The Paines and the Minox Camera Charade

[David Josephs]

David:

Is that not puzzling?

How could they find the miniature Minox and miss the much larger Imperial Reflex camera?

How does one explain that?

It was not at the Paine's house? McCabe's story is simply an uncorroborated joke.... what do we know of McCabe?

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On March 14, 1964, Detectives JOHN P . ADAMCIK, RICHARD S .STOVALL, GUY P . ROSE, and HENRY M. MOORE of the Dallas Police Departmentadvised that they participated in a search of the PAINE residence, 2515 WestFifth Street, Irving, Texas, on November 22 and 23, 1963.

All four Of these individuals were exhibited a Federal Bureauof Investigation Laboratory Photograph No . D-146 of the Imperial Reflex cameraobtained from ROBERT LEE OSWALD on February 24, 1964. None of these officerscould recall ever having seen this camera and did not recall seeing it during a search of the garage at the PAINE residence . They allstated that if it had been discovered during the search, they would havebrought it in.

On March 23, 1964, Detectives STOVALL, ROSE and MOORE alladvised that during the search o£ the PAINE residence they recalled that therewere several boxes in the garage at the PAINE residence and that all boxes weresearched by one of the officers participating in the search . Each of themstated they could not specifically state which boxes they searched, butall stated they definitely did not see the Imperial Reflex camera pictured inFederal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory Photograph No . D-146, or any othercamera in the PAINE garage .

On March 24, 1964, Detective ADAMCIK also stated that therewere several boxes in the garage at the PAINE residence and that all boxes weresearched by either himself or one the of other officers . He could notspecifically state which boxes he searched, but stated he definitely did notsee the Imperial Reflex camera pictured in Federal Bureau of Investigation LaboratoryPhotograph No . D-146, or any other camera in the garage .