Post by Rob Caprio on Aug 17, 2022 14:04:35 GMT -5
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DCA Film (Rifle seen at the end of it):
The alleged murder weapon in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) was supposedly a 1940 Italian rifle known as a Mannlicher-Carcano (M-C). It was allegedly found in the Texas School Board Depository (TSBD) on November 22, 1963.
There is a lot of evidence that shows a Mauser was found first inside the TSBD as well. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison mentioned a third rifle that he learned about during his investigation in the JFK assassination.
Here is what Jim Garrison wrote about the rifle observed in a scene in the Mentesana film that he viewed.
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A film taken by Dallas Cinema Associates, an independent film company, showed a scene of the Book Depository shortly after assassination. Police officers on the fire escape were bringing down a rifle from the roof above the sixth floor with the tender care you might given an infant. When the policeman reached the ground, a high-ranking officer held the rifle high for everyone to see. The camera zoomed in for a close-up. Beneath the picture was the legend, “The Assassin’s Rifle". When I saw the film, I noted that this rifle had no sight mounted on it. Thus it could not have been either the Carcano or the vanished Mauser, both of which had sights. (Jim Garrison, “On The Trail Of The Assassins", p. 99)
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This rifle has never been seen publicly since the day of the assassination. A number of Warren Commission (WC) defenders have claimed that it was Dallas Police Department (DPD) shotgun that was brought down from the roof, but why would there be one on the roof of the TSBD?
The portion that Garrison describes is no longer in the extant version of the film online as you will not see the high-ranking officer holding a rifle aloft or the legend that reads, “The Assassin's Rifle”.
What you can see of the weapon definitely looks a rifle to me as the barrel appears too long to be a shotgun in my opinion.
There is corroborating evidence for the film that Garrison viewed as well. Forth-Worth Telegram reporter Thayer Waldo questioned a secretary about the rifle on the roof. She had been privy to the police officers' discussion and told Thayer the police found the rifle on "the roof of the TSBD."
Mr. WALDO. … I had talked to my desk at the Star-Telegram, and then I noticed a little flurry of activity, and as I say, during this time several of the high ranking officers, none of whom I knew by name at that time, had come in, and I asked a girl who had been standing with them in Captain King's office, as I recall, just a few minutes, and then came out, "What's going on?" and her answer was, "They found a rifle." I asked, "Where?" and she said, "On the roof of the School Book Depository Building." Of course, I stress this is secondhand information. She is giving it from what she heard from a high ranking official who undoubtedly was told by somebody else. In any case, that information was telephoned to my newspaper and I believe was used in at least one edition. Later it was officially stated, of course, that the rifle had been found on the sixth floor. (Vol. XV, p. 590)
Whatever happened to this rifle? If Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) has acted alone as claimed, why did the Mauser rifle and the roof rifle have to disappear?
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DCA Film (Rifle seen at the end of it):
The alleged murder weapon in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) was supposedly a 1940 Italian rifle known as a Mannlicher-Carcano (M-C). It was allegedly found in the Texas School Board Depository (TSBD) on November 22, 1963.
There is a lot of evidence that shows a Mauser was found first inside the TSBD as well. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison mentioned a third rifle that he learned about during his investigation in the JFK assassination.
Here is what Jim Garrison wrote about the rifle observed in a scene in the Mentesana film that he viewed.
Quote on
A film taken by Dallas Cinema Associates, an independent film company, showed a scene of the Book Depository shortly after assassination. Police officers on the fire escape were bringing down a rifle from the roof above the sixth floor with the tender care you might given an infant. When the policeman reached the ground, a high-ranking officer held the rifle high for everyone to see. The camera zoomed in for a close-up. Beneath the picture was the legend, “The Assassin’s Rifle". When I saw the film, I noted that this rifle had no sight mounted on it. Thus it could not have been either the Carcano or the vanished Mauser, both of which had sights. (Jim Garrison, “On The Trail Of The Assassins", p. 99)
Quote off
This rifle has never been seen publicly since the day of the assassination. A number of Warren Commission (WC) defenders have claimed that it was Dallas Police Department (DPD) shotgun that was brought down from the roof, but why would there be one on the roof of the TSBD?
The portion that Garrison describes is no longer in the extant version of the film online as you will not see the high-ranking officer holding a rifle aloft or the legend that reads, “The Assassin's Rifle”.
What you can see of the weapon definitely looks a rifle to me as the barrel appears too long to be a shotgun in my opinion.
There is corroborating evidence for the film that Garrison viewed as well. Forth-Worth Telegram reporter Thayer Waldo questioned a secretary about the rifle on the roof. She had been privy to the police officers' discussion and told Thayer the police found the rifle on "the roof of the TSBD."
Mr. WALDO. … I had talked to my desk at the Star-Telegram, and then I noticed a little flurry of activity, and as I say, during this time several of the high ranking officers, none of whom I knew by name at that time, had come in, and I asked a girl who had been standing with them in Captain King's office, as I recall, just a few minutes, and then came out, "What's going on?" and her answer was, "They found a rifle." I asked, "Where?" and she said, "On the roof of the School Book Depository Building." Of course, I stress this is secondhand information. She is giving it from what she heard from a high ranking official who undoubtedly was told by somebody else. In any case, that information was telephoned to my newspaper and I believe was used in at least one edition. Later it was officially stated, of course, that the rifle had been found on the sixth floor. (Vol. XV, p. 590)
Whatever happened to this rifle? If Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) has acted alone as claimed, why did the Mauser rifle and the roof rifle have to disappear?