Steve Roe responds to Cole/Gram on the "steel-jacket" controversy in the Walker shooting

[Mark Ulrik]

33 minutes ago, Tom Gram said:

I found the FBI offer document after the article was published. I have a bookmark but I found it in the Malcolm Blunt archive, and whenever I bookmark something there it just takes me to the main Walker folder so I have to dig it up again. Pretty sure I’ve seen it on MFF too though. I’ll try to find it later. I’m sure you can find it if you search a bit. 

The second thing is in the addendum to the Loeffeler memo. The DPD advised Don Moore that they’d been considering sending in the bullet because they thought - without any evidence - that there there was a possibility Oswald might have taken the shot. 

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=145516#relPageId=30

So the FBI offered to examine the bullet when the crime was fresh, but the DPD declined and decided that the bullet was worthless as evidence - then apparently they did a 180 after the JFKA and decided the bullet was in good enough condition to connect Oswald to the shooting. 

So, “pin the crime on Oswald” might be a bit of an exaggeration, but that’s basically what happened. 

Yeah, the lump of metal known as the Walker bullet became a lot more interesting when ballistic evidence turned up in another, possibly related, shooting case.

The Malcolm Blunt archive is hosted by Dealey Plaza UK, right? But available only to those who know the secret handshake.

[Mark Ulrik]

3 minutes ago, Tom Gram said:

I’m with Ben on this. It is hardly conclusive that that weird looking “N” was even made by a human. All the other visible marks are etched in normally like you’d expect, but the alleged “N” is in tiny bubble letters. What kind of tool could even make a mark like that? 

I'd like to know as well. I think the lab guys used a diamond point pencil.

[Tom Gram]

8 minutes ago, Mark Ulrik said:

Yeah, the lump of metal known as the Walker bullet became a lot more interesting when ballistic evidence turned up in another, possibly related, shooting case.

The Malcolm Blunt archive is hosted by Dealey Plaza UK, right? But available only to those who know the secret handshake.

The Blunt Archive is publicly available - no secret handshake required. Document is in this folder but you can see what I mean. I forgot to export the actual document link so it just takes you to the Walker folder: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1RrTiwCzJSUFQIjPYvkpBkABwR1dDC291/1Q_XODUtyJd9W6ltx7Ls4aJfYU8WmZprM/1F7O_GPEbItHrd-SkM22VwQnV-DO5BIIv?sort=13&direction=a

This is the link to the whole archive. Tons of stuff that isn’t online anywhere else: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1RrTiwCzJSUFQIjPYvkpBkABwR1dDC291

 

[Mark Ulrik]

Thanks, Tom. Appreciated. My googling only brought me to the DPUK website where it seems to be password-protected.

[Tom Gram]

2 hours ago, Mark Ulrik said:

Thanks, Tom. Appreciated. My googling only brought me to the DPUK website where it seems to be password-protected.

No problem. I found the reference to the FBI offering to examine the bullet in April ‘63. See if this link works for you, page 32:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HJvu0pIXVMqXsxo6GRwBVZzyfrPkYSiU/view?usp=drivesdk

[Mark Ulrik]

24 minutes ago, Tom Gram said:

No problem. I found the reference to the FBI offering to examine the bullet in April ‘63. See if this link works for you, page 32:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HJvu0pIXVMqXsxo6GRwBVZzyfrPkYSiU/view?usp=drivesdk

Works great! CE 2524 is a complete version of that letter, I notice. Includes the last (and not very interesting) page.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1141#relPageId=762