From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Re: Marina Oswald gets into the act
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 05:05:05 GMT

> & >>>   Tom Warner 
>> & >>>> Bruce Schuck (me)

>>>To me, the fact that the palmprint was lifted where it was lifted even
>>>though no other prints could be found is just further evidence that Oswald
>>>never fired the rifle. Someone fired the rifle, but their prints were not
>>>left behind.

>>It's not the location of the print that bothers me. Its the timing.

>>Lt Day of the Dallas Police checked the rifle for prints. He found
>>several partial and smudged prints on the rifle. He photographed and
>>covered each one with cellophane for protection.

>Are these photographs extant?

Don't know.

>Were the prints *completely* unreadable or what? How partial is partial?

Well....they didn't match Oswald's. Considering all the cops who
handled the gun I would assume some are from the Dallas Police.

>>The rifle was then sent to the FBI.

>>The FBI found *no* palmprint matching Oswalds.

>>The rifle was sent back to Dallas.

>>It was only after getting the rifle back that the Dallas Police
>>announced they had *lifted* a print off the barrel [under the stock]

>>Oswald was dead by then, and his hands could have been used to place
>>the palmprint on the rifle. Thats why that scene was in JFK.

>It's also why alot of people think Stone is goofy.

My feeling is this....the Dallas Police were in a big hurry to nail
Oswlad for Tippit's murder [and JFK's]. If Oswalds prints were found
on the rifle it would have been announced immediately.

>>If Day had found the print on the 22nd, why wasn't it photographed and
>>protected by cellophane like the other possible prints?

>Because it wasn't found on the 22nd, because it wasn't disassembled?

Nope. Day said he found the prints on the 22nd. When ordered to hand
over the rifle to the FBI, he said he was in such a hurry that he
'forgot' to photograph the print or to protect it with cellophane.

The trouble with that story is that the WR says Day had the rifle
within minutes of it being discovered. A paragraph later the WR says
the rifle was released to the FBI at 11:45 *pm* on the 22nd. 
[pg 117 - paperback WR]

So that means the Dallas Police had the rifle for at least 10 hours.
Surely in 10 hours the palmprint of the assassin of the President of
the USA could have been protected and/or photographed!

To further insult our intelligence, the discovery of the print was
announced on the evening of the 24th, after Oswald was dead, and after
the rifle had been returned by the FBI.

Do they really want us to believe such a discovery would have been
kept secret for 48 hours? Ha!

Do you really think Stone is so 'goofy' after hearing of the bizarre
sequence of events leading up to the 'discovery' of the palmprint?

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schuck@sfu.ca                                           Vote No on October 26th
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