Howdy All,
The evidence that Oswald fired three times from the sixth floor is not "ample," in fact is nonexistent.
First, I have been unable to find anywhere in the record where the Oswald rifle was checked to see if it had been fired recently. A simple sniff test would have done the job. Next, the palm print belatedly discovered on the underside of the disassembled barrel was not there when examined by the FBI lab on Saturday, Nov. 23. It only became known as FBI agents Harrison and Drain placed Oswald's dead hand on the gun at Miller Funeral Home on Monday, Nov. 25, the day after the rifle was returned to Dallas. Next, the original DPD Evidence Sheet (which I obtained in 1992) showed only two casings were recovered at the TSBD, although when published by the Warren Commission this number had been changed to "3". Note only two of the spent 6.5 mm spent shell cases exhibited a small dent on the cartridge shoulder which the FBI said was a particularity of the Oswald Rifle. The third empty shell casing exhibited by the Warren Commission showed no such dent indicating it had never been chambered in the Oswald carbine. Then we have the paraffin test which, although at the time was said to be positive, actually showed only traces of nitrates on Oswald's hand but no gunpowder and neither gun powder nor nitrates on his face, good evidence he had not fired that loose-bolt rifle. Even Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry as late as 1969 told the Dallas Morning News, "We don't have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle and never did. Nobody's yet been able to put him in that building with a gun in his hand."
First, I have been unable to find anywhere in the record where the Oswald rifle was checked to see if it had been fired recently. A simple sniff test would have done the job. Next, the palm print belatedly discovered on the underside of the disassembled barrel was not there when examined by the FBI lab on Saturday, Nov. 23. It only became known as FBI agents Harrison and Drain placed Oswald's dead hand on the gun at Miller Funeral Home on Monday, Nov. 25, the day after the rifle was returned to Dallas. Next, the original DPD Evidence Sheet (which I obtained in 1992) showed only two casings were recovered at the TSBD, although when published by the Warren Commission this number had been changed to "3". Note only two of the spent 6.5 mm spent shell cases exhibited a small dent on the cartridge shoulder which the FBI said was a particularity of the Oswald Rifle. The third empty shell casing exhibited by the Warren Commission showed no such dent indicating it had never been chambered in the Oswald carbine. Then we have the paraffin test which, although at the time was said to be positive, actually showed only traces of nitrates on Oswald's hand but no gunpowder and neither gun powder nor nitrates on his face, good evidence he had not fired that loose-bolt rifle. Even Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry as late as 1969 told the Dallas Morning News, "We don't have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle and never did. Nobody's yet been able to put him in that building with a gun in his hand."
Jim Marrs
Notice that Jim mentioned the sniff test to see if the rifle was fired. Repeat: Jim Marrs mentioned the sniff test, which I have written about in the recent past.
And it came up this weekend too. We had visitors who had seen and heard my video of the song Laura, and they wanted to see the movie, which I have, so we watched it. And in it, the detective, played by Dana Andrews, inspects a shotgun to see if it had been recently fired, and he both sniffed it and opened it and looked down the barrel to see if it was dirty; it was. And the guy who owned the rifle said he had shot some rabbits with it.
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