Oswald's Fingerprint Evidence

[Pat Speer]

The man shooting a rifle out the window was described as wearing a light-colored shirt.  Oswald could have been wearing only the white t-shirt during the shooting, with the brown arrest shirt laying on a nearby box.  After the shooting, while making his way across the sixth floor towards the stairs, Oswald uses the brown arrest shirt to wipe down the rifle in an attempt to clear it of prints.

This theory doesn't hold up. The rifle had prints on the trigger guard (the first place Oswald would have wiped) which were not smeared.

[Bill Chapman]

According to whom, you?

I wanted a LNer to quote some expert testimony that it wouldn't be unusual for so few prints to show up on items that were heavily handled, especially the rifle. Not to tell me to go read a book.

Face it, the fingerprint evidence SUCKS and you can't defend it. But when push comes to shove, you LNers are all about discrediting and obfuscation, cuz that's all you got.

All you've got is AnybodyButOswald.

[Bill Chapman]

This theory doesn't hold up. The rifle had prints on the trigger guard (the first place Oswald would have wiped) which were not smeared.

I heard they were smudged and not usable

[Bill Chapman]

Obviously, I'm not cuz I didn't read a book. So is this all you LNers got? Sad.

Why are you attempting to substitute opinion for science? Just how much effort does it take to read up on the subject?

I posted this several months ago:

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/why-we-dont-find-fingerprints-on-firearms/

[Bill Brown]

The man shooting a rifle out the window was described as wearing a light-colored shirt.  Oswald could have been wearing only the white t-shirt during the shooting, with the brown arrest shirt laying on a nearby box.  After the shooting, while making his way across the sixth floor towards the stairs, Oswald uses the brown arrest shirt to wipe down the rifle in an attempt to clear it of prints.

This theory doesn't hold up. The rifle had prints on the trigger guard (the first place Oswald would have wiped) which were not smeared.

Your post assumes two things.

One, Oswald would be sure to wipe the trigger guard.

Two, Oswald, if he tried to wipe the trigger guard, did it successfully.

Personally, I think it's as simple as the wooden stock of the rifle was too rough to hold prints.

[Rob Caprio]

The man shooting a rifle out the window was described as wearing a light-colored shirt.  Oswald could have been wearing only the white t-shirt during the shooting, with the brown arrest shirt laying on a nearby box.  After the shooting, while making his way across the sixth floor towards the stairs, Oswald uses the brown arrest shirt to wipe down the rifle in an attempt to clear it of prints.

This sounds like a guess to me. A guess DVP has made for years. We are talking just 90 seconds here. If he did this, how did he have time to do everything else that was claimed of him?

[Rob Caprio]

Yes, he might have taken the precaution to avoid having the shirt sleeves snag on something in the process of operating the weapon.

So explain how the shirt fibers allegedly got on the rifle butt then.