![]() ![]() The vehicle had been flown from Dallas back to Washington that afternoon. Well after midnight, Frazier and his colleagues went to the Secret Service garage to gather evidence from the presidential limousine. 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.’”īy 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. Now 94, memories of events that transpired five decades ago are indelibly etched in his mind.Īfter learning of the assassination, the chief of the FBI Laboratory called in Frazier and two other veteran examiners. ![]() “It was around 11:30 that morning when we first heard about the shooting,” Frazier said recently at his Northern Virginia home. 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. 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. ![]() On that autumn Friday 50 years ago today, when John F.
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