Post by John Duncan on Sept 6, 2021 14:04:21 GMT -5
Time to Wrap it Up
By Raymond Gallgher
1/25/12
When Ruth Paine testified before the Commission in Washington, she claimed to have wrapping paper at her home in Irving that was similar to the paper used to make the homemade bag found in the Book Depository.
Later, when members of the Commission staff went to the Paine home to examine the paper, Mr. Jenner took a sample of the paper provided to him by Mrs. Paine. He took a sample 3 feet 1 inch in length and marked it as Ruth Paine Exhibit 272. This exhibit appears in Vol. XXI, p. 3. In the contents of Volume XXI, this exhibit is titled: Sample of wrapping paper kept by Ruth Paine in her home.
In reality, this evidence and its claims are misleading and irrelevant. It has no connection with the assassination since this roll was purchased after the event. This, however, did not stop Assistant Counsel Albert Jenner from using the sample to mislead researchers.
At the time of Jenner's visit to the Paine home, Mrs. Paine was asked where she kept wrapping paper. She went to the kitchen-dining room area and took a tube of wrapping paper from the bottom drawer of a secretary desk and gave it to Mr. Jenner.
Mr. Jenner: "And is that the remains of the tube of wrapping paper that you had in your home on November 22, 1963?"
Mrs. Paine: No, this is a new one, similar to the old one.
Mr. Jenner: Did you purchase it at the same place that you purchased the previous wrapping paper?"
Mrs. Paine: I purchased the rolls at some dime store.
At this point, Jenner should have realized that the sample was meaningless as evidence and abandoned the effort, but he went on with the charade. He had his assistant, Agent Howlett, measure the width of the paper (two feet 6 inches) then cut 3 feet 1 inch from the roll.
Mr. Jenner: We will mark the sheet of wrapping paper... as Ruth Paine Exhibit No. 272. Would you mark that, please Miss Reporter? (Vol. IX, p.411)
The average investigator probably would have moved on when he realized that he was examining a roll of paper that could not have been used to make a rifle case, but Jenner was determined not to waste the visit to the Paine home in Irving. And, for the rest of the evening, Jenner, along with his team of assistants, with their tape measures in hand, measured everything in sight.
From the testimony:
Mr. Jenner: That your home is well set back, we'll measure it in a moment, from the street, and it is a generous lawn with some bushes, that bushes are not as solid as a screen but they are up close to your home. The lawn area is entirely open except for the oak tree which I have herefore described as being a generous shade tree about 2 feet in diameter. We will measure the circumference in a moment. John Joe, could we measure he distance from the south wall of the house to the sidewalk?
At this point, Agent Howlett saved some time by announcing: "There is no sidewalk. There is a curb." After a measurement from the house to the curb (42 feet) they measured the canopy over the porch entrance, length and width (11 feet in depth and 7 feet three inches from east to west). (Vol. IX, p.413)
Anyone watching this comedy would have taken Jenner for a real estate salesman preparing a brochure for a home sale. With members of the Warren Commission indulging in such ridiculous conduct is it any wonder why there has never been any real enthusiasm for accepting the findings of the Warren Report?
Time to Wrap it Up.
By Raymond Gallgher
1/25/12
When Ruth Paine testified before the Commission in Washington, she claimed to have wrapping paper at her home in Irving that was similar to the paper used to make the homemade bag found in the Book Depository.
Later, when members of the Commission staff went to the Paine home to examine the paper, Mr. Jenner took a sample of the paper provided to him by Mrs. Paine. He took a sample 3 feet 1 inch in length and marked it as Ruth Paine Exhibit 272. This exhibit appears in Vol. XXI, p. 3. In the contents of Volume XXI, this exhibit is titled: Sample of wrapping paper kept by Ruth Paine in her home.
In reality, this evidence and its claims are misleading and irrelevant. It has no connection with the assassination since this roll was purchased after the event. This, however, did not stop Assistant Counsel Albert Jenner from using the sample to mislead researchers.
At the time of Jenner's visit to the Paine home, Mrs. Paine was asked where she kept wrapping paper. She went to the kitchen-dining room area and took a tube of wrapping paper from the bottom drawer of a secretary desk and gave it to Mr. Jenner.
Mr. Jenner: "And is that the remains of the tube of wrapping paper that you had in your home on November 22, 1963?"
Mrs. Paine: No, this is a new one, similar to the old one.
Mr. Jenner: Did you purchase it at the same place that you purchased the previous wrapping paper?"
Mrs. Paine: I purchased the rolls at some dime store.
At this point, Jenner should have realized that the sample was meaningless as evidence and abandoned the effort, but he went on with the charade. He had his assistant, Agent Howlett, measure the width of the paper (two feet 6 inches) then cut 3 feet 1 inch from the roll.
Mr. Jenner: We will mark the sheet of wrapping paper... as Ruth Paine Exhibit No. 272. Would you mark that, please Miss Reporter? (Vol. IX, p.411)
The average investigator probably would have moved on when he realized that he was examining a roll of paper that could not have been used to make a rifle case, but Jenner was determined not to waste the visit to the Paine home in Irving. And, for the rest of the evening, Jenner, along with his team of assistants, with their tape measures in hand, measured everything in sight.
From the testimony:
Mr. Jenner: That your home is well set back, we'll measure it in a moment, from the street, and it is a generous lawn with some bushes, that bushes are not as solid as a screen but they are up close to your home. The lawn area is entirely open except for the oak tree which I have herefore described as being a generous shade tree about 2 feet in diameter. We will measure the circumference in a moment. John Joe, could we measure he distance from the south wall of the house to the sidewalk?
At this point, Agent Howlett saved some time by announcing: "There is no sidewalk. There is a curb." After a measurement from the house to the curb (42 feet) they measured the canopy over the porch entrance, length and width (11 feet in depth and 7 feet three inches from east to west). (Vol. IX, p.413)
Anyone watching this comedy would have taken Jenner for a real estate salesman preparing a brochure for a home sale. With members of the Warren Commission indulging in such ridiculous conduct is it any wonder why there has never been any real enthusiasm for accepting the findings of the Warren Report?
Time to Wrap it Up.