This is a 10K gold pendant issued by the FBI to Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt in 1951 measuring 1" in length. On the front it reads, "FIDELITY-BRAVERY-INTEGRITY", "1908", along with a design of a sword and weighted balance scale, representing justice. On the back of the pendant it reads: "FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION / L.L. SHANEYFELT / IN RECOGNITION OF / 10 YEARS FAITHFUL / AND LOYAL / SERVICE / 1951 / 10K" This pin was from the collection of Father Ron Hoskins, who was an assassinologist and collected many items, including this pin, that related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This pin is in very fine condition.

In 1963, Shaneyfelt was the Photographic Specialist for the Bureau and participated in the analysis of both the Zapruder film in addition to other photos taken during the assassination of JFK. Shaneyfelt identified his FBI duties as:

"I assist in the training of our agents in photographic matters, I have worked in photographic work in the FBI almost entirely since I have been there, in early years as a photographer and as a Special Agent Document Examiner, and I handled photographic assignments. I was a newspaper photographer before entering the FBI in 1940 for approximately three years. My present duties in the laboratory for the past several years have been the examination of photographic evidence submitted by local law enforcement agencies as well as our own officers and an example would be the comparison of film recovered from a victim of a theft of his camera with the camera recovered perhaps in a pawn shop or from a suspect, to identify that film as having been exposed in that camera, that is a photograph to determine whether or not they are composites or fraudulent or fake photographs, things of that type...."

Upon the assassination of JFK, and the lack of understanding of the crime scene, the study of the available film and photos became of paramount importance. By this time, the level of sophistication to analyze film was of such detail that Shaneyfelt was even able to determine the speed of JFK's limousine at the time of the "shots" based on camera used, he explains his method in this New York Times interview:

Q: Did you examine the Zapruder film and ascertain the average speed of the President's limousine on Elm Street yourself, sir?
A: Yes, I did, yes.
Q: How did you go about this, sir, what was the result of your examination?
A: This complete finding was based on a determination first of the average speed of the Zapruder camera, and a determination of the speed with which the sequence of events took place based on the speed of the camera, then during the re-enactment, measurements were made on Elm Street from the specific frame numbers, once they were ascertained, and I took the frame, the frames from Frame 161 to Frame 313 and determined -- it took the distance, computed this base don the number of frames involved, the speed at which the Zapruder camera operated, found that the average speed over that period as between 161, Frame 161 and Frame 313 was 11.2 miles per hour.
Q: What was the speed of the Zapruder camera as you found, sir, when you examined it?
A: The average speed of the camera was 18.3 frames per second.
Q: How did you ascertain this, sir?
A: Using Mr. Zapruder's camera, I loaded it with film and photographed a clock that had a sweep second hand. I then, by examining the film after it was processed, under the microscope I could see when the second had was on right up at 12:00 o'clock and counted the frames until the hand got down and made a full circle, giving the number of frames per minute and breaking that down to the number of frames per second. This was done on successive rolls of film and averaged throughout the film, and motion picture cameras almost all slow down toward the end of the run when the spring, this was a spring-wind camera, and when the spring runs down, there is a tailing off. I average the speed without taking the tailing off into accoun