New records reveal how the president’s shirt and jacket were mishandled, withheld, or vanished altogether-before analysis could be completed.
🚪 Fabric Doesn’t Lie-Unless It’s Missing
Clothing is a forensic goldmine in any homicide:
- Entry and exit wound paths
- Gunpowder residue
- Fiber contamination
- Blood spatter trajectory
But in the case of President John F. Kennedy, the chain of custody for his clothing was broken, buried, and officially unresolved.
📁 The Suit: Logged, Then Lost
An FBI property form dated November 22, 1963 logs the transfer of JFK’s:
- Blue wool suit jacket
- White collared shirt
- Dark tie
The same log notes “held for analysis – Quantico.”
But a 2025 DOJ inventory shows that:
“No suit jacket currently held by FBI, NARA, or SS forensic archive. Status: undocumented transfer.”
Even more shocking-no one ever signed it back in.
👔 The Shirt That Changed Colors
Autopsy room photos show a white dress shirt soaked in blood.
An internal FBI evidence memo from Nov. 23 describes:
“Front entry puncture center-left chest. Secondary tear at collar.”
But the version shown to the Warren Commission was:
- Cleaned
- Pressed
- Missing the collar tear
And according to the newly released Dallas Police Property Transfer Log, the shirt was “returned to Secret Service custody for executive archive” in December 1963.
Where is it now?
No one knows.
🧠 The Tie: Cut and Concealed
Medical staff at Parkland Hospital cut JFK’s tie to remove it quickly. This was routine.
But the 2025 archive confirms that:
- The cut tie was never sent to Quantico for GSR testing
- A duplicate tie was used for Warren Commission display purposes
A Navy memo dated Jan. 1964 refers to “optics of reintroducing blood-soaked fabric” and suggests:
“Display item to be selected with dignity in mind.”
🔥 The NARA File That Wasn’t
The 2025 file release includes a document titled “Executive Garment Disposition Summary”-but the entire second page is redacted under a new exemption:
“Protected under Presidential Privacy Provision 14-C (Evidence of Emotional Distress to Surviving Family).”
This is a new clause added in 2024.
Meaning: even now, JFK’s clothing is being withheld on emotional-not forensic-grounds.
🔚 The Fabric of the Crime Unravels
The most direct evidence of where bullets entered and exited the President-his clothing-was:
- Mishandled
- Sanitized
- Replaced
- And, in some cases, completely disappeared
The 2025 records show that in the name of “preservation,”
the evidence that could have confirmed or challenged the official story was wiped away.