people who never handled the jacket, do for you?

The initials on the jacket were not necessary. The jacket had something on it that made it readily identifiable.

[Martin Weidmann]

The initials on the jacket were not necessary. The jacket had something on it that made it readily identifiable.

You mean the dry-cleaner label in the gray jacket that the FBI couldn't trace back to it's origin?

[Bill Brown]

Housekeeper Earlene Roberts, to a radio reporter on the afternoon of the assassination, stated that Oswald was wearing a "short gray coat" as he left the rooming house.  She told the FBI that she remembered Oswald putting on a jacket and zipping it up as he went out the front door, adding that it was the type of jacket that zips up in the front.