Oswald photo a fake — expert

Press, 8 March 1978, Page 9

Oswald photo a fake — expert

NZPA-Reuter London A. Scottish forensic expert said yesterday that a muchpublicised photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding the rifle with which he was presumed to have assassinated (President John Kennedy was ; actually a fake. I Mr Malcolm Thompson, former head of the | Edinburgh police laboratory I and photographic unit, was I given the photograph by the I British Broadcasting Corporjation for comment as part j of a television programme (on recent new information | surrounding Kennedy’s mur[der in 1963 in Dallas .Texas.

n ; The photograph, purportedly taken by Oswald’s •t Russian-born wife, was submitted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to e the commission headed by e Chief Justice Earl Warren investigating the assassinad tion. s Mr Thompson told a Reuter reporter the photograph i, was a fake. He said a photoe graph of Oswald’s head was y attached to someone else’s s body in the photograph. e He said he would be will- •- ing to go to Washington to •t testify before the Congrese sional committee that is n conducting a new ini’- vestigation into the assas- . sination.