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Paraffin tests on both hands showed that Oswald had fired a gun recently...
Immediately after Oswald was slain, the Dallas district attorney, Henry Wade, announced that the "Oswald case was closed."...The Justice Department then announced that the case was not closed. Wade called a press conference to "reopen" the case. In a radio and television statement, publicized throughout the world, Wade presented "the evidence, piece by piece, for you."...Wade presented 15 assertions, some mere conclusions, some with a source not revealed, some documented...
...number of witnesses saw Oswald at the window of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository...
...Oswald's palm print appeared on the rifle...
Wade's answers, while truthful, were a study in understatement. The district atorney neglected to state the additional facts that tests had been conducted on Oswald's face and that the tests revealed that there were no traces of gunpower on Oswald's face (Washington Star, Nov. 24). One fact emerges here with clarity. The paraffin test did not prove Oswald fired a rifle recently. The test tended to prove Oswald had not fired a rifle recently.... The rifle, an Italian carbine, had been purchased by Oswald through the mall and under an assumed name...