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Offline Walt Cakebread

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #376 on: September 26, 2018, 05:54:58 PM »
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So why then are you so averse to the idea that there could have been more than one weapon in the TSBD?

I'm not averse to the idea..... But there simply isn't a shred of evidence to support that idea.    The evidence indicates that there was only the Mannlicher Carcano found.... 

However both Arnold Rowland and Howard Brennan did report seeing a man holding a HUNTING rifle, so I guess that could be evidence of a rifle other than the Carcano being on the sixth floor.  HOWEVER....That rifle was never found and it most certainly was NOT examined by Roger Craig....And I doubt that the hunting rifle was ever fired from the TSBD....and of course the Carcano was hidden beneath the pallets of books and it was never fired that day.     

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
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Offline John Iacoletti

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #377 on: September 26, 2018, 06:02:33 PM »
I'm not averse to the idea..... But there simply isn't a shred of evidence to support that idea.    The evidence indicates that there was only the Mannlicher Carcano found....

Except for that pesky 7.65 Mauser that Boone, Weitzman, and Craig reported...

Offline Walt Cakebread

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #378 on: September 26, 2018, 06:10:08 PM »
Except for that pesky 7.65 Mauser that Boone, Weitzman, and Craig reported...

They never reported finding a 7.65 mauser..... They saw a tiny bit of the butt of the carcano down in a darkened cave of boxes and thought that it looked like a mauser.....  Actually, Only Weitzman ventured the idea that the carcano was a 7.65 mauser  I suspect he saw the magazine /  trigger guard of the carcano and related that to the only rifle that he was familiar with ...the 7.65 mauser.

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
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Offline Steve Logan

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #380 on: September 26, 2018, 08:05:56 PM »
Captain Fritz picked up the rifle...
Fritz picked up the shells.
Day picked up the rifle.
Handed it to Fritz.
It wasn't a Mauser.
It's on film.

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Offline Steve Logan

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #381 on: September 26, 2018, 08:52:15 PM »
I forgot.

DP crime scene preservation.

That wasn't on film was it?
Only after it was contaminated.

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #382 on: September 26, 2018, 09:09:30 PM »
Right, so who knows what else happened until Alyea arrived.
I guess it's a mystery.

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Offline Walt Cakebread

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Re: Whose Target was General Edwin Walker?
« Reply #383 on: September 27, 2018, 01:42:11 AM »


The rifle APPEARED  to be a 7.65 mauser...IOW.... Weitzman could as well have said... "The rifle looked like a 7.65 mauser   
 to me, But I never examined it there in the building....and later I learned that the rifle was NOT a 7.65 mauser, and I corrected my mistake..