Post by Gil Jesus on Jun 19, 2021 9:38:02 GMT -5
The 3 Carcanos
by Gil Jesus ( 2021 )
Much has been argued over the years about the rifle found in the Texas School Book Depository having belonged to the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald. Most of the argument for is founded on the fact that the Depository rifle bore the serial number C2766 and a rifle with that same serial number was shipped to Oswald. It is also founded on the premise that the rifle was the only one produced with that serial number and no other rifle bore that number.
That, my friends, is not the case.
The government's own evidence proves that that is not the case. The government produced evidence that at least two 6.5 Mannlicher Carcanos, one a 36" Troop Special and the other a 40" Short Rifle had the same number. And a third ironically showed up some years later in a book authored by an author known to have supported the conclusion that Oswald was guilty.
Let's take the government's two C2766s first.
The first is the Depository rifle found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository immediately after the shooting. It was a 40" Short Rifle bearing the serial number C2766.
Everyone can agree on that.
Then there's the 36" Troop Special that was allegedly ordered by Oswald from Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago and shipped to "A.Hidell" at P.O. Box 2915 in Dallas, Texas. Waldman exhibit 7 is the shipping Bill of Lading that indicates that the rifle shipped was a 36" rifle bearing the serial number C2766.The red circle is the Klein's stock number for the rifle. The C20-T750 is for the 36" rifle with the scope mounted in-house.
The 40" rifle had a different stock number and (as the HSCA Hearings showed ) its scope was NOT mounted in house.
The "Oswald did it" crowd will argue that Klein's simply ran out of 36" rifles and shipped the 40" rifles in their stead. In addition, they shipped it with a stock number that indicated it was a 36" rifle with a scope mounted in-house.
To that I say, show me the evidence to prove that.
If someone has evidence to prove that Klein's shipped a 40" rifle, stock number C20-750 and bearing serial number C2766 to Post Office Box 2915 in Dallas on March 20, 1963, please present it and I'll accept it.
If anybody has ANY evidence that Klein's shipped a 40" rifle to ANYBODY who ordered a 36" rifle in the spring of 1963, I'd like to see it.
Otherwise, the evidence shows there were two 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcanos, one a 36" rifle, the other a 40" rifle with the same serial number, C2766.
But that's not all.
Warrennati apologist John Lattimer wrote in his book, Kennedy and Lincoln, on page 250, that he did some tests with a 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcano with the serial number C2766.
That's three 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcanos with the serial number C2766.
CE 2562 is a January 1964 memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. On page 15, he is verifying the exact point I'm making: that there was more than one rifle with the same serial number.
by Gil Jesus ( 2021 )
Much has been argued over the years about the rifle found in the Texas School Book Depository having belonged to the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald. Most of the argument for is founded on the fact that the Depository rifle bore the serial number C2766 and a rifle with that same serial number was shipped to Oswald. It is also founded on the premise that the rifle was the only one produced with that serial number and no other rifle bore that number.
That, my friends, is not the case.
The government's own evidence proves that that is not the case. The government produced evidence that at least two 6.5 Mannlicher Carcanos, one a 36" Troop Special and the other a 40" Short Rifle had the same number. And a third ironically showed up some years later in a book authored by an author known to have supported the conclusion that Oswald was guilty.
Let's take the government's two C2766s first.
The first is the Depository rifle found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository immediately after the shooting. It was a 40" Short Rifle bearing the serial number C2766.
Everyone can agree on that.
Then there's the 36" Troop Special that was allegedly ordered by Oswald from Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago and shipped to "A.Hidell" at P.O. Box 2915 in Dallas, Texas. Waldman exhibit 7 is the shipping Bill of Lading that indicates that the rifle shipped was a 36" rifle bearing the serial number C2766.The red circle is the Klein's stock number for the rifle. The C20-T750 is for the 36" rifle with the scope mounted in-house.
The 40" rifle had a different stock number and (as the HSCA Hearings showed ) its scope was NOT mounted in house.
The "Oswald did it" crowd will argue that Klein's simply ran out of 36" rifles and shipped the 40" rifles in their stead. In addition, they shipped it with a stock number that indicated it was a 36" rifle with a scope mounted in-house.
To that I say, show me the evidence to prove that.
If someone has evidence to prove that Klein's shipped a 40" rifle, stock number C20-750 and bearing serial number C2766 to Post Office Box 2915 in Dallas on March 20, 1963, please present it and I'll accept it.
If anybody has ANY evidence that Klein's shipped a 40" rifle to ANYBODY who ordered a 36" rifle in the spring of 1963, I'd like to see it.
Otherwise, the evidence shows there were two 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcanos, one a 36" rifle, the other a 40" rifle with the same serial number, C2766.
But that's not all.
Warrennati apologist John Lattimer wrote in his book, Kennedy and Lincoln, on page 250, that he did some tests with a 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcano with the serial number C2766.
That's three 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcanos with the serial number C2766.
CE 2562 is a January 1964 memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. On page 15, he is verifying the exact point I'm making: that there was more than one rifle with the same serial number.