FBI SA Nat Allan Pinkston says he found that Kleins sold C2766

[David Josephs]

I had not heard this name in my work on the Rifle. He neglects to mention HL Greene in Dallas as a MC supplier and goes straight to Titche-Goettinger who tells them that if it wasn't them, in Dallas, it was Klein Sporting Goods:

"But, if we (T-G) didn't sell it, it almost had to come from Klein Sporting Goods Store in Chicago."


Pinkston: We had the case solved before the day was over.


Any help on Mr. Pinkston?
Thanks
DJ

http://www.nleomf.org/assets/pdfs/nlem/o...erview.pdf

Pinkston: So I was the first Agent there. And I got up to the sixth floor
where they were searching and I ran into Carl Day, who I knew
quite well, who was head of the Identification Division at the
Police Department.

Hollstein: Uh-huh. Now this was at the Book Repository?
Pinkston: Yes. And he was holding a rifle in his hands. He told me that
they'd just found the rifle and that they thought it was the one
used in the assassination. So I took a complete description of
the gun, from the gun, while he was holding it and I started out
to try and identify the gun.

Well, I had an informant who was a pawn broker and a
licensed gun dealer, very well acquainted with firearms, he'd
been in business a long time. And I went to him and described
the gun to him and he said, "Well, there were a lot of those
guns sold and they were sold in Dallas by Titche-Goettinger
Company." Which was a large department store and it had a
sporting goods department.

So, I went to them and they had
excellent records. They went through them and they said, "We
have no record on the gun of that serial number. But, if we
didn't sell it, it almost had to come from Klein Sporting Goods
Store in Chicago." And he gave me the number of Klein's …
and the address. So I went back to the office and we sent a
teletype to Chicago to check at Klein's Sporting Goods. Well,
by this time of the day, they had closed up for the weekend.
So, one of the Agents there went out and picked up the
manager of the store and took him back to the store, and in
about fifteen minutes they had a record that this gun. This
particular rifle had been sold by Klein Sporting Goods Store to
A. J. Hidell, to a Post Office Box in Dallas.