Roger Craig

[Walt Cakebread]

If a Mauser was introduced into the evidence why couldn’t Roger Craig have seen it?

The only place where Craig could have seen a mauser if it had been there was in the NW corner of the sixth floor.... And THAT IS where he claimed that he was only six or eight inches from Captain Fritz and the mauser when he said that he saw "stamped right there on the barrel 7.65 mauser "   Do you believe that the rifle that Weitzman and Boone discovered was a mauser?   Or perhaps you believe that there were TWO rifles there at that time....a carcano and a mauser.

Do you want to discuss this further ?......  I'd really like to try to learn about the mauser.....  But there seems to be very little information about it.

[Walt Cakebread]

Roger Craig made a statement that he saw the inscription "7.65 Mauser" on a recovered rifle.

Roger Craig made a statement that he saw the inscription "7.65 Mauser" on a recovered rifle.

I believe that Roger made that statement many years after the assassination.....  If he had seen a rifle that was stamped 7.65 mauser  it's highly improbable that he would have waited ten years ( or whatever duration) to make that statement.   

[John Iacoletti]

The only place where Craig could have seen a mauser if it had been there was in the NW corner of the sixth floor....

If you're speculating that Weitzman saw a Mauser back at the station, then why couldn't Craig have seen the same one?

[John Iacoletti]

Weitzman said in a sworn affidavit that he was mistaken....He caught only a quick glimpse of the carcano and thought it was a 7.65 mauser.

You of all people should know that swearing an affidavit doesn't make something true.  Roger Craig didn't tow the line and he paid the price.

[John Iacoletti]

Mr. WEITZMAN - And at the time I looked at it, I believe I said it was 2.5 scope on it and I believe I said it was a Weaver but it wasn't; it turned out to be anything but a Weaver, but that was at a glance.

When did Weitzman ever say it was a Weaver?

[Walt Cakebread]

When did Weitzman ever say it was a Weaver?

Don't know..... But I'd guess that he was referring to the mauser examination.....Because I doubt that he could have made that WAG at the time that Lt Day picked up the Carcano FROM THE FLOOR and held it up to Capt Fritz.     I wish I could figger out what the reason that they gave Weitzman a mauser to examine and describe.

It's possible that the senile Fritz became confused when one of his detectives brought the Mauser in from ( the Daltex?) and thought that it was the carcano from the sixth floor......

You may recall that during the early stages of the investigation the authorities were telling reporters that Lee was the leader of a band of communists, so they may have thought that the mauser was the weapon of one of Lee's communist accomplices.     

[Rick Plant]

Roger Craig made a statement that he saw the inscription "7.65 Mauser" on a recovered rifle.

I believe that Roger made that statement many years after the assassination.....  If he had seen a rifle that was stamped 7.65 mauser  it's highly improbable that he would have waited ten years ( or whatever duration) to make that statement.

Roger Craig was always adamant about finding a 7.65 Mauser and not a Mannlicher-Carcano.

Weitzman changed his mind and later stated it was a Mannlicher-Carcano.

Craig talked with a reporter a few years later telling the same story and was fired from the Police Department.