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If Oswald Was The Assassin, Did He Plan His Escape From The TSBD Very Well?
Dan O'meara:
--- Quote from: Tim Nickerson on August 07, 2020, 06:14:18 AM ---There is no similar letter for the 22nd. I don't know if Fritz wanted the DPD to hang onto the evidence or not. It really wouldn't have mattered what he wanted. Curry was the Chief.
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This isn't just to you Tim but anyone who might have an idea or even a good guess.
Why, after badgering the DPD to give them the evidence, do the FBI return the evidence on the 24th only to take it back permanently on the 26th?
They initially take it at almost midnight on the 22nd. It arrives in Washington in the early hours of the 23rd and is returned on the 24th. Surely the FBI had no time to carry out any real investigation of the evidence. So why return it?
Is there any documentation relating to this event?
Dan O'meara:
It seems unlikely but could it be anything to do with the murder of Oswald on the 24th?
Colin Crow:
--- Quote from: Dan O'meara on August 07, 2020, 10:25:33 AM ---It seems unlikely but could it be anything to do with the murder of Oswald on the 24th?
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Thumb1:
After noon on the 24th there will be no need for a trial in Texas. And who would trust them, they just let the killer be killed in their own building.
Yet still they hung onto potential evidence even though tasked with delivering all evidence in their to the FBI for a second time!
Colin Crow:
--- Quote from: Dan O'meara on August 07, 2020, 10:21:12 AM ---This isn't just to you Tim but anyone who might have an idea or even a good guess.
Why, after badgering the DPD to give them the evidence, do the FBI return the evidence on the 24th only to take it back permanently on the 26th?
They initially take it at almost midnight on the 22nd. It arrives in Washington in the early hours of the 23rd and is returned on the 24th. Surely the FBI had no time to carry out any real investigation of the evidence. So why return it?
Is there any documentation relating to this event?
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I might guess some "tidying up" was required on some material. Chain of evidence stuff that was found lacking first time around.
Dan O'meara:
--- Quote from: Colin Crow on August 07, 2020, 10:38:43 AM ---I might guess some "tidying up" was required on some material. Chain of evidence stuff that was found lacking first time around.
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This is a Hoover memo dated 24th November (4.00pm) and declassified in 2017:
https://images.dallasobserver.com/media/pdf/docid-32263509.pdf
The pertinent paragraph reads:
"Chief of Police Curry I understand cannot control Capt. Fritz of the Homicide Squad, who is giving much information to the press. Since we now think it involves the Criminal Code on a conspiracy charge under section 241, we want them to shut up. Furthermore, I have ordered the evidence be secured by the Police Department. We sent most of the evidence back to them. We still have the bullets that were fired and will keep them."
There seems to be quite a lot of friction between the FBI and the DPD. Hoover, himself, ordered the return of the evidence to have it "secured by the Police Department". I don't know what this means and it sounds off. The very next sentence after this paragraph relates to Hoover wanting to "convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin".
Hoover is not impressed with the work of the DPD and believes it's the FBI who are doing all the important work:
"They did not really have a case against Oswald until we gave them our information. We traced the weapon, we identified the handwriting, we identified the fingerprints on the brown bag. We were able to identify the bullets as coming from that gun. All the Dallas Police had was three witnesses..."
The FBI did a lot of work on the 23rd but still had lots more to do. With this in mind, why would Hoover return all the evidence to the DPD when he is so critical of them?
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