Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
As has been explained in chapter IV, the Commission determined that
none of the warehouse employees who might have customarily handled
these cartons left prints which could be identified.[C6-44] This was
considered of some probative value in determining whether Oswald moved
the cartons to the window. All but 1 of the 25 definitely identifiable
prints were the prints of 2 persons--an FBI employee and a member of
the Dallas Police Department who had handled the cartons during the
course of the investigation.[C6-45] One identifiable palmprint was not
identified.[C6-46]
The presence on these cartons of unidentified prints, whether or
not identifiable, does not appear to be unusual since these cartons
contained commercial products which had been handled by many people
throughout the normal course of manufacturing, warehousing, and
shipping. Unlike other items of evidence such as, for example, a
ransom note in a kidnaping, these cartons could contain the prints of
many people having nothing to do with the assassination. Moreover,
the FBI does not maintain a filing system for palmprints because,
according to the supervisor of the Bureau’s latent fingerprint section,
Sebastian F. Latona, the problems of classification make such a system
impracticable.[C6-47] Finally, in considering the significance of the
unidentified prints, the Commission gave weight to the opinion of
Latona to the effect that people could handle these cartons without
leaving prints which were capable of being developed.[C6-48]
Though the fingerprints other than Oswald’s on the boxes thus provide
no indication of the presence of an accomplice at the window, two
Depository employees are known to have been present briefly on the
sixth floor during the period between 11:45 a.m., when the floor-laying
crew stopped for lunch, and the moment of the assassination. One of
these was Charles Givens, a member of the floor-laying crew, who went
down on the elevator with the others and then, returned to the sixth
floor to get his jacket and cigarettes.[C6-49] He saw Oswald walking
away from the southeast corner, but saw no one else on the sixth floor
at that time. He then took one of the elevators back to the first floor
at approximately 11:55 a.m.[C6-50]
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