18-01-2018, 07:40 PM
First, appreciate the keen insights in your well written piece, Mr. Josephs, two thumbs up oriented research by far.
When the smoke finally clears, suffice it to say those charged with securing a proper chain of custody handled the evidence like it was a hot potato. That said, as I continue to delve further in the reading myself later this evening, I hope the OP, Mr. Reech, may find some answers to his questions.
On another note, from the esteemed/late Mr. Garrison (Jim) ---->
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The Commission called as its witness FBI ballistics expert Cortlandt Cunningham, and he testified, after an examination of the bullets taken from Tippit's body, that it was impossible to determine whether or not these bullets had been fired from Oswald's gun.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Yet, on the basis of this expert testimony, the Warren Commission concluded with a straight face that the bullets were fired not only from Oswald's gun but "to the exclusion of all other weapons." They simply chose to ignore the fact that revolvers don't eject cartridges and that the cartridges left so conveniently on the street didn't match the bullets in Tippit's body.
*source-Mr. Garrison's Playboy Interview (1967)[/FONT]
When the smoke finally clears, suffice it to say those charged with securing a proper chain of custody handled the evidence like it was a hot potato. That said, as I continue to delve further in the reading myself later this evening, I hope the OP, Mr. Reech, may find some answers to his questions.
On another note, from the esteemed/late Mr. Garrison (Jim) ---->
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The Commission called as its witness FBI ballistics expert Cortlandt Cunningham, and he testified, after an examination of the bullets taken from Tippit's body, that it was impossible to determine whether or not these bullets had been fired from Oswald's gun.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]Yet, on the basis of this expert testimony, the Warren Commission concluded with a straight face that the bullets were fired not only from Oswald's gun but "to the exclusion of all other weapons." They simply chose to ignore the fact that revolvers don't eject cartridges and that the cartridges left so conveniently on the street didn't match the bullets in Tippit's body.
*source-Mr. Garrison's Playboy Interview (1967)[/FONT]