This is not freedom of information

Volume IV states that William Nadeau provided the primary eyewitness account for the official narrative and that his statements contain multiple irreconcilable physical contradictions. It records his claims that he was standing only “one foot away,” that Zioncheck “ran around the desk,” “brushed past” him, and “dove headfirst” through the open window, and that Zioncheck went through the window in one fluid motion without waiting to see if it was open.

The same chapter examines the official death-scene photograph (WSU Libraries Digital Collections). Volume IV’s key observations: Nadeau stands in the doorway looking directly at the camera, his expression notably calm and composed, with no visible distress, shock, or grief; Zioncheck’s hat and coat are already laid out on the floor in a dramatic arrangement, contradicting accounts that Nadeau was “reaching for the hat” when Zioncheck suddenly jumped; the photo has the appearance of being taken after the fact for press purposes; and Nadeau was Rubye Nix Zioncheck’s brother-in-law.

Volume IV concludes that the image suggests the scene was managed for public consumption rather than documented in the immediate aftermath of a traumatic event.

Read Chapter 8 · Volume IV, PDF p. 11 ↗

Volume IV places Nadeau’s proximity claim against a calculated movement timeline. The minimum realistic time it assigns to the described sequence — initiation, run with direction change, posture transition, and launch — is 2.7–3.8+ seconds in a cluttered fifth-floor office. In that interval, the volume argues, even moderate reaction time places a person in immediate physical-contact range well before Zioncheck could reach the window and execute the required posture drop through a 27–33 inch sash opening.

Chapter 6 repeats the cornerstone claim: Nadeau said he was standing only one foot away and “missed him by a foot.” Volume IV calls that claim irreconcilable with the documented constraints.

Official narrative vs. physical reality · Volume IV, PDF p. 5 ↗

The 1-foot proximity contradiction · Volume IV, PDF p. 8 ↗

Volume V identifies Vic (Victor Anthony / Antoni Zajaczek, maternal cousin) as the unplanned witness who, in its account, saw the body being positioned while leaving the Alaskan Cigar Store late on August 7, 1936. The chapter states that he knew William Nadeau personally, was threatened on the spot, and stayed silent. It then lists a complete archival void after that date: no marriage record, death certificate, obituary, census entry, business records, or further newspaper or directory mentions.

The same volume’s named-participants chapter describes William Nadeau as brother-in-law: helped move the body, silenced Rubye, sold the false narrative, with an account that Volume IV treats as physically contradictory.

The two-building discussion remains on the main paper: Vic’s workplace in the old Arctic Club / Morrison Hotel; Marion’s office in the newer Arctic Building.

Two Arctic buildings, on the main paper ↗

Volume IV compares the photographed placement of Marion’s hat and coat on the floor with the account of Nadeau reaching for the hat as Marion moved toward the window. Volume I is cited on the main paper for the writing account: Nadeau found Marion writing shortly before the reported jump.

Those plates belong beside one another. They are not replaced here with a doorway photograph the supplied volumes do not reproduce as a standalone image. The WSU death-scene photograph is discussed in Volume IV; the facsimile above is the volume’s own chapter page.

Writing account · Volume I, PDF p. 18 ↗

The supplied request asks for records pertaining to Marion Anthony Zioncheck, also known as Marjan Antoni Zajaczek, born 5 December 1900 (or 1901), U.S. Representative from Washington, died 7 August 1936. It lists the name variants and asks especially for investigative files, surveillance or monitoring records, correspondence, reports on his work in Congress (especially 1935–1937), and records concerning the death. The timeframe on the plate is 1930–1950.

The waiver plate is published once. It states a non-commercial historical-research request and a public-interest claim: the records concern a sitting member of Congress from 1933 until the death on 7 August 1936, and federal interest or investigative activity related to him. Duplicate waiver screenshots from the same packet are not shown.

The deceased-subject fields on the same request name Marion (Marjan) and Zioncheck (Zajaczek). They are a separate beat from the waiver text. The phone toolbar that covered the middle-name row is not part of the plate.

The letterhead is the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C. Dated 31 July 2026. Subject as printed: ZIONCHECK, MARION ANTHONY, on or after 1930 to 1950. Request No. 1750194-000 as the plate shows it. The Bureau states that a main-entity search of the Central Records System found no records it could identify as responsive, and that the request is being closed. Glomar language on third-party records and the usual addendum pointers remain on the plate. Requester name, mailing address, telephone numbers, and agency email / street-contact blocks are blacked out.

The continuation keeps the appeal path — dispute resolution, OGIS as ombudsman, an administrative appeal under 28 C.F.R. § 16.8(a) — without publishing those offices’ street addresses, phones, or mailboxes. The signature block is Christina Driver, Acting Section Chief, Record/Information Dissemination Section. That is a present-day no-records closing. It is not a release of the surveillance files Volume IV and Volume V still ask for. Control stayed on the institution’s side of the desk. That is not freedom of information.

Inquiry 21 on the main paper ↗