The JFK Assassination: Fromer FBI Agent Recalls His Role In The Investigation

The FBI released the below piece yesterday:

On that autumn Friday 50 years ago today, when John F. Kennedy’s motorcade was turning onto Dealey Plaza in Dallas just beneath the Texas School Book Depository, Robert Frazier was at work at FBI Headquarters in Washington. The 44-year-old special agent—the Bureau’s lead firearms and ballistics examiner—had no idea that he was about to be given the most important assignment of his career.

“It was around 11:30 that morning when we first heard about the shooting,” Frazier said recently at his Northern Virginia home. Now 94, memories of events that transpired five decades ago are indelibly etched in his mind.

After learning of the assassination, the chief of the FBI Laboratory called in Frazier and two other veteran examiners. Frazier recalls the chief’s instructions: “He said, ‘I want each of you men to make separate comparisons and examinations, and then compare your notes and see if they agree.’”

By that evening, as a shocked country tried to comprehend Kennedy’s assassination, FBI agents and other federal officers had already begun delivering evidence to the FBI Laboratory—then located in Washington—including the rifle that Lee Harvey Oswald used to kill the president.

You can read the rest of the piece and watch a video clip via the below link:

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/november/the-jfk-assassination-former-agent-recalls-role-in-investigation/the-jfk-assassination-former-agent-recalls-role-in-investigation?utm_campaign=email-Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=fbi-top-stories&utm_content=276842