Ten Things That Prove the Ballistic Evidence Was Planted
A summary of points from "The Gun That Didn’t Smoke," in my book, The Deep State in the Heart of Texas
Only two WWII military-use rifles use a clip — the Mannlicher-Carcano and the M-1 Garand (Mausers do not use clips).1 ⁸
The police initially reported the rifle as a Mauser 7.65 rather than a Mannlicher-Carcano 6.52 ⁸
The CIA reported the rifle as a Mauser 7.65 rather than a Mannlicher-Carcano 6.5.3 ⁸
Deputy Constable Seymour Weitzman did not “misidentify” the weapon at the crime scene, Captain Will Fritz did.4 ⁸
Weitzman’s sworn affidavit — given Nov. 23, 1963 — is based on Fritz, Deputy Sheriff Eugene Boone, the Dallas Police, D.A. Henry Wade, and the press.5 ⁸
The Warren Commission’s claim that the rifle was found containing a clip is baseless.6 ⁸
Film taken of the rifle at the crime scene shows no clip. Film taken of the rifle leaving the building shows a clip. Clip or no clip, they knew they had a clip-fed rifle — i.e., one that is impossible to mistake for a Mauser.7 ⁸
Regardless of whether there was a clip, a Mauser, neither, or both, the Warren Report said there was a clip, and it said the rifle was mistaken for a Mauser. Both statements cannot be true.8
When talking about a clip and a Mauser, whether it was either, neither, or both, Lee Harvey Oswald was framed. No combination of the two objects can exist along side the Warren Report’s statements.9
If the rifle did contain a clip, Oswald was framed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ firearm experts, who said he fired the rifle with a bent clip, which is impossible. Clip or not, the crime-scene investigators thought it had to have a shell in the chamber and a clip in the magazine, as with the M-1 Garand. So the ballistic evidence ended up with a bent clip that was not needed at all, and which renders the rifle useless as the murder weapon. The conspirators had to initially call it anything but a clip-fed rifle to avoid questions about clips, and the fact that the rifle could not have been fired in its photographed condition.10
ENDNOTES:
Ian V. Hogg, “The Mannlicher Clip System,” Weapons of World War II, The Encyclopedia of Infantry (London: Bison Books, 1977, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Inc., 1977).
Warren Commission Report (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964) p. 235; hereafter cited as R 235.
CIA Document No. 1367, declassified spring 1976; cited in Bernard Fensterwald, Coincidence or Conspiracy [New York: Zebra Books, 1977] pp. 443-44; Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt (New York: Henry Holt, 1985) pp. 102-03. George Michael Evica, And We Are All Mortal (Hartford, Conn.: University of Hartford, 1978) p. 23.
Testimony of Eugene Boone, Warren Commission Hearings and Evidence (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964, v. XXX) Commission Exhibit 2003, p. 295; cited hereafter as 3H 295.
Boone, Op. cit.; Weitzman affidavit, 24H (Commission Exhibit 2003, p. 63); CIA 1367, Op. cit.
4H 205 (Fritz testimony), 258 (Lieutenant John C. Day testimony); R 555.; Sylvia Meagher, Accessories After the Fact (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967, Vintage Books, 1976, 1992) p. 117.
Richard B. Trask, Pictures of the Pain, Danvers, MA, Yeoman Press, 1994, pp. 531-533, 550.
Walter F. Graf and Richard R. Bartholomew, “The Gun That Didn’t Smoke,” The Deep State in the Heart of Texas: The Texas Connections to the Kennedy Assassination. San Antonio, Tx: Say Something Real Press, 2018, pp. 26-136; Original online publication: http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v1n2/gtds.html
Ibid.
Ibid.