Word: fingerprinting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House. Born to a family of civil servants, Hoover first went to work for that "mammoth filing cabinet," the Library of Congress. From there he moved to the Justice Department, where he cleaned up its seamy, scandal-ridden investigative division and established "that monument to bureaucratic endeavor-a central fingerprint file." In the course of his career, Hoover has regularly exaggerated the FBI's accomplishments, writes Kraft. But why not? All federal bureaus, from the FCC to the Reclamation Bureau, do the same. While Hoover has a reputation for being his own boss, he is shrewd enough always...
...fatal shots were fired. It had been fashioned from brown wrapping paper and brown paper tape, identified by Commission experts as having come from the School Book Depository shipping department. Its size was perfect for accommodating Oswald's rifle, if the weapon were disassembled. Oswald's palmprint and a fingerprint were on the bag. Investigators also turned up several green fibers and a single brown one in the bag, tested them and testified to the Commission that they matched fibers on the blanket Oswald had used to wrap his rifle in the Paine garage...
...Else." The case against Beckwith, a Greenwood fertilizer salesman, hinged on a .30/06 Enfield rifle, found near a clump of sweetgum trees across the street from Evers' home in Jackson on the morning after the murder. A fingerprint of Beckwith's was found on the weapon's telescopic sight...
Prosecution witnesses identified the rifle as Beckwith's. One told of trading Beckwith a Japanese-made sight-identical to the one on the Enfield-in return for a revolver. An FBI expert swore the fingerprint belonged to Beckwith and to "no one else in the world...
While entering the Mineralogical Museum, smashing cases with sledgehammers and taking the gems, the thieves left two clear fingerprint specimens. The Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded that any of 17,000 people could have been involved in the crime. There were no other significant clues...