WC-FBI Suppressed NAA Evidence that Oswald Did NOT Fire a Rifle on 11/22/63

[Michael T. Griffith]

According to some of resident WC defenders, the FBI experts should have said the following,

"It really means nothing that NAA testing of Oswald's paraffin cast found no traces of nitrates nor of any other chemical indicator that he'd fired a rifle on 11/22, and that NAA control testing of the riflemen in the Oak Ridge tests found that NAA was 100% reliable in detecting nitrates in paraffin casts of men who'd fired a rifle. All of this means nothing, since no two Carcano rifles will discharge GSR in the same way! Yeah! In fact, we don't even know why we bothered to arrange the Oak Ridge tests in the first place! Nothing to see here!"

But, of course, not even the FBI, as desperate as they were to find/manufacture evidence of Oswald's guilt, did not float such an absurd argument.

In fact, the FBI spent 10 long years and millions of dollars in legal fees fighting Harold Weisberg and James Lesar's FOIA lawsuit to obtain the Oak Ridge tests' raw data.

We all know that if the Oak Ridge NAA testing of Oswald's paraffin cast had found evidence of nitrates and/or other chemical indicators that he'd fired a rifle on 11/22, WC apologists would be shouting this from the rooftops. They'd also be pointing out that the control test with several other riflemen proved that NAA was 100% reliable in detecting nitrate residues in paraffin casts of men who'd fired a rifle.

The most exhaustive analysis of the testing of Oswald's paraffin cast is Pat Speer's chapter on the subject in his online book A New Perspective on the Kennedy Assassination:

https://www.patspeer.com/chapter4fcastsofcontention

Here's a greatly shortened version of Speer's analysis titled "Bugliosi Fails the Paraffin Test":

https://www.whokilledjfk.net/paraffin_test.htm

Jeremy Bojczuk's article "Oswald's Paraffin Casts" is a helpful introduction to this key evidence:

https://reopenkennedycase.forumotion.net/t2049-oswald-s-paraffin-casts