02-04-2014, 09:48 PM
Albert Doyle Wrote:That doesn't line up with the Commission's meticulous pursuit of other trivial evidence. Philben was right there in town available for the askin'.
The Commission sure missed some opportunities for askin' questions. Here's two of my favorites:
1. Why didn't they try to find out why the infamous money order that supposedly paid for the alleged murder weapon was never deposited into a bank, or cashed, or processed by anyone other than the Klein's Sporting Goods? Why didn't they ask the US Postal Department to conduct "payment research" on the money order. There is no cost for this service, but the results may have been a bit difficult for the WC to explain.
2. Faced with all those witnesses who said Oswald did--and didn't--drive a car, why didn't someone on the Commission simply call the Texas Department of Public Safety and ask if Oswald had a driver's license? Guess none of he lawyers could find a phone number.
The real reason for question 2, of course, is that the Commissioners knew they were tip-toeing through a minefield of potentially explosive facts about the biography of "Lee Harvey Oswald," which was the real State Secret they were trying to protect. After all, John Heart Ely was tasked with writing a report about the background of "Lee Harvey Oswald" and "Marguerite." On April 10, 1964, WC staff attorney Albert Jenner wrote to WC general counsel Rankin stating, "there are details in Mr. Ely's memoranda which will require MATERIAL ALTERATION and, in some instances, OMISSION." (my emphasis)