Question:.... Mauser or Carcano? At this late date we should have reached a firm unanimous conclusion about what kind of rifle was found buried beneath the pallet of books in the NW corner of the sixth floor. I believe that we will never have 100% in agreement.... but at this late date and the solid photographic evidence available ( Alyea film and many others) we should be near 100% in agreement about that rifle.
If we can't agree on the answer to this simple question ....then there is no hope of ever finding answers to the more important questions. Like:.... How did Lee Oswald know that Junior Jarman and Harold Norman walked by the first floor lunchroom at 12:26??
An excellent point @ the 12:26PM time stamp, Mr. Cakebread, confirming the wrongly-accused was downstairs in the rear of the building, rather than lurking in ambush way up on the sixth floor in the front of the building (please excuse the eyeroll).
The wrongly-accused did not shoot anybody. Anybody.
That said, without a doubt, the rifle found was a German Mauser. Everything that came after that legitimate discovery was manufactured "evidence" amid a hastily contrived script mired in the stench of horse manure.