Reply #5: Did I get sorted by the last post?

[Bolo Boffin]

My goodness.

Well, the evidence in those two links are thus far underwhelming. After the writer gets through crying about long books and small fonts (which seems to take forever - in small font, no less!), he or she finally gets around to the rifle evidence. The only citation for Bugliosi about the misidentification of the rifle as a Mauser is page 150, but the RH index also cites page 55 of the notes, where Bugliosi speaks more about the misidentification issue, pointing out:

Although conspiracy theorists continue to yap that the rifle found on the sixth floor was not a 6.5-millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano, but some other weapon, such as a 7.65-millimeter Mauser (which one of the officers who discovered it thought it was), there can be no question the rifle was a 6.5-millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano. All of the evidence, including photographic and eyewitness, proves this. Indeed, photographer Tom Alyea of WFAA-TV in Dallas was on the sixth floor at the time and filmed the recovery of the rifle. Two of the frames from his film, one in particular, clearly show the rifle was a 6.5-millimeter Mannlicher-Carcano.

So the only rifle actually recovered at the scene was the Mannlicher-Carcano. Anyone saying it was a Mauser was wrong. There was no Mauser recovered at the scene.

Yawn.