Post by John Duncan on Mar 11, 2022 16:20:00 GMT -5
Tippit's Vehicle & Dusting For Prints
By John Armstrong
At Captain Westbrook's direction Sargeant Pete Barnes retrieved a fingerprint kit and began dusting the top side of the passenger door on Tippit's patrol car for fingerprints (where Helen Markham and Jimmy Burt saw Tippit's assailant place his hands.) Barnes told the Warren Commission, "I was told that the suspect (who) shot Tippit had come up to the right side of the car, and there was a possibility that he might have placed his hands on there." After Barnes dusted the top of the car door and right front fender Detective Paul Bentley, Sergeant Bud Owens, and Captain George M. Doughty of the Identification Bureau inspected the area and can be seen on Reiland's WFAA-TV film.
Barnes removed "smudged fingerprints" from the right passenger window and "fairly good prints" from the right fender of Tippit's patrol car. Both sets of fingerprints were turned over to the identification bureau and now located at the Dallas Municipal Archives and Records Center in Dallas. Neither set of fingerprints was examined by the Warren Commission to see if they matched Oswald prints taken at DPD headquarters.
Sergeant Barnes told the Warren Commission, "There were several smear prints. None of value." But Detective Paul Bentley told the HSCA in 1978, "He (Doughty) lifted good prints from the exterior section of that door immediately below that rolled-down window." (The "smudged" prints taken by Barnes were shown to the Commission, while the good set of prints by Doughty was not.)
(Researcher Dale Myers sought to answer the question of whether or not the fingerprints found by Sergeant Barnes belonged to Oswald (Harvey). He obtained crime lab photos of the prints found by Barnes on Tippit's car and Oswald's fingerprint card taken when he was arrested. Myers then asked the senior crime scene technician for Wayne County, Michigan, Herbert Lutz, to compare the two set of
prints.
Myers wrote in his book "With Malice" that Lutz reported the furrows of the fingerprints taken from Tippit's car were wide, while Oswald's fingerprint furrows were much narrower. In addition, the number of ridges and the location of the bifurcations in the patterns were different. Lutz concluded the fingerprints taken by the Dallas Police from Tippit's patrol car were not those of Lee HARVEY Oswald. These fingerprint cards were never entered into evidence in the 26 Volumes.)
Tippit's Car Window Was Rolled Down
Paul Bentley noticed the passenger side front window of Tippit's patrol car was rolled down (as reported by witnesses Helen Markham, Jimmy Burt, and Jack Tatum) and the vent window was open. With the passenger window open, LEE Oswald could have handed Tippit his wallet if he asked for identification. FBI agent Robert Barrett said, "Somebody told me that they saw (Oswald) reach in and hand something to Tippit through the window."
(The Warren Commission concluded the passenger-side window on Tippit's car was rolled up based on a photograph of Tippit's car taken by Sergeant Pete Barnes 30 minutes after the shooting.)
(-A rolled up car window fit the Commission's conclusion that Oswald and Tippit did not know each other and therefore were not talking to each other in a friendly, casual manner.)
(-A rolled down car window did not fit the Commission's conclusion and meant that Oswald and Tippit could have been talking to each in a friendly, casual manner. A rolled down window would also allow Oswald to "reach in and hand something to Tippit," such as the wallet described by FBI Agent Bob Barrett.)
Harvey and Lee. pg. 861-62
By John Armstrong
At Captain Westbrook's direction Sargeant Pete Barnes retrieved a fingerprint kit and began dusting the top side of the passenger door on Tippit's patrol car for fingerprints (where Helen Markham and Jimmy Burt saw Tippit's assailant place his hands.) Barnes told the Warren Commission, "I was told that the suspect (who) shot Tippit had come up to the right side of the car, and there was a possibility that he might have placed his hands on there." After Barnes dusted the top of the car door and right front fender Detective Paul Bentley, Sergeant Bud Owens, and Captain George M. Doughty of the Identification Bureau inspected the area and can be seen on Reiland's WFAA-TV film.
Barnes removed "smudged fingerprints" from the right passenger window and "fairly good prints" from the right fender of Tippit's patrol car. Both sets of fingerprints were turned over to the identification bureau and now located at the Dallas Municipal Archives and Records Center in Dallas. Neither set of fingerprints was examined by the Warren Commission to see if they matched Oswald prints taken at DPD headquarters.
Sergeant Barnes told the Warren Commission, "There were several smear prints. None of value." But Detective Paul Bentley told the HSCA in 1978, "He (Doughty) lifted good prints from the exterior section of that door immediately below that rolled-down window." (The "smudged" prints taken by Barnes were shown to the Commission, while the good set of prints by Doughty was not.)
(Researcher Dale Myers sought to answer the question of whether or not the fingerprints found by Sergeant Barnes belonged to Oswald (Harvey). He obtained crime lab photos of the prints found by Barnes on Tippit's car and Oswald's fingerprint card taken when he was arrested. Myers then asked the senior crime scene technician for Wayne County, Michigan, Herbert Lutz, to compare the two set of
prints.
Myers wrote in his book "With Malice" that Lutz reported the furrows of the fingerprints taken from Tippit's car were wide, while Oswald's fingerprint furrows were much narrower. In addition, the number of ridges and the location of the bifurcations in the patterns were different. Lutz concluded the fingerprints taken by the Dallas Police from Tippit's patrol car were not those of Lee HARVEY Oswald. These fingerprint cards were never entered into evidence in the 26 Volumes.)
Tippit's Car Window Was Rolled Down
Paul Bentley noticed the passenger side front window of Tippit's patrol car was rolled down (as reported by witnesses Helen Markham, Jimmy Burt, and Jack Tatum) and the vent window was open. With the passenger window open, LEE Oswald could have handed Tippit his wallet if he asked for identification. FBI agent Robert Barrett said, "Somebody told me that they saw (Oswald) reach in and hand something to Tippit through the window."
(The Warren Commission concluded the passenger-side window on Tippit's car was rolled up based on a photograph of Tippit's car taken by Sergeant Pete Barnes 30 minutes after the shooting.)
(-A rolled up car window fit the Commission's conclusion that Oswald and Tippit did not know each other and therefore were not talking to each other in a friendly, casual manner.)
(-A rolled down car window did not fit the Commission's conclusion and meant that Oswald and Tippit could have been talking to each in a friendly, casual manner. A rolled down window would also allow Oswald to "reach in and hand something to Tippit," such as the wallet described by FBI Agent Bob Barrett.)
Harvey and Lee. pg. 861-62