Roger Craig

[John Iacoletti]

Iacoletti doesn't have the best deductive reason skills

Defined as agreeing with “Mytton’s” fanciful unsubstantiated claims.

or even at the very least, the ability to provide a reasonable alternate narrative.

Or your irrational narrative wins by default.

Planting 1 rifle is risky enough but why plant two?

I didn’t say anything about planting. Try again.

[John Iacoletti]

I've seen Tom Alyea's video that was filmed just minutes after Day pulled the rifle from beneath the boxes of books.  Day is dusting the rifle behind the brightly sunlit window and there is not an iota of doubt that the rifle is a model 91/38 Mannlicher Carcano.

Bull. It’s a blurry, grainy video. You gonna claim you can read the serial number too?

[John Iacoletti]

Boone and Weitzman cleared it up.

Right. “Just a glance” after which they described it in detail.

[John Mytton]

Right. “Just a glance” after which they described it in detail.

What, do you think the rifle was passed around like a peace pipe? LOL!

JohnM

[Walt Cakebread]

What, do you think the rifle was passed around like a peace pipe? LOL!

JohnM

Funny that you would compare the rifle to a peace pipe...... Because if that rifle had been fired less than an hour prior to it's discovery the smoke from the firing would have been sealed in the barrel by the live round, and then when Fritz "uncorked the barrel by removing the live round the smell would have been quite apparent by those in the proximity.   But Nobody reported any smell of gunpowder....

[Paul J Cummings]

Given Roger Craig's credentials I believe him 100%. HOWEVER I think most people don't go into much about the driver. I guess it's me just believing in Craig but the bigger story IMO is the driver. I believe some of the witnesses describe as Latin heavy set.

[Jim Brunsman]

Of course Chapman would find some way to try to discredit Craig, since he was a dedicated and thorough law enforcement official. Craig reported several things that are inconvenient to the lone nutters. Recall how he carefully describes finding the Mauser, how Weitzmann, an expert in firearms identified the weapon and even pointed to "7.65 Mauser" printed on the barrel. Craig also saw Oswald running down the hill and entering the Rambler and led the search in the railroad yards. That's a trifecta Chapman is never going to accept. So many dishonest lone nutters...

[Dan O'meara]

Roger Craig's claim about the Mauser is refuted by Tom Alyea's film.
Alyea films the rifle in it's initial hiding place, being brought out by Day and then dusted for prints.
Craig states he sees "Mauser" stamped on the barrel after it is brought out of it's hiding place.
The rifle is a Mannlicher Carcano and not a Mauser.