03-05-2018, 05:08 AM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:What David is saying about the REA shipment is correct.
This is a key point that the first generation of researchers largely missed. The delivery of firearms to Oswald is highly questionable.
To my knowledge, John Armstrong was the first person to delve into the lack of documentation for the Smith and Wesson 38 Victory modification. And its the complete lack of documentation for the transaction that leaves the whole issue of evidence modification with the handgun a distinct possibility.
Not only is there no evidence that Oswald ever picked up that revolver, but I have never been able to find any evidence that the FBI ever went to REA. If that is true it is really something.
If Joe still frequents this forum, maybe he can refer us to the part of his book where he deals with this issue.
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Jim, thanks for your excellent article and your kind comments on my research into the Tippit case for iNTO THE NIGHTMARE.
On pp. 406-7 I discuss Armstrong's thorough demonstration that there is no proof that Oswald owned the pistol entered into evidence. I go into
the problems with the physical evidence in the Tippit case in detail on pp. 252-59, including the key fact that the ballistics evidence does not implicate
Oswald but tends to exonerate him (even if it were his pistol, which was not proven). I also discuss the pistol (or the automatic) elsewhere in the book, e.g., pp. 115, 231, 447, 481.