Rifle Found At The 6th Floor Book Depository

They were mentioned in the book the men on the sixth floor by collum and sample.

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. The mc rifle and probably hid it on the 6th floor there seems there were 3 people that came in through the loading dock door and went up the back stairs to the 6th floor. 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. Commission finding weitzman the original source of the speculation that the rifle was a mauser and deputy sheriff eugene boone found the weapon.

Only one stranger entered the tsbd before the assassination and he left. In this installment of the often excellent 50 reasons for 50 years len osanic says yes. 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. 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.

I think the evidence says no. 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.

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. Was the rifle found on the 6th floor of the texas depository a mauser or a carcano. 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.