Not surprisingly, when a PSE polygraph analysis was done on a recording of Officer Bentley repeating his belated claim that he found a Hidell ID card in Oswald's wallet on the way to the police station, the PSE showed hard stress, a clear indication he was lying.

As mentioned, Bentley said nothing about finding any Hidell ID card on Oswald in his 12/3/1963 report to Chief Curry:

On the way to the city hall I removed the suspect's wallet and obtained his name. He made several remarks en route to the city hall about police brutality and denied shooting anybody. . . . I turned his identification over to Lieutenant Baker. I then went to Captain Westbrook's office to make a report of this arrest. (CE 2003, p. 78)

Bentley was interviewed at around 3:30 PM on WFAA-TV, barely two hours after Oswald's arrest. He told the gathered reporters that he removed Oswald's wallet from his rear pocket and found identification in the wallet for "Lee Harvey Oswald." He said nothing about any other name or any Hidell ID card.

Another police officer who rode in the car with Oswald on the way to the police station was Sgt. Gerald Hill. In his description of the arrest and transfer of Oswald to the police station on NBC TV on 11/22/1963, just a few hours after the event, Hill specified that they identified Oswald as "Lee H. Oswald" after removing his wallet ("billfold"):

Hill: The only way we found out what his name was was to remove his billfold and check it ourselves; he wouldn't even tell us what his name was. . . .

Question: What was the name on the billfold?

Hill: Lee H. Oswald. O-S-W-A-L-D. (CE 2160) 

Not a word about any other name or any Hidell ID card.

The same silence about finding any Hidell ID card on Oswald on the way to the police station is seen in the first reports submitted by Officers Bob Carroll and C.T. Walker, both of whom rode in the police car with with Bentley and Hill when Oswald was taken to the police station (CE 2003, pp. 81-82, 91, and 100-101).

Significantly, Justice of the Peace David Johnston seemed to know nothing about Oswald using the Hidell alias or about the finding of a Hidell ID card for at least 24 hours after Oswald was arrested. Johnston issued the search warrant for the search of Oswald's boarding house, spent the next 12 hours "in conference" with police and prosecutors, and presided over two of Oswald's arraignment hearings. In his handwritten report (Johnston Exhibit No. 1), after listing Oswald's name and other information, Johnston wrote that Oswald used the alias "O.H. Lee": "Alias—0.H. Lee." Not a word about a Hidell alias or a Hidell ID card.

Similarly, FBI Agents James Bookhout and James Hosty said nothing about the use of the Hidell alias or the finding of a Hidell ID card in their reports on the Friday interrogation sessions of Oswald (Warren Report, pp. 612-613, 619-620). Hosty and Bookout mentioned that Oswald was asked about the O.H. Lee alias, but said nothing about his being asked about any other alias. Bookhout mentioned the Hidell ID card for the first time in his report on the Saturday interrogation session (Warren Report, p. 623).

Against the clear weight of the contemporaneous evidence that authorities knew nothing about a Hidell ID card until Saturday afternoon, i.e., the afternoon of 11/23/1963, WC apologists cite FBI agent Manning Clements' report, dated 11/23/1963, in which Manning claimed he interrogated Oswald on Friday night and found a Hidell ID card in Oswald's wallet.

Say what?! How could this be? Bentley said he took Oswald's wallet from him during the car ride to the police station, and that he gave the Oswald ID to Lt. Baker when they arrived at the station. Let's read Bentley's 12/3/1963 report again: 

On the way to the city hall I removed the suspect's wallet and obtained his name. He made several remarks en route to the city hall about police brutality and denied shooting anybody. . . . I turned his identification over to Lieutenant Baker. I then went to Captain Westbrook's office to make a report of this arrest. (CE 2003, p. 78)

Moreover, DPD detective Richard Sims said he searched Oswald at 4:05 PM on Friday and did not find a wallet or any ID cards (7 H 180). Well, of course not, because Oswald's wallet and its contents, including his ID card, had already been confiscated and booked into evidence:

Mr. STERN. Now, the search in which you participated of Oswald at 4:05 on Friday, just before the first showup [police lineup] -- you have told us that either you or Mr. Boyd found five live rounds of .38 caliber pistol shells, and a bus transfer slip, and an identification bracelet, according to your memorandum -- Oswald took his ring off and gave it to you?

Mr. SIMS. That’s right.

Mr. STERN. Do you recall that?

Mr. SIMS. Yes, sir.

Mr. STERN. Do you remember anything else that was found on Oswald at that time?

Mr. SIMS. No, sir; I don’t remember anything else.

Mr. STERN. A wallet or identification card?

Mr. SIMS. No, sir; that had been taken off of him (7 H 180). 

Now, leaving aside the preposterous notion that the previous searches of Oswald had somehow "missed" five bullets and a bus transfer slip, we see that by 4:05 PM on Friday Oswald of course no longer had his wallet, which is why Sims found no wallet or ID on him when he searched him. So FBI agent Clements was obviously lying when he said he found a Hidell ID card on Oswald on Friday night, hours after Sims had searched Oswald and hours after Oswald's wallet and its contents had already been confiscated.

Months after Oswald's arrest, some police officers claimed that a Hidell ID card was found in Oswald's wallet on the way to the police station and that the Hidell ID was seen at the station after Oswald arrived, while some federal agents claimed that they saw a Hidell ID card on Friday after Oswald was arrested and that they questioned him about his Hidell alias that afternoon or evening. But the contemporaneous record, with the sole exception of FBI agent Clements' fraudulent report, shows that authorities seemed to know nothing about the Hidell alias or the Hidell ID card until some 24 hours after Oswald's arrest, i.e., only after the FBI "discovered" that the supposed murder weapon had been ordered under the name "A. Hidell."

What does any of this have to do with the JFKA?

It isn't deceptive to people with common sense. I guess that leaves you out.

No whole bullet was found in the limo. Only bullet fragments. It doesn't require Sherlock Holmes to figure out that fragmented bullet was the one that struck JFK in the head. The two largest fragments had sufficient size and markings to be positively matched to the rifle found in the TSBD. Of course that means nothing to you, but again, people with common sense can figure out how significant that is.

This is just the kind of moronic word game internet trolls are fond of playing. Anybody who isn't anal can understand that fragmented bullet and bullet fragments mean the same thing. Again, that leaves you out. I used the term fragmented bullet to describe the fragments found in the limo and you chose the term misshapen bullet. The term I used is far more accurate. It refers to a bullet that was not in one piece. Your terminology implies what was found in the limo was still in one piece. It most certainly was not and you know it. Just more of your silly word games.

As I hope is obvious, I meant to type "No SS agent claimed to find a bullet in the limo." I have fixed the typo in the reply.

I see that Corbett is still peddling his nonsensical claim that the FBI memo is referring to the two relatively small bullet fragments that were found in the limo when it was searched while in the White House garage. I see Corbett is also still trying to mislead readers with his deceptive misuse of the term "fragmented bullet":

This is another example of Corbett's habit of repeating claims that he knows are false. I have proven to him several times that the Secret Service did not find a "fragmented bullet" in the limo but only two fragments, part of a nose and part of a tail, that constituted less than half the mass of a standard rifle bullet. Moreover, those two fragments were found at the opposite end of the limo from where Mills and Martinell found the misshapen bullet that they handed over to Dr. Young at the autopsy.

The two bullet fragments that the Secret Service claimed were found in the limo are CE 567 and CE 569. CE 567 is part of the nose of a bullet and weighs only 41.5 grains, and CE 569 is part of the tail of a bullet and weighs only 21 grains, for a combined weight of 62.5 grains, which is less than half the weight of the average rifle bullet. Standard rifle bullets weigh between 150 and 180 grains; a WCC 6.5 mm FMJ bullet weighs 160.8 grains. It is simply dishonest and misleading to refer to those two fragments as a "fragmented bullet."

It makes no sense to claim that the FBI memo refers to those two relatively small fragments. No rational person would describe those fragments as a "bullet" when they amounted to less than half the mass of a rifle bullet. I should add that no subsequent FBI or SS memo claimed that those two fragments were the "bullet" mentioned in the 11/22/1963 FBI memo.

The most logical reading of the FBI memo is that it is referring to the misshapen bullet that Chiefs Mills and Martinell found in the limo when they searched it in the White House garage while looking for skull fragments.