JFK Assassination Forum

How about Oswald's palm print on the underside of the barrel. That could only have been placed there with the rifle disassembled.

The we have the fibers in the bag that matched the blanket Oswald stored his rifle in when it was in Paine's garage.

That ties the rifle to the bag and the bag could only hold a disassembled rifle without sticking out the top of the bag.

     JOHN - Yes, I am aware of DPD Motorcycle Cops that elect to NOT wear BOTH GLOVES. A cop choosing not to wear both gloves, is very different than a cop wearing both gloves and then taking 1 Glove off for an extended period of time. I still find it difficult to believe that a DPD Cop standing near the Triple Underpass would remove 1 of his gloves, and then carry that glove from Elm St into the train yard and then all the way over the the TSBD Houston St dock. Why wouldn't the cop just put the removed glove back on in the face of an active shooter being at large?

Didn’t Linnie May Randle say she saw Oswald gripping the package at the TOP as he was carrying it? So if it’s an 8 lbs rifle, that is a forceful grip  which should have left a whole palm print  at the TOP of the bag.

Instead there only a palm print in the middle of the bag. Maybe it could be argued that if there was a print at the top of bag that it evaporated because of  longer time of 3 hours from when Oswald had carried the bag into the adjacent loading dock building at 8:30 am and left it somewhere hidden until about 11:45 when the workers on 6th floor took the lunchbreak.

So then the middle of the bag print would be explained by:

A. Oswald,  incredibly stupid ( or doesn’t care?)  transported  the rifle still in the bag with his bare hands to the 6th floor SE window at 12:23 ( just after Bonnie Ray Williams had left the 6th floor)  and  Oswald had only about 2minutes to arrange the box on the window ledge just before 12:25 when Bronson film starts. So hastily conceived plan= lots of stupid mistakes.

Note here: it is not likely that  Oswald could have placed the box in the window ledge earlier than 12:23 because Bonnie Ray Williams was on the 6th floor from about 12:05-12:23 and workers were on the 6th floor from 9:00-11:45am. ( also Arnold Rowland saw a black man  in the SE window at 12:15 which  most probably was BR Williams.)

B. Oswald was stupid/ doesn’t care, so he touches the bag, the  rifle and the boxes with bare hands rather than wearing  gloves.

C: Oswald stupid/ careless, left the bag which he had just touched with his bare hands at the SN and even took time to fold it back up?
 
IDK what Oswald’s  state of mind was after he was rejected by Marina on Tuesday night but if he was manic depressive or a bipolar personality it’s possible that a combination of anger and hopelessness could explain really stupid mistakes in handling rifle, bag and boxes with bare hands.

And if Oswald was a schizophrenic, there’s the possibility that A. Hidell was the alternate more agitated Oswald. It may be time to dig up the body and see if modern science can determine anything.

It seems really stupid to disassemble a rifle to lessen the length by only 2 inches.

I still find it difficult to believe that a DPD Cop standing near the Triple Underpass would remove 1 of his gloves, and then carry that glove from Elm St into the train yard and then all the way over the the TSBD Houston St dock. Why wouldn't the cop just put the removed glove back on in the face of an active shooter being at large?