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In reply to the discussion: Those who demand that everyone "just ACCEPT that Oswald did it"... [View all]stopbush
(24,785 posts)First off, the paraffin test to his cheek was negative. The paraffin test to his hands was positive.
But none of that means anything, because at the time Oswald was given the paraffin tests, the FBI had already determined that such tests were too inconsistent and gave too many false positives to be used as evidence in court.
Paraffin tests were performed to try to intimidate witnesses into believing the police had the goods on them. It's sad that the Dallas PD engaged in such tactics in this case, even though it was still SOP in many places back then, the same way lie detector tests are still given to suspects, even though the results of lie detector tests have been banned as evidence in military courts, while the SCOTUS has set standards that leave admission of lie detector test results to the discretion of the presiding judge in many cases.
The rest of your post is speculation, or CTist intellectual masturbation, to be more precise.