06-12-2012, 04:09 AM
Phil Dragoo Wrote:Adele
I enjoyed very much Barry Krusch, Impossible: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald, Part One.
What he does with the three, no, two, no, three shells, and their trip to DC with the FBI while remaining in Dallas with the police, while being initialled and not initialled, photographed, but after they were in someone's pocket, is an exhausting, necessary and droll trip into the vast labyrith of lies which is the Commission's opus.
Regarding the paraffin test on Lee's cheek being negative per the Dallas Police, it was confirmed negative by the AEC's Oak Ridge Lab, which also tested seven men who actually fired the Mannlicher Carcano, all seven testing positive.
The government "expert" Cunningham claimed the weapon's assembly was "too tight" to leave GSR, but this was obviously destroyed by the testing of the known shooters as positives.
Gerald D. McKnight, Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why, is clear on this and many other points which are elements of systematic obstruction of justice.
Breach of Trust p 422 note 83
Assassination researcher Harold Weisberg sued both the FBI and the AEC to gain disclosure of the results of the December-January Oak Ridge National Laboratory tests on the paraffin casts. He made no headway with the FBI, but the AEC's successor, the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), anxious to avoid litigation, turned over the results to Weisberg in July 1981. The ERDA file can be found at the Weisberg Archive. The Commission turned to FBI firearms expert Cortlandt Cunningham, whose testimony was buried in Appendix X of the Warren Report under the rubric "Expert Testimony" to explain why Oswald's negative paraffin test on his right cheek was of no evidentiary value. Ignoring the results of the FBI's own authorized AEC tests on the rifle as well as Dr. Guinn's report to Gallagher, Cunningham testified that the chamber of the Mannlicher-Carcano was so tightly sealed that it prevented any blowback. It was Cunningham's professional opinion that given the construction of the weapon, "personally" he would not expect to find "any residues on a person's right cheek after firing" it. See WCR, 561
Phil,
Thank you for that clear confirmation of the nitrate test on Oswald. It seems incredible that factual evidence of that solid a nature was so buried, hidden, and ignored that the beliefs in Oswald's guilt in being the shooter could continue to be perpetuated by so many for 49 years.
Adele