FBI Files Nov 22-26

I was following up on an article that Rex Bradford had penned down a few weeks ago at Mary Ferrel. In this excellent informative piece Rex lays out what has been released these past few years. By complete coincidence I came across a set of FBI files that really got my interest. And I ended up going through entire set for the past week.

Chad Nagle went to NARA and scanned a nice set of FBI Dallas field office files in. These are from the period Nov 22 up to and including Nov 26. Some of these documents have been seen before, but the majority of them have not. The ones that have been seen before are in a pristine condition. A little too clean for my liking as they are devoid of any annotations in some cases.

So after going through the whole set of a total of 785 docs. I can say that if the rifle is your subject of choice then you will be blesssed with a lot of docs concerning this. There are already about 50 docs in the first two days. There are also files with statements of people relaying other people’s statements about killing JFK or that it was agood thing he got shot.

Was there anyting there worthwhile for me then?  Plenty!

I shall share a few here, the rest will be aded to the second edition of Prayer Man – More Than A Fuzzy Picture.

This document  is one of the first records to have been created after JFK had been shot. It is written by Ray C Hall and it is very fragmented and filled with incorrect info. This is understandable since there were notifications coming in from all directions. What is very interesting is that Hall makes mention of the fact that Carl Day is of the opinion that there is a good print on the foregrip of the Italian rifle.

Then this document should have received a lot more publicity for what it contains. This is because it lists the evidence taken by Vincent Drain from the DPD taken to Washington. I’d like you to focus on the very last paragraph on page 3 of that document.

There is no mention of any palm print in that entire report. At a later date John Carl Day claimed that he had relayed this palm print ‘evidence’ info to Drain that evening while handing over the rifle and everything else, but Drain could not recall any of it. Nor did he believe him and he was of the opinion that the palm print was added after the evidence was sent back to Dallas. The relevant  documentation regarding this supports this strongly.

It gets better, in this document from Nov 23, after Vincent Drain has transported the Oswald evidence to Washington, and the evidence has been examined. The fibers on the rifle are mentioned and the ones that are found cannot be reconciled with the shirt Oswald was wearing. More importantly the photos taken of the fingerprints on the rifle are too fragmentary and indistinct to be of any value for identification purposes. 

The bag is menioned, where they state that they have found a palm and fingerprint of Lee Oswald. It is still a mystery how that bag was found, since it is nowhere to be seen in any of the evidence photographs. But the elephant in the room here is the phrase: No latent prints of value developed on the revolver, cartridge cases, clip, inner parts of rifle or unfired cartridge. Again there is no mention of any palm print on the rifle at all, and the above indicates a thorough examination of the alleged murder weapon had taken place. Drain is meant to be returning the evidence that very same evening by hand.

All this alongside with what I already posted three years ago shows that the evidence trail is clearly not helping the DPD and its case against Oswald. But this to me confirms it. The DPD had nothing on Oswald at that point in time. The Hidell ID was nowhere to be seen on Nov 22 and the rifle order was not found until 07:30 on the 23rd.

And they charged Lee Harvey Oswald with assassinating JFK after Drain had just left with the evidence?