23-02-2016, 09:35 PM
As most of you know by now, I found records of an interview with:
Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, Inc. 2007
Interview of Former Special Agent of the FBI
Nat A. Pinkston (1940 1968)
By Brian R. Hollstein
On July 19, 2007
In this interview Mr. P claims to have intercepted Day while he had the rifle:
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.
Hollstein: Uh-huh.
Pinkston: Well, before I got that information, I went to the police
department where they had the personal effects of Oswald …
that they had taken away from him when they arrested him.
Hollstein: Uh-hmm.
Pinkston: And in his personal effects was identification in the name of A.
J. Hidell. The same Post Office Box.
except that's not what Lt. DAY has to say and I have yet to find corroborating evidence for Pinkston's story
Mr. McCLOY. There was never any doubt in your mind what the rifle was from the minute you saw it?
Mr. DAY. No, sir; It was stamped right on there, 6.5, and when en route to the office with Mr. Odum, the FBI agent who drove me in, he radioed it in, he radioed in what it was to the FBI over the air.
Suffice to say - Lt. DAY nor ODUM nor anyone else so far has mentioned Mr. PINKSTON... and this statement seems to mean that ODUM is the source of the rifle's Serial # to the FBI sometime between 2pm and 3pm
Mr. DAY. I took the gun at the time to the office and locked it up in a box in my office at Captain Fritz' direction.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mr. DAY. I went back to the School Book Depository and stayed there. It was around three that I got back, and I was in that building until about 6, directing the other officers as to what we needed in the way of photographs and some drawing, and so forth.
http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/pinkston.htm - [TABLE]
[TR]
[TD]Pinkston, Nat A.[/TD]
[TD]WC Testimony[/TD]
[TD]Employee, TSBD.[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Mr.. BALL. Now, you did not receive a letter from the Commission asking you to testify, did you?
Mr. PINKSTON. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. You were asked to come over here by Mr. Shanklin?
Mr. PINKSTON. Yes.
Mr. BALL. At my request, wasn't it?
Mr. PINKSTON. Well, I---
Mr. BALL. Anyway, you were asked to come over here by Mr. Shanklin and he advised you that your deposition would be taken at that time?
Mr. PINKSTON. Yes.
The only thing discussed is PINKSTON's interaction with the clipboard on Dec 2nd. That's it. One would think that he may be telling someone else's story, or making up his own for that 2007 interview...
But I'll keep looking
DJ
Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, Inc. 2007
Interview of Former Special Agent of the FBI
Nat A. Pinkston (1940 1968)
By Brian R. Hollstein
On July 19, 2007
In this interview Mr. P claims to have intercepted Day while he had the rifle:
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.
Hollstein: Uh-huh.
Pinkston: Well, before I got that information, I went to the police
department where they had the personal effects of Oswald …
that they had taken away from him when they arrested him.
Hollstein: Uh-hmm.
Pinkston: And in his personal effects was identification in the name of A.
J. Hidell. The same Post Office Box.
except that's not what Lt. DAY has to say and I have yet to find corroborating evidence for Pinkston's story
Mr. McCLOY. There was never any doubt in your mind what the rifle was from the minute you saw it?
Mr. DAY. No, sir; It was stamped right on there, 6.5, and when en route to the office with Mr. Odum, the FBI agent who drove me in, he radioed it in, he radioed in what it was to the FBI over the air.
Suffice to say - Lt. DAY nor ODUM nor anyone else so far has mentioned Mr. PINKSTON... and this statement seems to mean that ODUM is the source of the rifle's Serial # to the FBI sometime between 2pm and 3pm
Mr. DAY. I took the gun at the time to the office and locked it up in a box in my office at Captain Fritz' direction.
Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do?
Mr. DAY. I went back to the School Book Depository and stayed there. It was around three that I got back, and I was in that building until about 6, directing the other officers as to what we needed in the way of photographs and some drawing, and so forth.
http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/pinkston.htm - [TABLE]
[TR]
[TD]Pinkston, Nat A.[/TD]
[TD]WC Testimony[/TD]
[TD]Employee, TSBD.[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Mr.. BALL. Now, you did not receive a letter from the Commission asking you to testify, did you?
Mr. PINKSTON. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. You were asked to come over here by Mr. Shanklin?
Mr. PINKSTON. Yes.
Mr. BALL. At my request, wasn't it?
Mr. PINKSTON. Well, I---
Mr. BALL. Anyway, you were asked to come over here by Mr. Shanklin and he advised you that your deposition would be taken at that time?
Mr. PINKSTON. Yes.
The only thing discussed is PINKSTON's interaction with the clipboard on Dec 2nd. That's it. One would think that he may be telling someone else's story, or making up his own for that 2007 interview...
But I'll keep looking
DJ
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter