Planted Evidence?
When I gave a talk on the Kennedy assassination at my local public library at the end of this past November, a gentleman who attended asked me about evidence related to the rifle. Specifically, as I recall, it was about the paper bags found at the Post Office similar to the paper bag in which Oswald was supposed to have carried his rifle to the TSBD on the the morning of the assassination. At the time, all I could do was shrug. But I did realize that this was evidence I needed to take a closer look at.
There are numerous anomalies surrounding the supposed trail of evidence leading to Oswald. The website http://harveyandlee.net/Guns/Guns.html describes some of them. The original records (microfilm) of the rifle's purchase _from Klein's Sporting Goods, which went into FBI custody in the early morning hours after the assassination, disappeared. The money order used to purchase the rifle was in the wrong amount for a rifle plus scope. The serial number on the money order was too high for it to have been issued when it was supposedly issued. The date of the bank deposit slip for when the money order was supposed to have been deposited was more than a month prior to the date stamped on the money order itself (although the website http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2012/02/jfk-assassination-arguments-part-149.html suggests that this was a simple clerical mistake). There was no financial institution marking on the money order to indicate that it had ever been cashed. The order for the rifle was sent, received, processed, and shipped within 24 hours (the DVP website suggests that Oswald sent his order via air-mail). And other anomalies.
Yet we know Oswald owned a rifle. Marina saw it. The deMohrenshildt's saw it. Despite the chin anomaly on the backyard photographs, Marina asserted that she took the pictures of Oswald holding it.
However, the anomalies tracing the rifle's chain of evidence suggest to me that much of the evidence trail has been "planted," in order to convince the American public that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. However, I don't necessarily think the purpose was to cover up a politically deep-rooted conspiracy to murder Kennedy. I think the purpose was to bolster public perception of an otherwise weak case against Oswald, who was already dead when most of the cover up was instigated. The fact that anomalies were found is indicative of shoddy work. A deep-rooted, elaborate, pre-planned conspiracy to murder Kennedy would have ensured that a better job was done of planting evidence. I think the shoddiness of the evidence trail indicates that it was created after the fact, not before.
When I gave a talk on the Kennedy assassination at my local public library at the end of this past November, a gentleman who attended asked me about evidence related to the rifle. Specifically, as I recall, it was about the paper bags found at the Post Office similar to the paper bag in which Oswald was supposed to have carried his rifle to the TSBD on the the morning of the assassination. At the time, all I could do was shrug. But I did realize that this was evidence I needed to take a closer look at.
There are numerous anomalies surrounding the supposed trail of evidence leading to Oswald. The website http://harveyandlee.net/Guns/Guns.html describes some of them. The original records (microfilm) of the rifle's purchase _from Klein's Sporting Goods, which went into FBI custody in the early morning hours after the assassination, disappeared. The money order used to purchase the rifle was in the wrong amount for a rifle plus scope. The serial number on the money order was too high for it to have been issued when it was supposedly issued. The date of the bank deposit slip for when the money order was supposed to have been deposited was more than a month prior to the date stamped on the money order itself (although the website http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2012/02/jfk-assassination-arguments-part-149.html suggests that this was a simple clerical mistake). There was no financial institution marking on the money order to indicate that it had ever been cashed. The order for the rifle was sent, received, processed, and shipped within 24 hours (the DVP website suggests that Oswald sent his order via air-mail). And other anomalies.
Yet we know Oswald owned a rifle. Marina saw it. The deMohrenshildt's saw it. Despite the chin anomaly on the backyard photographs, Marina asserted that she took the pictures of Oswald holding it.
However, the anomalies tracing the rifle's chain of evidence suggest to me that much of the evidence trail has been "planted," in order to convince the American public that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. However, I don't necessarily think the purpose was to cover up a politically deep-rooted conspiracy to murder Kennedy. I think the purpose was to bolster public perception of an otherwise weak case against Oswald, who was already dead when most of the cover up was instigated. The fact that anomalies were found is indicative of shoddy work. A deep-rooted, elaborate, pre-planned conspiracy to murder Kennedy would have ensured that a better job was done of planting evidence. I think the shoddiness of the evidence trail indicates that it was created after the fact, not before.