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[John Iacoletti]

How could Drain think that the palm print wasn't legitimate while at the same time believing that Carl Day wouldn't lie?

When did he say Carl Day wouldn’t lie? And how would he even know that?

[John Iacoletti]

No witnesses to the Tippit slaying described the killer in terms that did not resemble Oswald at all.

No witnesses in the days, weeks, months and years following Nov 22, 1962 said Oswald entered the Texas Theater just a few minutes after 1:00 P.M., and that he remained in the theater until he was arrested there about an hour later. You have to jump forward two and a half decades before Marrs could find a  mentally challenged individual who he could get to make claims contrary to testimony that he gave to the Warren Commission.

Evidence, please, that Butch Burroughs was “mentally challenged”.

[John Iacoletti]

Poe said that he could not swear that he had marked the shells.

So then the Benavides shells have no provenance.

Dhority and Doughty did definitely mark their shells and , as such, were both able to positively identify their respective shells.

Dhority and Doughty were handed shells by civilians and just told that they were found near the crime scene. How would they know if that was true or not?

Besides, how hard would it be to scratch “GD” on any random shell and show it to a guy 5 months later? What’s he gonna say?

Those shells were matched to Oswald's revolver to the exclusion of all other weapons.

“Oswald’s revolver”. LOL.

You mean the revolver that Gerald Hill pulled out of his pocket 1.5-2 hours after Oswald’s arrest and then had everyone initial it.

[Bill Chapman]

Evidence, please, that Butch Burroughs was “mentally challenged”.

'Mentally challenged'

Mr Ball. Where did you go to school?
Mr. BURROUGHS. Well, I'm going to private school 2 days a week. I stopped going to public school in the ninth grade.
Mr. BALL. You quit in the ninth grade?
Mr. BURROUGHS. I stopped in the ninth grade, but I'm going to private school 2 days a week over in Highland Park.
Mr. BALL. You are now?
Mr. BURROUGHS. Yes; I am now.
Mr. BALL. How old are you?
Mr. BURROUGHS. Twenty-two.
Mr. BALL. What have you been doing most of your life what kind of work have you been doing?
Mr. BURROUGHS. I worked at the Texas Theatre and I helped my dad out as an apprentice, he is an electrician.
Mr. BALL. Were you ever in the Army?
Mr. BURROUGHS. No, sir----they tried to get me, but I couldn't pass----I passed the physical part, but the mental part----I didn't make enough points on the score, so the board sent me a card back and classifying me different.

[Tim Nickerson]

Evidence, please, that Butch Burroughs was “mentally challenged”.

Mr. BALL. Were you ever in the Army?
Mr. BURROUGHS. No, sir----they tried to get me, but I couldn't pass----I passed the physical part, but the mental part----I didn't make enough points on the score, so the board sent me a card back and classifying me different.

[Tim Nickerson]

'Mentally challenged'

Mr Ball. Where did you go to school?
Mr. BURROUGHS. Well, I'm going to private school 2 days a week. I stopped going to public school in the ninth grade.
Mr. BALL. You quit in the ninth grade?
Mr. BURROUGHS. I stopped in the ninth grade, but I'm going to private school 2 days a week over in Highland Park.
Mr. BALL. You are now?
Mr. BURROUGHS. Yes; I am now.
Mr. BALL. How old are you?
Mr. BURROUGHS. Twenty-two.
Mr. BALL. What have you been doing most of your life what kind of work have you been doing?
Mr. BURROUGHS. I worked at the Texas Theatre and I helped my dad out as an apprentice, he is an electrician.
Mr. BALL. Were you ever in the Army?
Mr. BURROUGHS. No, sir----they tried to get me, but I couldn't pass----I passed the physical part, but the mental part----I didn't make enough points on the score, so the board sent me a card back and classifying me different.

 

[Michael T. Griffith]

The HSCA photographic experts confirmed the authenticity of the Backyard photos, did they not? Who since then has examined the actual photos and negative(s) , together with the camera, and came to a different conclusion?

I discuss the backyard rifle photos in chapter 5 of Hasty Judgment. So you are commenting on my book but have not read it? You are commenting on my response to Posner's defense of the backyard rifle photos but have not read my response?

Why don't you go read the chapter on the backyard rifle photos, chapter 5, and then address the evidence and points that I present therein?

I have also written an article that deals specifically with the HSCA photographic evidence panel's "authentication" of the backyard rifle photos: "The HSCA and Fraud in the Backyard Rifle Photos." Here's the link:

https://miketgriffith.com/files/fraud.htm

Ditto for the latent palmprint. Regarding the palmprint, after I wrote Hasty Judgment, I wrote a separate, longer analysis on the palmprint titled "Was Oswald's Palmprint Planted on the Alleged Murder Weapon?"  Here's the link:

https://miketgriffith.com/files/palmprint.htm