Post by Gil Jesus on Jul 10, 2021 5:44:09 GMT -5
EVIDENCE THAT OSWALD DIDN'T BUY OR MAIL THE MONEY ORDER
Buying and Mailing the Money Order
The next problem with the purchasing of the rifle is that at the date & time Oswald was alleged to have purchased the money order he allegedly used to pay for it and mailed the envelope containing it, he was at work at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall. The money order was stamped that it had been purchased on March 12, 1963 and the envelope it was allegedly mailed in had a postmarked time of 10:30 am, meaning that IF Oswald bought he money order, filled it out and mailed it, he had to have accomplished it between the time the Post Office opened and the postmarked time.
The problem comes in when we examine Oswald's work timesheet from Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall for March 12, 1963, the date the money order was allegedly purchased. Below is Commission Exhibit 1855 and it shows that DURING THE TIME OSWALD SHOULD HAVE BEEN PURCHASING, FILLING OUT AND MAILING THE MONEY ORDER FOR THE RIFLE, HE WAS AT WORK. ( red box )
In fact, the document shows that excluding Oswald's lunch break from 12:15-12:45pm, EVERY SINGLE MINUTE OF OSWALD'S DAY IS ACCOUNTED FOR FROM 8:00am THROUGH 5:15pm. And there is NO EVIDENCE that Oswald was late for work that day. In fact, according to his boss at JCS, he was "very punctual".
Mr. JENNER. Was he regular in his arrival at work?
Mr. GRAEF. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Were his work habits in that connection satisfactory?
Mr. GRAEF. Yes. I would say he was very punctual in his arrival to work.
( 10 H 184 )
There is also NO EVIDENCE that Oswald received a ride to work that day from a co-worker. There IS EVIDENCE from testimony, however, that when co-workers offered rides to Oswald, he declined.
Mr. OFSTEIN. ..............he was also offered rides by Mr. Graef, and I offered him a ride a couple of times either to his home or wherever he wanted to catch a bus, and I know that he always declined my offer of a ride.
Mr. JENNER. What did he say?
Mr. OFSTEIN. He said; no, he would go ahead and walk, and usually in the evening when he would leave he would say, "I am going up to the post office to pick up my mail, and a couple of times I would offer to give him a ride up this way, as it wasn't much out of my way and I have to come in this direction anyway to Live Oak before I turn, which is only about a block difference, and he always declined to ride and would walk.
( 10 H 205 )
And there's no evidence that Oswald left work that day in order to purchase the money order and mail it.
Amazingly, not one single witness was ever called to testify about Commission Exhibit 1855 and there is NO MENTION of this document in ANY of the 15 volumes of testimony. In addition, there is NO EVIDENCE that the Main Post Office opened before 8am, allowing Oswald to make his purchase prior to going to work.
In fact, this document found in Box 50 of the HSCA Segregated CIA files shows that the post office window opened at 8:00 am:
The fact is there's no evidence that Oswald lied on his timesheet.
There's no evidence that Oswald was late for work on March 12th.
And there's no evidence that Oswald was at the post office at 8:00 am.
We know the post office window opened at 8:00 am and the record shows that Oswald was at work at 8:00 am. The burden of proof is on Oswald's accusers: if they can prove that Oswald was not at work and at the post office at 8 am on March 12, 1963, let's see their evidence.
As if Oswald not having the time to purchase, fill out and mail the money order wasn't enough, the next problem is that the money order was not mailed at the post office from where it was purchased, but it was mailed instead THREE POSTAL ZONES AWAY. An examination of the postmark on the envelope indicates that it was mailed in postal zone 12, when Oswald worked and allegedly purchased the money order in postal zone 1.
There are those pushing false claims that the "12" on the postmark had to do with some sort of processing machine and that the number represents the number of the machine. But those of us old enough to remember before the advent of "zip codes" , there were postal zones like Detroit 15, Michigan, New York 18, New York or Los Angeles, 24, California. This is what you wrote on the envelopes when you mailed them. The "12" is a postal zone. It's Dallas 12, Texas. The number has nothing to do with a machine.
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And there is NO EVIDENCE that Oswald gave the envelope to someone else to mail.
The Warrenatti have argued that the timesheet was not an accurate depiction of time spent but to argue that is to say that Jagger-Childs-Stovall was intentionally overcharging some customers while undercharging others.
Then the question becomes: if the timesheets are not accurate, why use them at all ? Why not just have employees punch in and punch out ?
Harry Houdini
Dallas Postal Inspector Harry Holmes told the Warren Commission that the money order had been purchased early on the morning of March 12, 1963, ( 7 H 295 ) yet there is nothing on the money order that shows the time of day it was sold.
The only time mark was the post mark on the envelope. So how did Holmes know what time of day the money order was purchased ?
The Warren Commission never asked him.
The only way he could have known was if he had seen or handled the envelope before the assassination.
Processing the Money Order
Another problem, this one of the money order itself is that it contained no stamp from any financial institution. The only stamp on it was a stamp on the back from Klein's Sporting Goods for deposit into its account ( number 50-91144 ) in the First National Bank of Chicago.
Bank stamps were used on postal money orders in those days as is evidenced by the referral to same ( "bank stamps are not regarded as endorsements" ) on the back of the money order.
The single stamp on the back was identified in testimony as the stamp of Klein's.
Mr. BELIN. I hand you what has been marked as Commission Exhibit No. 788, which appears to be a U.S. postal money order payable to the order of Klein's Sporting Goods.....And on the reverse side there appears to be an endorsement of a bank. I wonder if you would read that endorsement, if you would, and examine it, please.
Mr. WALDMAN. This is a stamped endorsement reading "Pay to the order of the First National Bank of Chicago," followed by our account No. 50 space 91144, and that, in turn, followed by "Klein's Sporting Goods, Inc."
Mr. BELIN. Do you know whether or not that is your company's endorsement on that money order?
Mr. WALDMAN. It's identical to our endorsement.
( 7 H 367 )
The stamp wasn't an endorsement from a bank. It was the endorsement stamp of Klein's Sporting Goods transferring the funds into its bank account. The money order was never paid by any financial institution. Had the money order been processed by the First National Bank of Chicago, the bank would have put its DATED stamp on it.
Financial institutions stamp checks and money orders in order to ensure that each institution pays only once on each item. Without the stamp, there's no proof that the money was actually paid by the bank and credited to the customer's account. The stamps also assist law enforcement in tracking finances in criminal cases. This money order should have had on it the DATED stamps of all financial institutions that handled the document.
The fact that it doesn't is proof that it never passed through the Federal Reserve System.
Postal Money Orders received by the First National Bank of Chicago, were then sent to the Federal Reserve Bank, also in Chicago. The First National Bank did NOT microfilm money orders. To confound the tracking of the money order, the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago kept records of money orders for only six months, which means that it too had no record of this particular money order. At the time the money order would have been processed, 75% of money orders were being sent to Washington, D.C. and the other 25 % were being sent to Kansas City, Missouri. Lester Gohr of the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago provided the FBI with the addresses of both locations. ( CD 7, pg. 193 )
So far, in tracking the money order, this is what we have:
The money order with a stamp for Klein's Sporting Goods for deposit into its account into the First National Bank of Chicago.
No evidence that it was received by the bank.
No evidence that it was received by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
No evidence that it was received by any financial institution in either Kansas City or Washington, D.C.
And yet, this "magic money order" is able to find its way through the Federal Reserve System WITHOUT ANY ENDORSEMENTS from the financial institutions which handled it.
Not surprisingly, this money order without bank stamps becomes part of a deposit which never included it.
TOMORROW: Parts V and VI: THE DEPOSIT THAT NEVER WAS and FORGING OSWALD'S HANDWRITING