URGENT 11-29-63 11-21 PM EST JTA TO DIRECTOR AND SACS, DALLAS,
SPRINGFIELD AND BOSTON FROM SAC, PHILADELPHIA /157-916/ 1 P
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, ELEVEN TWENTYTWO
SIXTYTHREE, DALLAS, TEXAS.

RE BOSTON TELETYPES INSTANT, TWELVE THIRTY TWO PM AND SIX TEN PM
AND PH TELETYPE TO BUREAU, DALLAS AND SPRINGFIELD INSTANT FIVE
FORTYEIGHT PM.
BOSTON ADVISES RECORDS OF SMITH AND WESSON INC., SPRINGFIELD,
MASS. SHOW THIRTY EIGHT CALIBER REVOLVER, SN EIGHT NINE THREE
TWO SIX FIVE WAS SHIPPED JANUARY THIRTEEN, NINETEEN FORTY TWO TO US
GOVERNMENT, HARTFORD ORDNANCE, HARTFORD, CONN. AND RECORDS WERE
SHIPPED TO LETTERKENNY ORDNANCE, PHILADELPHIA, PA., IN NINETEEN FIFTY.

RE PH TELETYPE SHOWS THESE RECORDS SENT COMMANDING GENERAL, US
ARMY WEAPONS COMMAND, ROCK ISLAND, ILL, FOR INFO SPRINGFIELD
INSTANT WEAPON FOUND IN PAPER BAG IN IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF
ASSASSINATION AREA.

SPRINGFIELD CONTACT ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL RE FURTHER TRACING OF
WEAPON.

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