Rifle Found At The 6th Floor Book Depository

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.

Rifle found at the 6th floor book depository.

Only one stranger entered the tsbd before the assassination and he left. 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. 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 observed the two rectangular windows at the extreme west end of the texas school book depository next to the top floor were open.

Commission finding weitzman the original source of the speculation that the rifle was a mauser and deputy sheriff eugene boone found the weapon. 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. 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. I think the evidence says no.

They were mentioned in the book the men on the sixth floor by collum and sample. 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. Was the rifle found on the 6th floor of the texas depository a mauser or a carcano. 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. 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. 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.