Interesting stuff...but, in reality, there were some FIVE Oswald wallets discovered on that day... obviously pointing to serious "monkey business" by police and/or the "intelligence community." I don't know about you, but most people carry one wallet (and maybe have one more at home--unused-that was a birthday or Christmas present). Of course, the next obvious problem was the fact of Oswald's Selective Service Card bearing a photograph, when they never have. This case contained so much in the way of fraud and the incidence of truly "weird shit," that...as my dad used to say, "it ain't funny!!"
This investigation was 180 degrees removed from the usual professional "crime scene investi-gation," we often see reflected today in television programs. The approach was fundamentally different, the evidence was managed, not simply collected, there was nothing in the way of "chain of custody" of that evidence, suspects were released without proper questioning and follow-up, and there was plenty of coercion "from above" to not only quickly dispose of the case, but to arrive at a certain predetermined conclusion. Examine the beginning pages of the Warren Report. This is not an objective, comprehensive and honest investigation, but a definitely prejudicial "brief for the prosecution."
But, back to the evidence. There were concocted "backyard photos," questionable testimony by people like Helen Markham and Howard Brennan (countered by the testimony of more reliable witnesses, such as Arnold Rowland), virtually all photographic evidence gone missing, despoiled or altered (One could cry over the Beverly Oliver film footage--taken no more than a few yards away and to the left of the presidential limousine--having been confiscated, and never again come to light!)...the coercing of witnesses and asking “leading questions” during questioning…the whole gamut of trumped up charges and evidence management, which screams corruption and criminality, by both local police and federal agencies....and, of course...the selection of a perpetrator--and an official narrative PRIOR to the commission of the crime in Dealey Plaza—a “frame-up”--in place of the presumption of innocence and the dispassionate collection of evidence, toward forming a picture of the crime (which is a text-book example of "obstruction of justice"...and, or course, conspiracy!). What occurred was a brazen ambush of an American president in the Texas midday sun, and an equally brazen subsequent cover-up of that crime, with LBJ calling the Dallas police and demanding of them, "You have your man!"..and Nicholas Katzenbach's letter to Bill Moyers emphasizing on the administration's need to quickly convince the American public of the "one crazed gunman" narrative.
Of course, there is also the reality of the Warren Commission's conclusions not being unanimous. Three members, Russell, Cooper and Boggs dissented from those conclusions, and only agreed to sign the report upon being assured that their dissent would be noted in the published report. Never happened.
Incidentally, while Mr. Jarmon--one of three Black workers in the TSBD--later testified to having heard shots and dropping rifle shells coming from the sixth floor--above him--during his INITIAL testimony, he insisted that the gun-shots sounded like they'd come from below the below and outside the building...and he'd heard NOTHING from the floor above him, which suggests coercion during questioning, which led to a change in his testimony. And MANY witnesses ran toward the "grassy knoll," or reported that they thought the shots had come from the knoll or down near the overpass.
The investigation of the murder of President Kennedy was TRULY is a mess...and a colossal scandal. Arguably, the investigation was by the same forces which committed the crime. The entire affair was horrendous, very fishy...and a scandalous business.
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