You complete misstate the issue with fibers. Fibers can be matched to an item.
Utter BS. At best fibers can be deemed to be similar.
What a bunch of horse pucky. Fiber evidence is highly probative and is accepted by the courts as bonafide evidence. Fiber evidence was used to convict suspected child serial Wayne Williams in Atlanta. Although he was only convicted for two murders, those convictions were made largely on the basis of the fiber evidence against him.
"Williams was arrested on June 21, 1981, for the murders of Cater and Payne.[10] His trial began on January 6, 1982, in Fulton County. During the two-month trial, prosecutors matched to a number of victims nineteen sources of fibers from Williams' home and car: his bedspread, bathroom, gloves, clothes, carpets, dog, and an unusual trilobal carpet fiber."
He wasn't convicted because the fibers were "similar"
They cannot prove with absolute certainty that a fiber can from a particular item because it is theoretically possible it came from an item with the same type of fibers.
Hilarious! So, now you confirm that fibers can indeed not be matched to a specific item with any kind of certainty.
Certainty is not necessary for fiber evidence to be highly probative. Wayne Williams was not convicted because of the certainty of the fiber matching. It was probative enough for a jury to convict him of two murders and send him to jail for the rest of his life. Once again you stake out the silly position that the evidence against Oswald must reach a level of certainty to have value. It's a good thing our courts don't adopt your position on this matter.
it would be a truly amazing coincidence if the fibers in the bag came from a different item with the same kind of fibers.
So, now we are reduced to a conclusion based on your opinion that it would be a truly amazing concidence if the fibers came from elsewhere.
This is what FBI fiber expert Stombaugh had to say on the subject of fibers;
Mr. DULLES. Or the paper bag?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Or the paper bag; no, sir.
Mr. EISENBERG. Just one further question. You said something like, "It was possible the fibers could have come from the shirt." Could you estimate the degree of probability that the fibers came from the shirt, the fibers in the butt plate?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. Well, this is difficult because we don't know how many different shirts were made out of this same type of fabric, or for that matter how many identical shirts are in existence.
Mr. EISENBERG. Mr. Stombaugh, I gather that, and correct me if I am wrong, that in your area as opposed to the fingerprint area, you prefer to present the facts rather than draw conclusions as to probabilities, is that correct?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. That is correct. I have been asked this question many times. There are some experts who will say well, the chances are 1 in 1,000, this, that, and the other, and everyone who had said that and been brought to our attention we have been able to prove them wrong, insofar as application to our fiber problems is concerned.
Mr. EISENBERG. You mean prove them wrong in terms of their mathematics?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. There is just no way at this time to be able to positively state that a particular small group of fibers came from a particular source, because there just aren't enough microscopic characteristics present in these fibers.
We cannot say, "Yes, these fibers came from this shirt to the exclusion of all other shirts."
Stombaugh was simply echoing long standing FBI policy not to speculate on probability. When testing any type of evidence, the policy is to find a match is positive, negative, or inconclusive. Fiber evidence is never going to be 100% conclusive nor does it need to be for it to have probative value. If the FBI did not think fiber evidence was probative, why would they even bother hiring experts in that field?
And yet, here you are disagreeing with Stombaugh and making up your own reality!
What did I say that contradicted Stombaugh?
The match is highly probative that the fibers came from Oswald's blanket.
And now we are back to the beginning again. There is nothing probative about fibers.
Tell that to Wayne Williams.
Any claim about a positive match in a court of law would be destroyed by a fibers expert like Stombaugh.
Tell that to Wayne Williams.
But even if you are right and the fibers did come from the blanket, there's still the matter of evidence photos showing the bag and the blanket next to eachother at the DPD evidence room and at the FBI lab. Even worse, in the night after the assassination, FBI agent Vincent Drain carried the evidence from Dallas to Washington in a paper bag! Now, if you want to speculate about fibers, just how big is the possibility of cross contamination?
I suppose cross contamination also caused Oswald's palm and fingerprint to end up on the bag.
