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Summary. According to Buell Frazier, Oswald claimed that the bag he was carrying contained curtain rods. Oswald claimed to investigators that he had only carried his lunch. Either way, it is unlikely that the bag contained a rifle. 22 November 1963: A Brief Guide to the JFK Assassination is the essential JFK assassination book.
The fact that CE 142 and CE 677 matched is in fact strong evidence that Oswald got the paper for the bag from the roll in the Depository. 4. Sylvia Meagher claims in her book Accessories After the Fact that, "whatever it contained, the paper bag disappears from view once Oswald moves out of Frazier's sight" (58). She makes this claim because of ...
- Getting The Rifle Into The Building
- The Size of Oswald’s Paper Bag
- Oswald’s Prints on The Sixth–Floor Bag
- The Bag and The Sixth–Floor Sniper’S Nest
- Did The Sixth–Floor Paper Bag Contain The Rifle?
- Manufacturing The TSBD Paper Bag
- Conclusion: The Sixth–Floor Paper Bag
- Further Reading
When Did Oswald Bring the Rifle to the TSBD?
If Oswald had been the lone assassin, he must have brought the rifle into the TSBD himself. According to the Warren Commission’s case against Oswald, he had stored the rifle in the garage of the house in which his wife and children were staying. Oswald himself was living in a rented room several miles nearer to his place of work. The only plausible opportunity for Oswald to retrieve the rifle was when he stayed with his wife and children the night before the assassination.
The Police Discover a Paper Bag
The Dallas police claimed to have found a paper bag on the sixth floor close to the south–eastern window from which Oswald was supposed to have fired the shots. They alleged that he had used this bag to disguise the rifle when bringing it from its storage place to the TSBD. The bag, which was entered into evidence as Commission Exhibit 142, had not been commercially manufactured, but instead had been assembled by hand from wrapping paper and tape.
Problems with the Sixth–Floor Paper Bag
Although the bag contained a partial fingerprint and a partial palm print which linked the bag to Oswald, there were four problems with the Dallas police’s claims: 1. The eye–witness evidence strongly suggests that Oswald had not carried the bag when travelling to work that morning. 2. The photographic and eye–witness evidence does not support the claim that the bag had been found on the sixth floor. 3. Laboratory analysis suggests that the bag had not contained the rifle. 4. Laboratory analy...
Three people saw Oswald before and during his arrival at the TSBD on the day of the assassination. Two of them testified that the only thing Oswald had been carrying was a paper bag that was much shorter than the bag that was supposed to have contained the rifle: 1. Buell Wesley Frazier had given Oswald a lift to work on the morning of the assassin...
Linnie Mae Randle saw Oswald before he began his journey to work. She described him gripping the top of the paper bag in his right hand as the bottom of the bag “almost touched the ground” (Warren Commission Hearings, vol.2, p.248). Buell Wesley Frazier described Oswald about half an hour later, holding the bag “cupped in his [right] hand”, with th...
There is a good deal of uncertainty about whether the police had actually discovered a bag by the supposed sniper’s nest.
According to Wesley Frazier, Oswald said that the bag he carried to work contained curtain rods. Oswald denied this, and claimed that the bag contained only a sandwich and an apple (Warren Report, p.622). The Warren Commissionclaimed that the bag contained a rifle. Evidence from the FBI suggested that the sixth–floor bag had not come into contact w...
Two Types of Paper Bag
Frazier was certain that the bag he had seen Oswald carry was a standard paper bag, manufactured commercially and obtained from a store: Frazier stated that Oswald usually carried his lunch to work in “a little paper sack you get out of a grocery store” (ibid., p.220). The bag produced by the Dallas police had been assembled from wrapping paper, and sealed with tape. It was an ad hoc, home–made bag, not one from a shop.
TSBD Wrapping Paper and Tape Machine
The bag was made from the Texas School Book Depository’s stock of wrapping paper, and sealed with the TSBD’s tape. The paper and the tape each contained markings from one particular tape dispensing machine in the shipping room on the first floor of the building. Because the dispensing machine, which was too sturdy to have been removed from the TSBD, moistened the tape at the same time as it applied the markings, the bag must have been assembled on the premises (Warren Commission Hearings, vol...
When Was the Bag Assembled?
James Cadigan of the FBI laboratory testified that the paper and tape of the bag possessed “identical” physical characteristics to samples of wrapping paper and tape taken by the Dallas police on the afternoon of 22 November (Warren Commission Hearings, vol.4, p.93). The TSBD used approximately one roll of paper every three working days (ibid., p.96). For each consignment of 58 rolls of paper, the company ordered a consignment of 500 rolls of tape (Commission Document 897, p.163), the equival...
It is very likely that the home–made paper bag that was produced in evidence by the Dallas police had no connection to the assassination of President Kennedy: 1. The testimony of the police officers who were first on the scene, and the absence of any photographs of the bag in situ, suggests that the bag which was entered into evidence had not been ...
For a detailed account of the sixth–floor paper bag, see: 1. Ian Griggs, ‘The Paper Bag that Never Was, part 1’, Dealey Plaza Echo, vol.1, no.1, July 1996, pp.30–36. 2. Ian Griggs, ‘The Paper Bag that Never Was, part 2’, Dealey Plaza Echo, vol.1, no.2, November 1996, pp.30–38. 3. http://www.giljesus.com/jfk/the_bag.htm. 4. Silvia Meagher, Accessori...
Oct 16, 2023 · If Oswald's intended conveyance of his rifle with the associated 38" paper bag he made to carry it, happened at any point between Nov 11 and Nov 22, then Oswald becomes the next to last, but not last, possessor of the rifle and 38" paper bag, and may not have been the possessor of either the rifle or the 38" paper bag by the time of the ...
AND THE PAPER BAG. 1.) LEE HARVEY OSWALD'S RIFLE was found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building on 11/22/63. 2.) An EMPTY 38-INCH-LONG PAPER BAG with two of Oswald's prints on it was found under the same window from where OSWALD'S RIFLE positively fired three bullets at President Kennedy. 3.)
- David Von Pein
Scientific evidence linked the rifle and Oswald to a handmade bag of wrapping paper and tape found in the southeast comer of the sixth floor, alongside the window from which the shots were fired.
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Aug 15, 2016 · Stombaugh confirmed that the rifle could have picked up fibers from the blanket and transferred them to the paper bag.203 In light of the other evidence linking Lee Harvey Oswald, the blanket, and the rifle to the paper bag found on the sixth floor, the Commission considered Stombaugh's testimony of probative value in deciding whether Oswald ...
