15-03-2016, 07:47 PM
I am most assuredly not challenging Ms. Mellon yet the big warning sign to me is the FBI provided print used to ID the match in the first place.
The first thing the examiner did was to say that something was missing. He wanted a new photograph of the unidentified print, one made by the FBI. This photograph exists in the National Archives and anyone can obtain one. When the FBI's photograph came, it was of a very high quality, according to the examiner.
He compared that photograph with two other sets of Mac Wallace's prints. Those two sets matched each other, but neither matched the print that had been lifted at the Texas School Book Depository at the time of the Kennedy assassination. - See more at: http://joanmellen.com/wordpress/2014/04/...M9YH4.dpuf
So the entire case for debunking this fingerprint ID is the Print sent by the FBI which is only compared to the two sets of Wallace's prints...
Do we know if they compared it to the print Darby said did match? or only that the FBI print did not match Wallace's...
How do we know the FBI print is the same as the unidentified print?
As I read more about it - the issue is not whether it is Mac's or not, but whether it was planted at some point to ensure LBJ silence due to their known relationship.
Two men found they matched. One recanted once he learned it was JFK's assassination they were talking about.
Learning that the print which undermines all this confusion was finally supplied by the FBI remains very suspect...
After working on the identifications, Darby pronounced that he had a match. I think by the time he was done, he had 34 points of match. J then decided to get a second opinion, and found a print examiner named Harold Hofmeister, who verified Darby's identification. Shortly thereafter, Hofmeister called back and returned the check for $500, which had been issued to him by Barr McClellan. Hofmeister had changed his mind. He didn't like the fact that he was using Xeroxes. He repudiated his own statement and said that he could not verify that it was a match. No matter, the Darby identification, accompanied by an affidavit readily available on the internet, was announced as a fait accompli. The Austin police sent this material to the FBI, and after, I believe 18 months, the FBI lab replied that it was not a match. But who believes THEM, right? The FBI didn't provide any supporting material and that was pronounced disrespectful to Nathan Darby since it was a protocol of the trade when you go against an expert's conclusions to present evidence for your decision. - See more at: http://joanmellen.com/wordpress/2014/04/...M9YH4.dpuf
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3.) Darby's match was a BLIND match. Another Texas-based fingerprint expert, E.H. Hoffmeister, when presented with the two prints that had been given to Darby, concluded that they were made by the same person. When he was told that the Kennedy assassination was involved, he backed off the identification. The experts who concluded that the match was in error all knew the consequences of a positive match. In a perfect world this would not be important. In this world, unfortunately, even forensic judgements made by experienced scientists can be colored by many factors. The only two BLIND (i.e. scientifically proper) submissions of the latent print from the book carton and the inked Wallace print resulted in a match.
The first thing the examiner did was to say that something was missing. He wanted a new photograph of the unidentified print, one made by the FBI. This photograph exists in the National Archives and anyone can obtain one. When the FBI's photograph came, it was of a very high quality, according to the examiner.
He compared that photograph with two other sets of Mac Wallace's prints. Those two sets matched each other, but neither matched the print that had been lifted at the Texas School Book Depository at the time of the Kennedy assassination. - See more at: http://joanmellen.com/wordpress/2014/04/...M9YH4.dpuf
So the entire case for debunking this fingerprint ID is the Print sent by the FBI which is only compared to the two sets of Wallace's prints...
Do we know if they compared it to the print Darby said did match? or only that the FBI print did not match Wallace's...
How do we know the FBI print is the same as the unidentified print?
As I read more about it - the issue is not whether it is Mac's or not, but whether it was planted at some point to ensure LBJ silence due to their known relationship.
Two men found they matched. One recanted once he learned it was JFK's assassination they were talking about.
Learning that the print which undermines all this confusion was finally supplied by the FBI remains very suspect...
After working on the identifications, Darby pronounced that he had a match. I think by the time he was done, he had 34 points of match. J then decided to get a second opinion, and found a print examiner named Harold Hofmeister, who verified Darby's identification. Shortly thereafter, Hofmeister called back and returned the check for $500, which had been issued to him by Barr McClellan. Hofmeister had changed his mind. He didn't like the fact that he was using Xeroxes. He repudiated his own statement and said that he could not verify that it was a match. No matter, the Darby identification, accompanied by an affidavit readily available on the internet, was announced as a fait accompli. The Austin police sent this material to the FBI, and after, I believe 18 months, the FBI lab replied that it was not a match. But who believes THEM, right? The FBI didn't provide any supporting material and that was pronounced disrespectful to Nathan Darby since it was a protocol of the trade when you go against an expert's conclusions to present evidence for your decision. - See more at: http://joanmellen.com/wordpress/2014/04/...M9YH4.dpuf
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index....topic=4966
3.) Darby's match was a BLIND match. Another Texas-based fingerprint expert, E.H. Hoffmeister, when presented with the two prints that had been given to Darby, concluded that they were made by the same person. When he was told that the Kennedy assassination was involved, he backed off the identification. The experts who concluded that the match was in error all knew the consequences of a positive match. In a perfect world this would not be important. In this world, unfortunately, even forensic judgements made by experienced scientists can be colored by many factors. The only two BLIND (i.e. scientifically proper) submissions of the latent print from the book carton and the inked Wallace print resulted in a match.
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