Rifle Found At The 6th Floor Book Depository

The conclusion was supported by the fact that three spent cartridges fired by the rifle were found on the sixth floor of the texas school book depository building.

Rifle found at the 6th floor book depository.

Speculation the rifle found on the sixth floor of the texas school book depository was identified as a 7 65 mauser by the man who found it deputy constable seymour weitzman. 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. Finding the rifle the warren report tell us on page 645. Was the rifle found on the 6th floor of the texas depository a mauser or a carcano.

And 12 15 p m i looked toward the texas school book depository which faces the south and is located on the corner of elm and houston. About half an hour after the assassination of president kennedy a floor by floor search of the texas school book depository building was commenced by dallas police joined by sheriff s deputies. It was a mauser to all parties involved including a gun collector with specific eyewitness testimony that would preclude it being another weapon until it left the scene of the crime and entered into the hands of third parties out of view of ot. They were mentioned in the book the men on the sixth floor by collum and sample.

The rifle was found by deputy sheriff seymour weitzman and officer gene boone among cartons on the sixth floor. At 12 30 pm there were 2 unidentified men on the 6th floor and 3 employees of the book depository directly below on the 5th floor harold norman bonnie rae williams and james jarman. Still after all this time a mystery surrounds deputy sherriff roger craig and how his testimony of what happened that day would have single handedly derailed the case against lee harvey oswald. Commission finding weitzman the original source of the speculation that the rifle was a mauser and deputy sheriff eugene boone found the weapon.

As the men on the 6th floor moved around dust fell between the gaps in the floor boards and onto the heads of the 3 men on the 5th floor. I think the evidence says no. Only one stranger entered the tsbd before the assassination and he left.