Re: Blanket fibers not on the rifle

On May 12, 4:13=A0pm, yeuhd <wall...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Warren Commission Re****t, p. 591-592:
>
> The rifle, Commission Exhibit No. 139, was received in the FBI
Laboratory
> on the morning of November 1963, and examined for foreign material at
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> time. Stombaugh [Paul M. Stombaugh of the FBI] noticed immediately that
> the rifle had been dusted for fingerprints, "and at the time I noted to
> myself that I doubted very much if there would be any fibers adhering to
> the outside of this gun--I possibly might find some in a crevice some
> place--because when the latent fingerprint man dusted this gun,
apparently=

> in Dallas, they use a little brush to dust with they would have dusted
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> fibers off the gun at the same time ... "

I wonder why the FBI did not conduct a controlled experiment by
examining a similar rifle that was stored by them in the blanket?

Herbert