11-04-2014, 01:39 PM
Book Depository superintendent Roy Truly is probably best known for working with Ruth Paine to get Harvey Oswald a job at the TSBD, as well as for his conflicting accounts of encountering Oswald with Marion Baker immediately after the assassination.
But to me what is the strangest tale involving him comes from J. Edgar Hoover, in the following letter to Rankin, part of CE 3131. Note the highlighted section of the reproduction below:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]5888[/ATTACH]For visitors unable to see the graphics here, the highlighted portion of this 9/18/64 letter from Hoover to Rankin says:
Page 3 of this same letter is also interesting:[ATTACH=CONFIG]5889[/ATTACH]The highlighted words from page 3 state:
These words beg a number questions. Why is Roy Truly telling J. Edgar Hoover which employees the FBI can and cannot fingerprint in a case involving the assassination of a sitting president? And why on earth would Hoover settle on a selection of employees who only "had occasion to handle the cartons in question?"
Another document in CE 3131 indicates that on 6/15/64 the FBI fingerprinted 15 former and current employees of the TSBD. On 9/2/54 a few other employees were fingerprinted.
So, here's the real issue. Within hours of the assassination, FBI agents were in the field confiscating elementary school records and the earliest employment records of Lee Harvey Oswald. Six months later, Hoover seems to be making a desultory effort to find out who might have actually handled the boxes by the so-called "sniper's nest" on the TSBD sixth floor. Why?
The real State Secret in the Kennedy assassination was the biography of "Lee Harvey Oswald."
But to me what is the strangest tale involving him comes from J. Edgar Hoover, in the following letter to Rankin, part of CE 3131. Note the highlighted section of the reproduction below:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]5888[/ATTACH]For visitors unable to see the graphics here, the highlighted portion of this 9/18/64 letter from Hoover to Rankin says:
Mr . Roy S . Truly, Warehouse Superintendent, strongly objected to the printing of all employees as he
felt it would seriously handicap the work of his firm; however, he did make available those employees who
would have had occasion to handle the cartons in question.
would have had occasion to handle the cartons in question.
Page 3 of this same letter is also interesting:[ATTACH=CONFIG]5889[/ATTACH]The highlighted words from page 3 state:
In view of the refusal of the above gentlemen to permit the further printing of employees, no further
action is being taken by this Bureau in this regard unless specifically advised to the contrary by you .
These words beg a number questions. Why is Roy Truly telling J. Edgar Hoover which employees the FBI can and cannot fingerprint in a case involving the assassination of a sitting president? And why on earth would Hoover settle on a selection of employees who only "had occasion to handle the cartons in question?"
Another document in CE 3131 indicates that on 6/15/64 the FBI fingerprinted 15 former and current employees of the TSBD. On 9/2/54 a few other employees were fingerprinted.
So, here's the real issue. Within hours of the assassination, FBI agents were in the field confiscating elementary school records and the earliest employment records of Lee Harvey Oswald. Six months later, Hoover seems to be making a desultory effort to find out who might have actually handled the boxes by the so-called "sniper's nest" on the TSBD sixth floor. Why?
The real State Secret in the Kennedy assassination was the biography of "Lee Harvey Oswald."