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The pictures were then stitched together by NIST ballistics specialists to generate a vivid 3-D rendering detailed enough to show grooves left by the barrel of the gun. The collaborative project was conducted strictly for historic preservation, so neither team has conducted forensic analysis on the bullets. But any researchers interested in taking a fresh stab at the fragments will be able to do so once the scans go live sometime next year. If all goes as planned, a long-awaited cache of files related to the official investigation of the assassination may join the digitizations in October , Ian Shapira reported for the Washington Post last year.

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Asserting the ill-health and distressing financial situation of his mother, Oswald obtained a release from the Marines in Following his discharge, he spent 3 days with his mother in Fort Worth, Tex. From there, he traveled to the Soviet Union where he tried to become a Soviet citizen. Having become disillusioned with Soviet life, he returned to the United States with his wife and baby daughter the following year.

The Oswalds arrived in Fort Worth, Tex. Oswald moved to Dallas in October where he found a job with a graphic arts company. Marina followed in November, but their marriage was plagued by intermittent feuding.

In March , according to the Warren Commission, Oswald purchased a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and telescopic sight from a Chicago mail order house. He also ordered a. Walker, a retired Army general who had been relieved from his post in West Germany for distributing rightwing literature to his troops.

Walker was not harmed. In April , Oswald went to New Orleans. In May, she joined Oswald in New Orleans. On July 19, Oswald was dismissed from his job for inefficiency.

In August, he distributed pro-Castro leaflets and also made two radio broadcasts on behalf of the Castro regime. Oswald went to Mexico City in the latter part of September. He visited the Russian Embassy and Consulate and the Cuban Consulate there, but he failed to get permission to travel to either country. He returned to Dallas on October 3, He visited Marina in Irving on several occasions but continued to try to find a place to live in Dallas.

He began work at the Texas School Book Depository 2 days later. On October 20, Marina gave birth to their second daughter. Oswald next visited Marina and his children in Irving on the evening of November He returned to Dallas the following morning. Tippit was shot and killed. At approximately 2 p.

He was subsequently charged in the murder of Tippit and named as a suspect in the Kennedy assassination. On November 24, , while he was being escorted through the basement of Dallas police headquarters in preparation for being transferred to the Dallas County Sheriff's office, Oswald was fatally wounded by a single shot fired from a pistol by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub operator. As noted, the Warren Commission had traced the chain of possession of the alleged assassination rifle and determined that the name on the money order and purchase form used to buy the rifle was "A.

Hidell" which it determined to be an alias used by Oswald. Photographs of Oswald holding a rifle were also recovered from among his personal possessions, and the Commission concluded that the rifle in the photograph was the one found on the sixth floor of the book depository.

This determination, coupled with Warren Commission evidence of Oswald's ownership of the rifle, if accepted, proved conclusively that Oswald was the owner of the murder weapon. Page 54 Nevertheless, doubt has been cast on the evidence that Oswald owned the rifle in question.

Critics of the Warren Commission have asserted that the chain of possession is meaningless, because more than one Mannlicher-Carcano was issued with the serial number C The committee posed these questions: Could the handwriting on the money order used to purchase the rifle and the application for the post office box be established with confidence as that of Lee Harvey Oswald? Top of Page 1 Handwriting analysis. Among the documents provided to the panel was the money order sent to Klein's Sporting Goods Co.

Although Oswald was fingerprinted when he was arrested in Dallas on November 22, , he refused to sign the card.

Top of Page 2 The backyard photographs. The originals had, however, been destroyed, and microfilm copies that existed were not suitable for conclusive tests. While in the custody of the Dallas police from November 22 to November 24, , Oswald claimed that he did not own a rifle and that the photographs were composites, with his head superimposed over someone else's body. This was done by studying the photographs and the single available original negative for unique identifying characteristics that would have been imparted by that camera.

Once this was successfully done, the objects imaged in the photographs, as well as their shadows, were analyzed photogrammetrically. Finally, the materials were visually scrutinized, using magnification, stereoscopic analysis and digital image processing.

In contrast, some of the critics who claimed the photographs were faked relied on poor quality copies for their analyses. After subjecting these original photographic materials and the camera alleged to have taken the pictures to sophisticated analytical techniques, the photographic evidence panel concluded that it could find no evidence of fakery. The panel found a unique identifying mark present on the weapon in the Archives that correlated with a mark visible on the rifle in the Oswald backyard photographs, as well as on the alleged assassination rifle as it appeared in photographs taken after the assassination in A great deal of what the Commission sought to show about Oswald rested on her testimony, yet she gave incomplete and inconsistent statements at various times to the Secret Service, FBI and the Commission.

Marina's role in what happened in Dallas rested primarily on the results of scientific analysis. The committee found no evidence that would indicate that Marina had foreknowledge of the assassination or that she helped her husband in any way in his efforts to assassinate the President. In its investigation of conspiracy, the committee's undertaking was not furthered by Marina's testimony, since she professed to know little of Oswald's associates in New Orleans or Dallas.

Page 56 In addition, the relative lengths of component parts of the alleged assassination rifle at the National Archives were compared to component parts of the rifle that appeared in various photographs, including the backyard photographs. During the course of the committee's investigation, George de Mohrenschildt, who had been a friend of Oswald, committed suicide. The committee, pursuant to a subpena, obtained de Mohrenschildt's personal papers, which included another copy of the Oswald backyard photograph.

This copy, unlike any of those previously recovered, had an inscription on the back: "To my dear friend George, from Lee. If Oswald did sign the photograph, his claim that he did not own the rifle and that the photograph was a fake could be discounted. The photographic panel found no evidence of fakery in the backyard photographs, including the one found in de Mohrenschildt's effects. Having resolved these issues, the committee concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald owned the rifle from which the shots that killed President Kennedy were fired.

Top of Page 4. Lee Harvey Oswald, shortly before the assassination, had access to and was present on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building Testimony of book depository employees Physical evidence of Oswald's presence Oswald's whereabouts Lovelady or Oswald? Witness testimony The Warren Commission found that Lee Harvey Oswald worked principally on the first and sixth floors of the Texas School Book Depository, gathering books listed on orders and delivering them to 12 Previous studies analyzing the relative lengths of the component parts of rifles shown in various post-assassination photographs that questioned the identification of the rifle failed to consider the effect of perspective on the way that an object is imaged in a photograph.

Page 57 the shipping room on the first floor. The Commission reached this conclusion by interviewing Oswald's supervisors and fellow employees.

Roy Truly, superintendent of the depository, had stated to the Warren Commission that Oswald "had occasion to go to the sixth floor quite a number of times every day, each day, after books. Materials were examined for fingerprints, including a long, rectangular paper sack that was discovered near the southeast corner window and cartons that were found stacked adjacent to the window. The paper sack, which was suitable for containing a rifle, showed a latent palmprint and fingerprint of Oswald; one of the cartons showed both a palmprint and fingerprint identified as belonging to Oswald, and the other showed just his palmprint.

The determination that Oswald's prints were on the sack and cartons was originally made in the investigation that immediately followed the assassination. It was confirmed by a fingerprint expert retained by the committee. Nevertheless, the committee believed that the way the boxes were stacked at the window and the proximity of the paper sack to the window from which the shots were fired must be considered as evidence indicating that he handled the boxes in the process of preparing the so-called sniper's nest and that he had used the paper sack to carry the rifle into the depository.

Top of Page c Oswald's whereabouts As for Oswald's presence on the sixth floor shortly before the assassination, the committee considered the testimony of Oswald's fellow employees at the depository. Although a number of them placed him on the fifth or sixth floor just before noon, a half hour before the assassination, one recalled he was on the first floor at that same time. Whether Oswald was on the first, fifth or sixth floor at noon, he could have still been on the sixth floor at There was no witness who said he saw Oswald anywhere at the time of the assassination, and there was no witness who claimed to have been on the sixth floor and therefore in a position to have seen Oswald, had he been there.

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