The Position of the Bolt on the MC

[Walt Cakebread]

Oh...before you ask, here's photographic evidence both stacks were on pallets.



The red arrows subtly indicate the pallet in question.

This photo beautifully illustrates the impossibility of Weitzman seeing the rifle if it had been sandwiched between the boxes on the left....   Weitzman said that he shined his flashlight beneath the pallet "B" and saw the rifle on the floor.

[Dan O'meara]

The middle photo is purportedly the view from the top of the stairs looking south......The row of boxes ran east /west that would have had the rifle on the south side of those boxes....  The official tale says that Lee Harrrrrrvey Ossssswald ( Boooooo Hissss) dashed to the stairs from the east side, (Left in the photo)  and with his ex-ray vision he spotted the gap in the boxes on the back side of that row of boxes, then with his superman grip he held the nine pound rifle in his left hand , by the butt and jammed it in that gap between the boxes.

But, when taken at face value, the evidence regarding who was on the 6th floor just before, during and after the shooting excludes Oswald as the shooter.
So Oswald didn't dash across the 6th floor.
He did not stash the MC away
He did not dash downstairs to his rendezvous with Baker and Truly
In this scenario, the MC is no longer required as the murder weapon, it is nothing more than a prop to frame Oswald.
Who was probably in the Domino Room while all this was going down.

[Dan O'meara]

This photo beautifully illustrates the impossibility of Weitzman seeing the rifle if it had been sandwiched between the boxes on the left....   Weitzman said that he shined his flashlight beneath the pallet "B" and saw the rifle on the floor.

No it doesn't Walt.
It shows that it was perfectly possible to see the barrel of the rifle while looking through the pallet.

[Walt Cakebread]

No it doesn't Walt.
It shows that it was perfectly possible to see the barrel of the rifle while looking through the pallet.

Please explain how Seymour Weitzman could have seen the rifle ( green arrow) when he was east of the pallet in the photo ( above "A" in the photo)  Wouldn't the boxes sitting on the floor to the left (north) of the "B" stack obstructed his view ?

[Dan O'meara]

Please explain how Seymour Weitzman could have seen the rifle ( green arrow) when he was east of the pallet in the photo ( above "A" in the photo)  Wouldn't the boxes sitting on the floor to the left (north) of the "B" stack obstructed his view ?

No

[Walt Cakebread]

No

I'm not sure what the three ( sometimes only two ) 2"X4" pieces that the slats of the pallet are nailed to are called.... I'll call them "struts" ....

As is obvious in the photo ( middle photo) the struts are on an east/ west orientation, and the slats run N/ S   So the only direction  Seymour Weitzman could have shined his flashlight was from east to west......And that means he was on the east side (SE )of the place where the official DPD in situ photo shows the rifle jammed between the boxes.  His field of vision to the rifle would have been blocked by the boxes on the flor on the south side of the rifle.

Therefore Weitzman shined his flashlight west ( toward Boone's feet) and he saw the rifle .....

 

[Zeon Mason]

Follow up ? About the cross member slats; are there any 1x4 crossmember slats on the BOTTOM of the east west running 2x4 frame that would raise the pallet about 1/4th inch up from the floor plane?

If yes then it’s possible to see north to south under the pallet and not be restrained to only a possible 45 degree diagonal LOS form the SE corner towards the NW corner of the pallet.

If no bottom slats then the east west running 2x4s are resting flush to the ground plane and there is no gap to see thru from the North side of the pallet looking south. The LOS available would be restricted to the 45 degre diagonal

If it’s 45 angle case, there is NO LOS possible from SE corner of the pallet thru to the NW corner of the pallet.That  line would be obstructed by the 2 box stack that  green and orange arrows  passing by to the right side which I mistakenly thought were intersecting a box but which Dan says is just some paper hanging over to the left of that 2 box high stack.