Dallas police learn that Lee Harvey Oswald is a member of a pro-Castro group known as "The Fair Play for Cuba Committee" which advocates restoration of trade between the US & Cuba.
They also learn that while passing out pro-Cuba leaflets in New Orleans on August 9, 1963, Oswald was involved in an altercation which led to his arrest.
They learn that he went to work as an order-filler at the Texas School Book Depository on October 15, 1963.
Texas School Book Depository
Dallas, Texas
Photo by Jeanne boleyn (2006)
Oswald is given a "paraffin" test which the Dallas police believe will show whether or not he has fired a gun recently.
The test results are negative on his cheeks & positive on his hands.*
While the police crime lab finds Oswald's finger & hand prints on some of the boxes in the "sniper's nest", they find none on the rifle.
*Based only on the results of this test, Oswald might have shot Tippit with a revolver but not JFK with a rifle.
Warren Commission Exhibit 141
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