Oswald and the Dallas Police Department's Record of Planting Evidence

[Michael T. Griffith]

Mr. McCLOY. Do you solemnly swear the testimony you give at this hearing will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Mr. DAY. I do.
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Mr. BELIN. Do you know what Commission Exhibit No. 637 is?
Mr. DAY. This is the trace of palmprint I lifted off of the barrel of the gun after I had removed the wood.
Mr. BELIN. Does it have your name on it or your handwriting?
Mr. DAY. It has the name "J. C. Day," and also "11/22/63" written on it in my writing off the underside gun barrel near the end of foregrip, C-2766.

https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/day1.htm

Umm, yes, but when the WC then looked into Day's story about the palmprint, even they became skeptical, as we know from released WC memos. That's why they asked him to sign a sworn statement reaffirming that he lifted the palmprint. Your arguments are once again decades behind the information curve.

I notice you said nothing about the fact that Day, in violation of DPD procedure and all common sense and competence, incredibly "failed" to take a single photograph of the print on the barrel. He took photos of the worthless trigger-guard prints but not of the alleged palmprint.

I also notice you said nothing about my article on the evidence that the palmprint was planted:

"Was Oswald's Palmprint Planted on the Alleged Murder Weapon?"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NzWhdO-Ak3nbuxl8vsy62-fpLTBMBvPx/view

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[Benjamin Cole]

MG-

I think most JFKA researchers have concluded the WC was a prosecution, not an investigation.

But I think you should also review the HSCA, which struck me as a lot of smart and skeptical guys, and their conclusions.

The HSCA concluded LHO was the lone gunman who fired shots that struck JFK, but that there likely was a gunsel on the GK also.

It may be LHO was involved in the JFKA up to his eyeballs.

[Michael T. Griffith]

MG-

I think most JFKA researchers have concluded the WC was a prosecution, not an investigation.

But I think you should also review the HSCA, which struck me as a lot of smart and skeptical guys, and their conclusions.

The HSCA concluded LHO was the lone gunman who fired shots that struck JFK, but that there likely was a gunsel on the GK also.

It may be LHO was involved in the JFKA up to his eyeballs.

The HSCA was a big improvement over the WC, but the HSCA also pulled a lot of punches, got some things wrong, and did not have the benefit of the information and research that came along in the 1990s. For starters, they didn't deal with the evidence that Oswald was not on the sixth floor during the shooting. That evidence has grown in the years following the HSCA with the discovery of the Stroud memo and the interviewing of Adams, Styles, and Garner, proving that Oswald could not have been on the sixth floor during the shooting since he could not have been on the stairs before they were.

The HSCA's authentication of the backyard rifle photos was truly awful, as I explain in "The HSCA and Fraud in the Backyard Rifle Photos" (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JiOqKWO-XJSO-z_lk6bSgUBXq_vD1yZs/view). The PEP experts stared right at clear evidence of fakery in their Penrose analysis and parallax measurements but ignored it. Their alleged duplication of the variant shadows was so transparently bogus that Congressman Fithian got one of the PEP members to admit that the reconstruction was not realistic (the mannequin's head was turned so far to the side that it was almost not facing the camera, among other issues).

On other hand, the HSCA PEP, to its great credit, acknowledged that JFK was hit at Z186-190, a truly historic admission because the sixth-floor gunman's view of JFK would have been obstructed by the oak tree in those frames. But, to salvage the SBT, the PEP then erroneously concluded that Connally was hit by Z223 and that he starts to react in Z224, when Connally himself adamantly insisted he was not hit before Z229 and when his Z224 "reaction" (a frown and some stiffening of his upper body) was far more likely due to Connally's concern over having heard a gunshot and being worried about JFK.

The HSCA PEP, again to its great credit, also admitted that photographic evidence shows that boxes were being moved around in the sixth-floor window within two minutes of the shooting, at a time when Oswald could not have been the one moving the boxes.

The HSCA, to its great credit, found good evidence that Oswald was being impersonated in Mexico City, but then it sealed that evidence (the Lopez-Hardway report) for 50 years. It would still be sealed if the ARRB had not come along.

The HSCA, again to its great credit, interviewed many key autopsy witnesses, but then it falsely claimed that their descriptions of the large head wound contradicted those given by the Dallas doctors and nurses, when in fact they did not.

The HSCA's investigation into the Tippit shooting was superficial and ignored exculpatory evidence.

The HSCA's FPP was a mixed bag. They admitted that the back-wound bullet struck at an upward angle and that the wound was tunneled upward. They admitted that the WC mislocated the back wound. They found a second fragment on the outer table of the skull, but then failed to explain how it could have gotten there. They refused to conduct an SBT wound ballistics test, because they knew how it would turn out.

The HSCA did great work on the Secret Service's suspiciously bad performance, concluding that the protection may have been "uniquely insecure." Belford Lawson, the HSCA attorney assigned to investigate the Secret Service angle, did a great job. His memo on the suspicious Secret Service failures was fantastic and historic, but very little of it found its way into the final report.

The HSCA, to its great credit, acknowledged that Silvia Odio was credible and her account truthful, but it conspicuously failed to address the enormous implications of her account. The HSCA was just not prepared to admit that Oswald was being impersonated and framed for the assassination before it occurred, but at least it did not destroy the Lopez-Hardway report and did not reject Odio's account.

The HSCA's crowning achievement was the acoustical evidence of four shots and a shot from the grassy knoll, but HSCA chief counsel Blakey pressured the BBN scientists to reject the 140.3 impulse as a fifth gunshot, even though it passed the echo-delay matching test, and even though 8 of its 10 impulses matched the impulses of one of the Dealey Plaza test shots. That fifth gunshot must have been fired by a gunman in the Dal-Tex Building or the County Records Building, and Blakey feared that the Committee would not be able to stomach admitting that three gunmen fired at JFK.




 

[Royell Storing]

    Oswald was Q/A'd about the Phony ID he had on him when he was arrested. He answered, "You're the cop, you figure it out". To me, there being absolutely no denial in that response confirms that he was carrying a Phony ID. Until evidence is presented placing Oswald in the sniper's nest window, he remains a "supporting" player in the JFK Assassination.