![]() ![]() ![]() One of the two reporters on the floor at the time – Tom Alyea/WFAA-TV and Kent Biffle/Dallas Morning News – and one of them got word out to the newsroom and that’s how the Mauser name first appeared. ![]() “The rifle was misidentified by Sheriff’s deputies as a Mauser while it was still on the floor partly hidden by boxes. Gary Mack of the 6th Floor Museum, an institution that does not engage the JFK conspiracy debate, says that the Manlicher-Carcano was simply misidentified. Confusion was obviously the order of the day. So the implication is that Dallas law enforcement made the Mauser - and evidence of second gunman - disappear.īut as Osanic’s first day footage makes clear there were a wide variety of TV reports about the type of rifle found. ![]() News footage shows officers handling an Italian-made Mannlicher Carcano rifle and no German-made Mauser was ever introduced as evidence. One deputy sheriff, Seymour Weitzman, wrote in his report the next day that he found a 7.65 Mauser and another deputy, Roger Craig, said that is was a Mauser. The most debatable point concerns the alleged discovery of a Mauser rifle in the TSBD. The piece makes some good and indisputable points - this area was not controlled after the shooting the photographs that appear in the Warren Commission do not depict the space as it was found after the assassination the boxes and the bullet shells were rearranged for the purposes of photography. The YouTube episode focuses on the so-called “sniper’s nest,” the area next to the 6th floor window of the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) from which Lee Oswald allegedly fired a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle wounding Governor John Connally and killing President Kennedy. In this installment of the often excellent “50 Reasons for 50 Years,” Len Osanic says yes. ![]()
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