The Handgun, Part III

[Gil Jesus]

Shipping the handgun

In 1963, concealable firearms could only be shipped through the US Post Office if the recipient were a military officer, national guard officer, a law enforcement officer, an officer of an armed security service or the purchasing agent thereof, or a gun manufacturer or dealer.
 

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Any recipient who did not fall into this category had to receive his concealable weapon through a private freight company.
The main freight company in the US in 1963 was REA Express, recognizable by their green and red trucks.

Also in 1963, freight companies would not deliver C.O.D. packages to post office boxes. Instead, they would keep the package at their facility and send a notice to the post office box that the package had arrived. Then the recipient would go to their facility with the notice and form of picture ID and pay the outstanding amount in order to receive their package.
This would insure that all charges would be paid in full.

Receiving the handgun

Just as it had failed to prove that Oswald received the rifle from the Dallas Post Office, the FBI failed to prove that Oswald received the handgun from REA Express.
 

The Dallas Sheriff's Department had taken a statement from 22 year old Hugh W. Betzner about some photographs he had taken in Dealey Plaza at the time of the assassination.
According to this report by Dallas Sheriff's Deputy C.L. "Lummie" Lewis, Betzner was an employee of REA Express.
 

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The FBI interviewed him on the day of the assassination, but only questioned him about the photographs he had taken.
Why wasn't Betzner asked any questions about REA Express ?

In fact, no one from REA Express was ever interviewed by the FBI. No questions were asked about their procedures regarding the handling of handguns or of C.O.D. shipments.
No REA employee was ever identified as having handled the transaction that put the alleged Tippit murder weapon in the hands of Tippit's alleged killer.

This, in my view, is just unbelieveable.

Because the Commission worked from Seaport Traders' copies of the REA paperwork, someone from REA Express should have been asked to authenticate and/or verify the documents in evidence. That was not done.

In addition, the FBI provided no evidence that the REA Express office ever sent a notification card to Box 2915. It provided no receipt that the balance, the COD charges and the shipping charges for the package had been paid in full.

It provided no identification of the person who picked the package up.

And the FBI could have obtained the bank records of REA and Seaport Traders to show payment was received by REA and made to Seaport.

But they didn't do that.

Finally, no paperwork regarding the handgun was ever found among Oswald's possessions.

Coming in Part IV: A nick, a click and the struggle in the Texas Theater.

Edited June 30, 2022 by Gil Jesus

[David Von Pein]

18 hours ago, Gil Jesus said:

It provided no identification of the person who picked the package up. And the FBI could have obtained the bank records of REA and Seaport Traders to show payment was received by REA and made to Seaport. But they didn't do that.

Such information was no doubt deemed totally unnecessary to obtain by the Warren Commission. And the reason those things were totally unnecessary in this case is fairly obvious: It was because the Warren Commission knew that J.D. Tippit's killer (Lee Oswald) was caught red-handed with the Tippit murder weapon in his very own hands just half-an-hour after Tippit was killed with that very same gun (as proven by the four bullet shells that littered 10th Street and Patton Avenue, which were shells matched conclusively to Oswald's Smith & Wesson revolver, Serial No. V510210). (The protests of conspiracists notwithstanding, of course.)

The following comment is worth repeating every few days whenever the topic of Oswald & The Tippit Murder comes up. And so I had it digitally laminated in July of 2021 in the form of this logo below. I'm thinking of having a few hundred wallet-sized versions printed up and distributed to all conspiracy theorists in the United States and Canada:

http://Quoting-Common-Sense.blogspot.com

 

Edited June 30, 2022 by David Von Pein