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How the FBI LOST the fingerprints taken from rifle that killed JFK fifteen years after the president was assassinated, new files reveal
The FBI lost fingerprints taken from the rifle agents found in the Texas School Book Depository after the president was assassinated in Dallas, new files have revealed.
At the time of the investigation in 1963, agents and outside experts concluded that a palm print taken from the barrel off the rifle belonged to Lee Harvey Oswald.
But 15 years later in July 1978, the agency revealed that the fingerprints had gone missing in their vast archives.
Dallas Police say they sent over the original fingerprints to the FBI, and that those prints were never returned to them.
'Unable to discover any pertinent information': The files reveal the scramble to locate the original fingerprints taken from the rifle
