-Caveat Lector-
What a difference a day (or two) makes
By Jim Marrs
Date: 10/05/2000
URL: http://www.alienzoo.com/features/m/200010050001.cfm
Wouldn’t any criminal be delighted if he could have complete, secret, and
unsupervised control over all the evidence in his case for two full days?
Wouldn’t the verdict in his criminal trial be a swift "not guilty" if he had
the opportunity to "doctor" the evidence?
This is precisely the situation which occurred in the murder of President
John F. Kennedy beginning the very night of the assassination. Although the
proof of the disappearance and reappearance of the JFK evidence has been
lying right in front of researchers since the fateful weekend, no one seems
to have perceived the significance of the matter. However, at least one
person with access to official federal government documents apparently
recognized this significance and took steps to conceal it from the American
public.
This issue began the evening of November 22, 1963, when Dallas Police Chief
Jesse Curry began receiving calls from Washington. As he related to Warren
Commission member Allen Dulles, "We kept getting calls from the FBI. They
wanted this [assassination] evidence up in Washington, in the [FBI]
laboratory, and there was some discussion…"
Curry made it clear that "we felt this was a murder that had been committed
in the county, city and county [sic] of Dallas, and that we had prior, I mean
we had jurisdiction over this. The FBI actually had no jurisdiction over it,
the Secret Service actually had no jurisdiction over it…
"[Homicide Capt. Will] Fritz told me, he says, `Well, I need the evidence
here, I need to get some people to try to identify the gun, to try to
identify this pistol and these things, and if it is in Washington, how can I
do it?’"
But someone in Washington was most persistent. "We got several calls
insisting we send this (evidence), and nobody would tell me exactly who it
was that was insisting, ‘just say I got a call from Washington, and they
wanted this evidence up there,’ insinuated it was someone in high authority
that was requesting this, and we finally agreed as a matter of trying to
cooperate with them, actually." Consistent rumors in Dallas have long been
that President Lyndon B. Johnson’s assistant Cliff Carter made the calls.
On the basis of this pressure from Washington and against their better
judgment, the Dallas police reluctantly released all of the assassination
evidence to the FBI.
"…we finally, the night, about midnight of Friday night, we agreed to let the
FBI have all [emphasis added] the evidence and they said they would bring it
to their laboratory and they would have an agent stand by and when they were
finished with it to return it to us," stated Curry.
However, much of the evidence was never returned to Dallas. Curry told the
Warren Commission on April 22, 1964, "Subsequently they photographed these
things in Washington and sent us copies, some 400, I think 400 copies of
different items. So far as I know, we have never received any of that
evidence back. It is still in Washington, I guess. Perhaps the Commission has
it."
"Yes; the Commission is still working with it," responded Commission General
Counsel J. Lee Rankin. What the Dallas authorities did receive was "very poor
reproduction of some of these items on microfilm", according to Fritz.
There is no doubt that the FBI received the assassination evidence late on
the night of the crime. A document signed by J. Edgar Hoover himself stating
that "No latent [finger]prints of value were developed on Oswald’s revolver,
the cartridge cases, the unfired cartridge, the clip in the rifle or the
inner parts of the rifle," was dated November 23, 1963.
Yet the journeys of this vital evidence apparently was unofficial and was
never made clear to the public. The first official word on the transfer of
assassination evidence came on Tuesday, Nov. 26, when both Dallas newspapers
carried stories announcing that the evidence was to be turned over to federal
authorities.
So now the FBI was officially on the case and officially in charge of the
evidence. But what could have happened during the two days while the evidence
was unofficially in their hands. Fabrication, substitution, elimination,
alteration - anything could have been done to the evidence, with no effective
"chain" of responsibility. Unlike 1963, today the FBI has come under
suspicion of poor management of evidence at best and downright falsification
of evidence at worst. Under Hoover’s iron control, it was have been an easy
matter for certain ranking Bureau officials to do with the evidence whatever
they pleased.
And evidence exists for just such speculation. For example, FBI document
Dallas 89-43 dated Nov. 29, 1963, and first publicly released in 1968, stated
brown wrapping paper in the Texas School Book Depository "was examined by the
FBI Laboratory and found to have the same observable characteristics as the
brown paper bag shaped like a gun case which was found near the scene of the
shooting on the sixth floor . . ." This was incriminating evidence against
Oswald, as he worked in the building and had access to the wrapping paper.
However, in 1980, another document labeled Dallas 89-43 and dated Nov. 29,
1963, was found in the National Archives which was identical to the 1968
version except it stated the wrapping paper "was examined by the FBI
Laboratory and found not to be identical with the paper gun case found at the
scene of the shooting."
The fact that federal authorities had all the assassination evidence under
covert control for two days could go far in explaining the contradictions and
questionable conclusions of the official investigation. And apparently at
least one person understood the gravity of this issue as there was an attempt
to obscure it in the Warren Commission materials.
In 1992, the "confidential" deposition of FBI fingerprint expert James C.
Cadigan was located in the National Archives. In his April 30, 1964,
testimony to Warren Commission attorney Melvin A. Eisenberg, Cadigan
explained why some normal fingerprint procedures were not followed in this
case.
"It may be that there was a very large volume of evidence being examined at
the time. Time was of the essence, and this material, I believe, was returned
to the Dallas Police within two or three days, and it was merely in my
opinion a question of time. We have [sic] a very large volume of evidence,"
explained Cadigan.
During this otherwise unremarkable questioning, Cadigan had inadvertently let
the cat out of the bag. He declared to one and all that the FBI had a "large
volume" of assassination evidence some of which was then returned to the
Dallas police. Later in his deposition, Cadigan made it absolutely clear when
this evidence was being handled.
"Initially the first big batch of evidence was brought into the laboratory on
November 23rd of 1963 and this consisted of many, many items . . . November
23, 1963. It was a very large quantity of evidence that was brought in. There
were several agent examiners available to evaluate this material. There were
supervisory officials, there were representatives from our Internal Security
Division, all of whom had an interest in this matter, and it was decided they
wanted certain items treated for latent fingerprints."
So a virtual posse of FBI agents and officials swarmed over the assassination
evidence all day Saturday and Sunday. Obviously this unpublicized and
unmonitored access to all the evidence might caused a suspicious mind to
question the validity of the evidence later used to establish Oswald’s guilt.
It is doubly suspicious that in Cadigan’s original deposition some unknown
person scratched out his statement about being rushed to return the evidence
to Dallas and scribbled "delete" in the margin. This same person marked out
Cadigan’s statement that "I could only speculate" and wrote in "No, this is a
latent fingerprint matter."
Sure enough, these changes showed up in the version published by the Warren
Commission.
Why did someone commit a crime by illegally altering an official government
deposition and why did the Warren Commission print an altered version of
Cadigan’s statement? Were they unaware of the alteration? Or did someone
recognize the significance of the assassination evidence being in the hands
of the FBI with no publicity or accountability for two days?
Perhaps a study of the stenographic notes and tapes might reveal other
alterations to the testimony of Cadigan and others. But don’t count on it.
According to a notice on the cover sheet of Cadigan’s deposition, "Stenotype
Tape, Master Sheets, Carbon, and Waste turned over to Commission for
destruction."
While the assassination evidence is often ambiguous and contradictory and
will certainly be in controversy for years to come, the handling of the
evidence clearly points to manipulation and obfuscation at the highest levels
of federal authority, a clear view of who was responsible for at least the
demonstrable cover-up, if not the assassination itself.
To learn more about the JFK assassination, read Crossfire: The Plot that
Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs, available from finer bookstores everywhere. To
learn how JFK opposed the New World Order globalists, read Rule by Secrecy,
and for an in-depth look at UFOs, read Alien Agenda, both by Jim Marrs and
both available from AlienZoo.com, JimMarrs.com, and from finer bookstores
everywhere. Another book by Jim Marrs called Psi Spies, which was suppressed
by the government in 1995, deals with the U. S. Army’s remote viewing
program, is now available online right here at Alien Zoo. Order yours today.
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