You're the Mannlicher expert, you do it.
As far as I'm concerned Oswald was a patsy and provided the Mannlicher not knowing it was going to be used to frame him. That's the point of this rifle - to frame Oswald.
Maybe the Mannlicher was the murder weapon but the shooter wasn't in any particular rush and had plenty of time to stow it in the boxes.
Maybe it was already in the boxes when the shooter used a proper rifle to do the job.
Either way, it doesn't really matter to the overall picture once it is accepted Oswald didn't do the shooting.
You're the Mannlicher expert, you do it.Thank you for acknowledging that I'm no neophyte about the mannlicher carcano. And I've been trying for years to open researchers eyes to the FACT that the rifle was NOT hastily cast aside after the shooting. I'm sure that the carcano was already in that hiding place beneath the pallet of books at the time the shots were fired. So obviously the carcano was not the murder weapon...Furthermore I don't believe any shots were fire from the sixth floor of the TSBD ....Haward Brennan swore that he saw a man STANDING behind a sixth floor window and the man was dressed like a security guard or deputy sheriff and he was aiming a rifle out of the window, but Brennan did not see the rifle fired.
the shooter wasn't in any particular rush and had plenty of time to stow it in the boxes.When the WC re-enacted what they had concluded was Lee Oswald's action's They had Secret Service agent John Howlet play the part of Lee Oswald, and Howlett spent about 5 seconds in stuffing a light piece of 1X 4 lumber in a crack between the boxes before hastily departing down the stairs.
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Howlett arrived at the second floor lunch room just 1 second ahead of officer Marrion Baker ...If the shooter ( Howlett) had actually hidden the 9 pound carcano beneath that pallet of books AFTER the shooting, he would never have reached the second floor lunchroom ahead of Baker and Truly. Howlett would probably still have been on the stairs and would have passed Baker and Truly as he descended the stairs.