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  • Collection: The Investigators

This is a 62-page FBI folder from the Warren Commission. It relays information about Fleming being a key witness to the assassination of President JFK.

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Sorrels describes his interview with Lee Harvey Oswald

Many people who were involved in the President's assassination whether it was the investigation or just being a bystander were affected later in their lives. Many people suffered trauma from this event and it traveled with them till their dying day.…

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After J.C. Day's involvement in the investigation with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Day continued as a police officer at the Dallas Police Department. Day stayed with the police department until 1977 when he retired and then…

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12:45pm Day is working in the basement of City Hall
12:50pm Day goes back to his office in City Hall on the 3rd floor after hearing rumors about the President getting shot
12:55pm Day received a call from the police department to show up to 411 Elm…

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Mr. BELIN. Who held the rifle while you looked at it with the glass?
Mr. DAY. I held it.
Mr. BELIN. In one hand?
Mr. DAY. One hand, using the glass with the other.
Mr. BELIN. How did you try to process the live round for prints?
Mr. DAY. With…

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J.C. Day was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He attended from Sunset High School where he graduated. After graduation Day worked various jobs until applying to the Dallas Police Department where he settled for a dependable job in 1940. Shortly…

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"The Dallas Morning News" publishes route of the presidential motorcade.

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photograph of Forrest Sorrels joint headstone with wife Agnes Silvey after his death in 1993

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Still from the 2013 movie Parkland that dramatized event following JFK being shot, surrounding the activity within the Parkland Hospital

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Mr. BELIN. I am now going to hand you No. 737 and ask you to state if you know what this is.
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir. This is the rifle found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository November 22, 1963.
Mr. BELIN. Who took that picture?…

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Lieutenant J.C. Day was heavily involved in the investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald's alleged assassination of President John. F. Kennedy. As a lieutenant of the Dallas Police Department, Day played a key role in the investigation that took place at…

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In Lieutenant J.C. Day's Warren Commission Testimony, Day spoke a lot about the cardboard boxes in which he investigated and took the fingerprints of Lee Harvey Oswald.

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In his testimony Day states:
Mr. DAY. I placed a piece of transparent tape, ordinary Scotch tape, which we use for fingerprint work, over the developed palmprint.
Mr. BELIN. And then what did you do?
Mr. DAY. I tore the cardboard from the box…

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Mr. BELIN. Were you on duty on November 22, 1963?
Mr. DAY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Could you describe your activities from about noon on of that day?
Mr. DAY. I was in the identification bureau at the city hall. About a quarter of one I was in the…

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