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SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS? cont.
The third document (Commission Exhibit 2011) is an unsigned letter
241112
on FBI letterhead, dated July 7, 1964, Dallas, Texas. It's ostensible purpose
is explained in its opening paragraph:
RE: Lee Harvey Oswald
By letter dated May 20, 1964, the President's Commission re-
quested the tracing of various items of physical evidence.
Pursuant to this request, the following information is
submitted
(the letter then purports to trace various items; bullets, bullet fragments,
shells, clothing, hair, etc. The section relating to !bullet C1" -- which
is
the FBI's designation for the missile the Commission later calls C.E. 399 --
is reproduced below; (underlines added) :
On June 12, 1964, Darrell C. Tomlinson, Maintenance Employee,
Parkland Hospital, Dallas, Texas was shown Exhibit Cl, a rifle slug,
by Special Agent Bardwell D. Odum, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Tomlinson stated it appears to be the same one he found on a hospital
carriage at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963, but he cannot
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positively identify the bullet as the one he found and showed to
Mr. o. P. Wright. At the time he found the bullet, the hospital
carriage was located in the Emergency Unit on the ground floor of
the hospital.
On June 12, 1964, 0. P. Wright, Personnel Officer, Parkland
Hospital, Dallas, Texas, advised Special Agent Bardwell D. Odum
that Exhibit Cl, a rifle slug, showm him at the time of the
interview, looks like the slug found at Parkland Hospital on
November 22, 1963, which he gave to Richard Johnsen, Special Agent
of
the Secret Service. He stated he was not present at the time
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