Post by John Duncan on Jul 31, 2020 21:53:33 GMT -5
The FBI traced the sale of the 40" C2766 rifle found in the TSBD backward and claimed that it was a part of a shipment of 100 rifles weighing 750 lbs. that was sent to Klein's from Crescent Firearms in February, 1963. But that shipment was a shipment of 36" rifles.
In researching for her excellent article on the Oswald rifle, JFK assassination researcher Martha Moyer checked on wooden shipping containers used in transporting weapons, and found that all the containers weighed between 16 and 20 pounds. The 36-inch weapon allegedly ordered by "Hidell" was advertised as weighing 5 1/2 pounds.
The total weight of 100 such weapons would be 550 pounds. Added to the weight range of ten wooden shipping containers the result would be a total of between 710 and 750 pounds.
The delivery receipt from Lifschultz Fast Freight listed the freight as 10 crates/cartons of guns/rifles and listed the weight at 750 lbs.
www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh21/html/WH_Vol21_0359a.htm
Had the shipment been of the 40" rifles, at 7 lbs. each, the total weight including 160-200 lbs. for the crates would have been in the 860-900 lb. range.
Instead, the 750 lbs. gross weight is entirely consistent of shipment of 10 crates at 20 lbs each (200) and 100 rifles at 5.5 lbs. each (550). In other words, the shipment received by Klein's in February, 1963 was indeed a shipment of 36-inch weapons and did NOT include the 40.2 inch rifle that was removed from the TSBD.
www.jfklancer.com/pdf/moyer.pdf
There's a second issue raised by this documentation and that is that there was a 40.2" rifle removed from the TSBD with serial number C2766 and that there was another, a 36" rifle with the same C2766 serial number that was a part of that February '63 shipment of 100 36" rifles to Klein's.
Waldman Exhibit 4 is a control list of the 36" rifles in that Feb. '63 shipment and their serial numbers.
Look at line 836:
www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh21/html/WH_Vol21_0362b.htm
That pretty much destroys the BS story that no two 6.5 rifles had the same serial number. There was one 36" and one 40.2".
That's at least two.
In researching for her excellent article on the Oswald rifle, JFK assassination researcher Martha Moyer checked on wooden shipping containers used in transporting weapons, and found that all the containers weighed between 16 and 20 pounds. The 36-inch weapon allegedly ordered by "Hidell" was advertised as weighing 5 1/2 pounds.
The total weight of 100 such weapons would be 550 pounds. Added to the weight range of ten wooden shipping containers the result would be a total of between 710 and 750 pounds.
The delivery receipt from Lifschultz Fast Freight listed the freight as 10 crates/cartons of guns/rifles and listed the weight at 750 lbs.
www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh21/html/WH_Vol21_0359a.htm
Had the shipment been of the 40" rifles, at 7 lbs. each, the total weight including 160-200 lbs. for the crates would have been in the 860-900 lb. range.
Instead, the 750 lbs. gross weight is entirely consistent of shipment of 10 crates at 20 lbs each (200) and 100 rifles at 5.5 lbs. each (550). In other words, the shipment received by Klein's in February, 1963 was indeed a shipment of 36-inch weapons and did NOT include the 40.2 inch rifle that was removed from the TSBD.
www.jfklancer.com/pdf/moyer.pdf
There's a second issue raised by this documentation and that is that there was a 40.2" rifle removed from the TSBD with serial number C2766 and that there was another, a 36" rifle with the same C2766 serial number that was a part of that February '63 shipment of 100 36" rifles to Klein's.
Waldman Exhibit 4 is a control list of the 36" rifles in that Feb. '63 shipment and their serial numbers.
Look at line 836:
www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh21/html/WH_Vol21_0362b.htm
That pretty much destroys the BS story that no two 6.5 rifles had the same serial number. There was one 36" and one 40.2".
That's at least two.