Post by Gil Jesus on Sept 4, 2023 7:56:12 GMT -5
By Gil Jesus (2023)
"If Lee is going to assassinate the President, or anyone else, is he going to have photographs laying all around with the gun? No, sir." (Testimony of Marguerite Oswald, 1 H 190)
The Official Story
Police had searched the Paine residence Friday afternoon without a warrant but with the consent of Ruth Paine, but when police started taking some of her personal items, she objected and rescinded her consent.
At that point, the search was over.
No photographs or negatives of Oswald with a rifle were found on Friday afternoon's search.
A second search of the Paine residence was done on Saturday, the 23rd because, according to Detective Richard Stovall, "we didn't actually have time to stay as long as we needed to, to check the whole house." (7 H 193)
This is nonsense. There's no such thing as not having enough time to conduct a search. Searches are not limited by time. You search until the search is completed. You don't leave and come back the next day, when evidence that might have been present on Friday had been destroyed.
Even if Ruth Paine had ended Friday's search, police should have immediately sought a search warrant and continued their search.
Timing Problems
Depending on whose testimony you believe, the detectives involved in the Saturday search testified that they arrived anywhere from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm. (7 H 193, 7 H 210)
Because they were out of their jurisdiction, their search required the presence of a member of a law enforcement agency with jurisdiction. That member was Irving Police detective John A. McCabe.
Dallas Police testified that they arrived at the Paine residence, "accompanied by Det. McCabe of Irving PD". (Dallas Police Box 1, pg.16)
But that's a lie. McCabe was nowhere near the Paine residence when the Dallas Police arrived.
McCabe told the FBI that he was contacted by Detectives Rose and Stovall at "2:45 pm" to "accompany them to the Paine residence".
This means that the Dallas Police were alone on the property, without any outside law officers present for at least 45 minutes (and maybe longer) before they called McCabe.
And the homeowners, as well, would not be on the property when the photos were found. (7 H 209)
A Strange Mutual Trust
When they arrived Saturday, the Paines were getting ready to go food shopping and left the police alone on the property to conduct the search. (7 H 215)
This has always been a bizarre part of the story for me. I find it so because there is an enormous amount of mutual trust going on here by both Ruth Paine and the Dallas Police.
From the homeowner's point of view, I would never leave my property if the police were searching it for items that belonged to someone else.
How do I know that they're not going to "recover" some of my belongings?
From the police point of view, I would never allow occupants of a property I was searching to leave.
How do you know that your search isn't going to turn up evidence implicating them in the crime?
What if you find something and have questions about it?
How do you know they're not going to jump on a private plane at Redbird Airport and take off to Mexico?
Anytime you search a property, you limit the mobility of the occupants. This is for the safety of your officers and to prevent the destruction of any evidence. You search them for weapons then have them sit on a couch and place an officer with them to make sure they don't move until the search is completed.
This denies them access to any weapons that might be in the house and prevents them from destroying evidence.
Allowing the occupants of the residence to leave the property and delaying the request for an Irving Detective could have only one purpose: to make sure there would be no witnesses to what the Dallas police were going to do.
Coming in Part II: Evidence Police had the photos before their "discovery."