In Memory of FBI Agent Henry Heiberger
Brokedad
Whereas it quite obviously causes much "pain" for Mr. Von Pein to have
to hear the facts as relates to the FBI Laboratory examination of the
clothing of JFK, in memory of the quite obviously honorable Henry
Heiberger, I will again, for it's historical content and context, post
a summary of some of my discussions with Agent Heiberger in regards to
the FBI examination of the clothing worn by JFK at the time of the
assassination.
http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/he-died/#comment-1938
Thomas H. Purvis says:
1. The lower hole was X-rayed and found to contain metallic residue
embedded in the fabric around the perimeter of the puncture/hole.
2. Portions of the fabric containing the metallic residue were cut and
removed from the fabric, and this/these samples were destroyed during
"flame" analysis .
3. Results of the flame analysis demonstrated the metallic residue to
be copper.
4. A separate Lab Test Report is/and was completed for each step in
the process. Therefore, a Lab Test Report for the X-ray as well as a
Lab Test Report for the flame analysis testing was completed.
5. There was NO COMPARISON TESTING whatsoever.
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"Since copper is not a normal element of clothing manufacture, and the
copper was only found around the perimeter of the hole in the coat,
there was no need to run any comparison testing"
"Had comparison testing been done, the sample would have been taken
directly adjacent to the existing hole, and the sample location would
have been marked/circled in chalk, as well as having photographs taken
after removal and marking of the sample location"
"No comparison sample would have been taken up near the coat collar as
anything such as hair cream or makeup could have contaminated the
sample and affected the results"
"I conducted no comparison sampling and no sample was taken from
anywhere on the coat, let alone up near the coat collar. In fact, I
was not even aware that another hole existed there."
"Laboratory Test Reports are completed for each and every test
conducted. You can get those and they will verify exactly what tests
were conducted"
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FBI Agent Henry Heiberger to Tom Purvis, many years ago during our
conversations relative to the FBI Laboratory examination of the
clothing of JFK.
Agent Heiberger is the ONLY FBI Agent to have conducted any physical/
laboratory testing on the clothing worn by JFK at the time of the
assassination.
As I will continue to give "pain" to Mr. Von Pein on the subject
matter, I would therefore urge him to contradict the above stated
information by presentation of all of the factual research which he
has personally conducted in location of and speaking with "first
source" references.
And Mr. Von Pein, just for the record, reading and believing "CASED
CLOSED"; the WC's version of "THE SHOT THAT MISSED"; and/or whatever
VB has to say on the subject matter of the clothing, does not count as
"factual research".
Many, many, others have erroneously reported what the WC states
regarding examination of the clothing of JFK, as if it is "God's
Truth".
"Truth" is what you believe it to be, however it is not necessarily
"FACT"!
"FACT" is, the WC did not inform you of the "Truth" in this matter.
Certainly glad that I was not "dumb" enough to fall for this little
slight/sleight-of-hand maneuver on the part of Specter & Company.
But then again, as anyone who knows anything about me knows, I also
did not fall for the admission of the altered survey data into
evidence either.
Thus, I am also apparantly the only person to have found this little
maneuver, as well as discuss the issues with Mr. Robert West, and
present it as well.
Brokedad
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.assassination.jfk/msg/e2e55b1b67d7735a?
To the contrary!
A bullet which penetrates through the coat, at the edge of the coat
collar, on an oblique angle, thereafter exiting to strike JFK in the
rear of the head at the edge of the hairline, and thus "tunnel"
upwards (when the head is held vertically erect), to strike in the
EOP
region of the skull is quite significant.
Try making that scenario fit with the position of JFK at Z313.
It fits ONLY when JFK is fully bent over/doubled at the waist with
the
back side of his head in an almost horizontal plane, which also
happens to occur down directly in front of James Altgens, who also
happens to have observed this shot strike JFK, as well as Nellie
Connally fully describing that JBC was down with his head in her lap
when the third/last shot blew brain matter all over them, which also
happens to agree with all of those witnesses who stated that the Z313
headshot was the second shot, as well as Mr. Hudson and others who
descirbed the approximate location of the Presidential Limo at the
time of the third/last/final shot.
Z313 is the "Cowlick" entry into the skull, which absolutely exists!
Down in front of James Altgens position is the second impact to the
head of JFK which ultimately resulted in the EOP entry which the
autopsy surgeons readily located.
The elongated nature of the EOP entry wound through the skull easily
reveals this, to include the angle of impact/angle of attack.
As to the examination of the tie:
1. The tie had no "nick" in which fabric was actually absent.
2. The tie had an "abraised" area where the fabric was damaged.
3. The abraised area was X-rayed and revealed metallic residue
embedded in the fabric in the area of the abrasion.
No additional work was done on examination of the tie.
4. I (Tom) must be confusing the "nick" removed area of fabric with
where one of the other FBI Lab agents cut and removed the frabric in
order to conduct flame analysis of the metallic residue in order to
determine it's composition.
5. I (Henry Heiberger) was sent out of town to Georgia. An
anonymous
telephone call reported having found "Oswald was Here" written in
chalk on the inside of an abandoned railroad box car.
I (Henry Heiberger) was sent down to Georgia to evaluate it and to
obtain samples of the chalk.
Upon returning I was directed to determine who manufactured the
chalk.
6. I (Henry Heiberger) don't know what the hell that was all about.
That was the biggest waste of my time. I (Henry Heiberger)
eventually
determined who manufactured the chalk, but it proved nothing, and we
all knew that Oswald was dead and buried.
Lastly:
I, (Tom Purvis) located and spoke with each and every FBI Agent who
worked in the Spectrographic Analysis Section of the FBI Lab.
Absolutely none, other than Henry Heiberger, stated that they had any
part in the examination of the clothing of JFK.
Thus, Henry Heiberger stated:
a. There was no "nick", but there was an abrasion.
b. The abrasion was X-rayed and found to have metallic residue at
area of the damaged fabric.
c. No additional testing of the clothing of JFK was conducted by him
as he was tasked to determine who made the chalk in an "Oswald was
Here" scenario.
d. If there was a "nick" with fabric missing from the tie, then it
must be where one of the other Lab Technicians completed removal and
testing of the metallic residue which he had found by X-ray.
e. The Laboratory Test Reports which he filled out on the testing
were turned in, and all that I had to do was obtain them and they
would show what testing was conducted as well as the results of the
testing, and who the examiner was.
YET!
Absolutely no other agent admits to having even touched the clothing
worn by JFK.
Ben Holmes
says...
This is simply untrue. Once again, Brokedad is caught in another lie.
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A ragged slitlike hole appoximately 1/2" in length is located in the front of th
shirt 7/6: below the collar button. This hole is through both the button and
buttonhole portions of the shirt due to overlap. This hole has the
characteristics of an exit hole for a projectile. No bullet metal was found in
the fabric surrounding the hole in the front of the shirt.
A small elongated nick was located in the left side of the knot of the tie, Q24,
which may have been caused by the projectile after it had passed through the
front of the shirt.
X-ray and other examinations of the clothing revealed no additional evidence of
value.
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From CD 205, pp.153-154
Brokedad will be COMPLETELY UNABLE to cite anything - as I just did - that would
prove his assertion that the tie was X-rayed, and "revealed metallic residue".
This commission document from the FBI asserts exactly the opposite, that there
was *NO* metallic residue found...
He will undoubtably refuse to respond to this post - since he is establishing a
pattern of running away from citations that prove him a liar.
Untrue. Hoover would have shouted this from the rooftops had it actually been
true.