Video: Chief Curry Lies About Knowing About the Paraffin Results

[Gil Jesus]

Chief Curry says he "doesn't know" what the results were of the paraffin test on Oswald's cheek, but the same report that said the hands were positive, also said the right cheek was negative and the left cheek wasn't tested.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=217807#relPageId=577

How could the Chief know of the results of the hands without knowing the results of the cheek ?

https://youtu.be/3c8_7gNwI8o

He knew. He lyed to newsmen to hide the fact that the cheek test was negative.

 

[Pat Speer]

1 hour ago, Gil Jesus said:

Chief Curry says he "doesn't know" what the results were of the paraffin test on Oswald's cheek, but the same report that said the hands were positive, also said the right cheek was negative and the left cheek wasn't tested.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=217807#relPageId=577

How could the Chief know of the results of the hands without knowing the results of the cheek ?

https://youtu.be/3c8_7gNwI8o

He knew. He lyed to newsmen to hide the fact that the cheek test was negative.

 

From Chapter 4f at patspeer.com:

"on 11-23-63, Dr. M.S Mason and Louie Anderson analyzed the paraffin casts of Oswald’s right cheek (Exhibit #1), left hand (Exhibit #2), and right hand (Exhibit #3) created by Detective Barnes. The request form for this test, found in the Dallas Archives, records the time of the request as 11:05 A.M. The results read as follows: “No nitrates are found on Exhibit #1. Nitrate patterns consistent with the suspect having discharged a firearm were present on Exhibits #2 and 3. The pattern on Exhibit #3 is typical of the patterns produced in firing a revolver.” As Oswald was reported to have handled his revolver in the movie theater these results do little to establish that he’d fired a rifle at the President. More clearly, the positive result on Oswald's hands suggested that the elapsed time since the shooting was not the cause of the negative result on Oswald's cheek, and that one might reasonably suspect he did not fire the shots that killed the President.

But did the Dallas Police Department admit to itself or the media that there may have been suspects still at large?

Shortly thereafter, Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry was asked about the tests. He responded, on camera, “I understand that it was positive." When asked what that meant, he explained "It only means that he fired a gun.” When asked by a reporter if there were powder marks on Oswald’s cheek, he replied “I don’t know that. I don’t know that.” A cigarette-chomping reporter then asked "That a gun was fired, Chief, not the rifle, or a pistol?" to which Curry responded "That's right." The reporter then said aloud, for his fellow reporters to hear, “We just say a gun.”

Curry's reluctance to tell the truth misled many. An 11-23-63 script for Ft. Worth station WBAP, found on the University of North Texas website, informed "The paraffin tests on his hands showed positive results, meaning he had recently fired a weapon. The test on his cheek was inconclusive."

Well, this was, in effect, a lie. Curry said he didn't know if there were powder marks on Oswald's cheek, he didn't say the test was inconclusive. And no, no one had told WBAP the test was inconclusive due to the delay in administering the wax to Oswald's cheek. If one were to throw out the negative results for Oswald's cheek due to the DPD's delay in testing, after all, one should similarly throw out the positive results for his hands.

It's clear, then, that the Dallas Police were deliberately concealing the negative result for Oswald's cheek, and were, perhaps inadvertently, encouraging the media to say the paraffin tests proved Oswald had fired a rifle, even though they knew this wasn't true.

Within an hour, Frank McGee of NBC News reported “Oswald still insists he did not kill the president. The paraffin tests proved positive—Oswald did fire a gun during the last twenty-four hours.” The juxtaposition of these statements undoubtedly confused many into thinking that the paraffin tests proved Oswald had fired a rifle.

A UPI article published shortly thereafter tells millions of readers “Pro-Communist Lee Harvey Oswald was charged today with the assassination of President Kennedy. Police said paraffin results on both of Oswald’s hands were 'positive.'" This article similarly suggests the paraffin tests proved Oswald had fired a rifle.

And from there what was merely misleading information turns into misinformation... In a 1:07 PM recap of the evidence, McGee now tells his viewers "Paraffin tests of the side ofOswald's face proved that he had indeed fired a rifle." At 2:07 PM his colleague Bill Ryan adds to the confusion: "Tests showed that Oswald had gunpowder traces on both his hands, indicating that he did use a rifle."

And amazingly, this end-run around Curry's words becomes the accepted story... Despite the fact that, after first interviewing Curry that morning, CBS' man in Dallas Nelson Benton had repeated Curry's words and explained that the paraffin tests did not prove Oswald fired a rifle, CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, in an afternoon broadcast, jumps on NBC's bandwagon, and actually outdoes them; Cronkite tells his viewers:"Paraffin tests taken on his hands indicate he did fire a rifle, as well as a revolver."

[Charles Blackmon]

Why was the DPD so hell-bent on blaming Oswald, including manufacturing evidence against him? Maybe there is already a lengthy post on this in the archives.

I don't buy the excuse that it was because they thought he killed Officer Tipitt. Thats like believing Ruby did Oswald because he wanted to spare Jackie a trial.