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...Texas School Book Depository Building, both before and until shortly after the assassination, is absolutely authenticated. Moreover, an eyewitness placed Oswald near the killer's sixth-floor store room lair a scant 3 minutes before the fatal shots were fired. In that store room, the Commission says, Oswald's palmprint was found on a carton that had been moved to make a nest for the assassin as he peered out the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...identifiable fingerprints were found on the rifle after the assassination. According to the Commission, this was partly because the wooden stock was too rough to hold them. But the police did discover a palmprint from Oswald on a section of the barrel attached to the stock. Said the Commission: "Oswald's palmprint on the underside of the barrel demonstrates that he handled the rifle when it was disassembled." A tuft of cotton fibers ? blue, grey-black and orange-yellow ? was found clinging to the rifle butt. Under microscopic examination, the fibers matched those in a shirt that Oswald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...from which the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

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