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Cont: JFK Conspiracy Theories VI: Lyndon Johnson's Revenge

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I'm not disputing any of the points you have made. However, as far as the idea that JFK was killed by the Mafia goes, I find Jack Ruby as a Mafia hitman is infinitely more believable than Oswald as a Mafia hit man. As far as I'm concerned, any plausible conspiracy to kill JFK has to include Oswald as the shooter. Ruby's killing of Oswald is, IMO, perhaps the one aspect of the assassination that raises at least a small suspicion that there was a conspiracy. It certainly raises the possibility that somebody wanted to make sure Oswald didn't talk.

However I can't for the life of me see how the Mafia would have chosen Oswald as the guy to make the "hit". Two "lone nuts" seems infinitely more believable than the Mafia hiring Oswald as a hit man and Ruby to take out Oswald.

Your second point underlines the problem of Oswald being part of a conspiracy (as much as I'd love to find a link to Castro, or Hunt Oil, or whomever). Oswald wasn't dumb, and he was certainly trainable for skilled professions (the irony being that had he finished his time in the USMC he could have been a air-traffic controller and made good money). His flaw was his immaturity.

I don't see any mob guy risking the electric chair to hire LHO.

Your first point about Jack Ruby (seems) like it's based on the general knowledge of the guy, which is fine. The problem is that the more I learned about Ruby the less likely he would have been a mob hitman. First, he had a big mouth, not an acceptable trait for a made man who want's to live to see his next birthday. Second, he DID have mob connections, but a lot of people in his line of work did. Strip Clubs were (and are) a great place to launder money. In Ruby's case he was equally as close to the police as he was to the mob, which is another big red flag because not every cop is dirty, and thus he would be a risk for the mob as a made man. So his mob ties would have been casual in nature.

Ruby was also a self-promoter. He loved to see his name in the morning paper. He often called newspapers when there was a fire, or the police were making a bust so he could tell them what he saw.

The one thing Ruby and Oswald had in common was they loved attention. Ruby was just more slick of a self-promoter.
 
Manipresto has yet to explain how, if the goal was to frame Oswald as the lone shooter, why did DPD Detective Fitz attempt to frame Buell Wesley Frazier as an accomplice to the murder of JFK with Oswald?

How does this track in a logical world?
 
Do you think someone other than Oswald killed JFK, manifesto? State your case.

He won't answer just like he would not answer me. I asked for a simple narrative of his opinion of what happened when JFK was shot. I even told him that I did not want evidence, just a cohesive story. All I got was snide comments on peripherally related issues.
 
He won't answer just like he would not answer me. I asked for a simple narrative of his opinion of what happened when JFK was shot. I even told him that I did not want evidence, just a cohesive story. All I got was snide comments on peripherally related issues.

At least that guy who came here to claim that silencers were used was willing to lay it all out, and he didn't run away from most of the questions. He just gave up, but at least he made an honest effort.
 
Manifesto, the Roger Craig video you posted actually proves that Craig lied.

All you have to do to see that is to compare the rifle Day held up with a photo showing a Mauser and a Carcano side by side. (Sorry I can't post the link but it's easy to find.)

The rifle Day picked up has the Carcano's long horizontal groove in the wooden stock that the Mauser lacks. The shape of the Mauser's trigger guard is also different. Craig's claim that he saw "7.65 Mauser" stamped on the barrel was therefore a big fat lie.
 
Because you initially made an issue of the recantation of the Mauser IDs by Weitzman and Boone, and claimed one man didn't recant.

Remember?



But Craig didn't claim the rifle was a Mauser until the 1970s, as you now concede. So he modified his original claims made in affidavits made on the weekend of the assassination in November of 1963 (when he didn't think to even mention a Mauser), he modified his claims in his testimony to the Warren Commission in 1964. And he modified his claims in 1969 when he didn't mention the Mauser when he testified at the Clay Shaw trial.

So how many nights do we allow a witness 'to sleep on it' before their statements becomes questionable and worthy of note? Is less than a year questionable, as in the case of Boone and Weitzman? Why then is Craig's change of testimony not questionable, as he took at least six years plus to first mention the Mauser?

And you made an issue of why the Warren Commission didn't question him about the Mauser, but if he didn't mention the Mauser until the 1970s, how could they question him about something he never mentioned anywhere?

As I asked in an earlier post and you ignored - what if he first mentioned the Mauser in 2017 - would waiting that long to bring up a Mauser be questionable?

What's your criteria here?

If it points to a conspiracy is your criteria it's always acceptable?

And if it points to Oswald, it never is?

Hank

I believe this is what's technically known as a skewering.
Great stuff, Hank- carry on!
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Argument, not evidence. I thought you had counter evidence. You said you did.
What argument do Day provide that support your claim of Oswald killing JFK?

Do you have any questions for J.C.Day, Manifesto?
No.

Argument comes at the end of the trial, in the summation phase. Not after every witness.

Right now all the jury has heard is that the weapon is an Italian rifle manufactured in 1940, firing 6.5mm ammo, and with the serial number of C2766.

Shall I move to the next witness or do you have any questions of J.C.Day?

Hank
No. The only movement required from you are writing down your EVIDENCE of Oswald killing JFK and post it here in the thread.

Are you EVER going to do that, Hank?
 
Because you initially made an issue of the recantation of the Mauser IDs by Weitzman and Boone, and claimed one man didn't recant.

Remember?
So?

But Craig didn't claim the rifle was a Mauser until the 1970s, as you now concede. So he modified his original claims made in affidavits made on the weekend of the assassination in November of 1963 (when he didn't think to even mention a Mauser), he modified his claims in his testimony to the Warren Commission in 1964. And he modified his claims in 1969 when he didn't mention the Mauser when he testified at the Clay Shaw trial.
Did WC ask him to identify the rifle?

So how many nights do we allow a witness 'to sleep on it' before their statements becomes questionable and worthy of note? Is less than a year questionable, as in the case of Boone and Weitzman? Why then is Craig's change of testimony not questionable, as he took at least six years plus to first mention the Mauser?

And you made an issue of why the Warren Commission didn't question him about the Mauser, but if he didn't mention the Mauser until the 1970s, how could they question him about something he never mentioned anywhere?

As I asked in an earlier post and you ignored - what if he first mentioned the Mauser in 2017 - would waiting that long to bring up a Mauser be questionable?

What's your criteria here?

If it points to a conspiracy is your criteria it's always acceptable?

And if it points to Oswald, it never is?

Hank
Why did WC not ask him of the identity of the rifle he was part of finding on the 6th floor? I would think the Commission had an interest in that.

No?
 
What evidence do you have that the bullet was identified as steel jacketed? How do you know the people making the claim about the bullet were correct?

Ranb


The Walker bullet was misidentified as steel jacketed, but this is of no more significance than the misidentification of Oswald's rifle as a Mauser. The reason for this is that steel-jacketed bullets are typically copper plated, in order to prevent them from rusting, and thus can appear quite similar to bullets with copper-alloy jackets. See here (scroll down until you find the pictures of the Walker bullet next to CE-399).

Additionally, FBI firearms examiner Robert Frazier testified that:

Mr. EISENBERG - Can you think of any reason why someone might have called this a steel-jacketed bullet?
Mr. FRAZIER - No, sir; except that some individuals commonly refer to rifle bullets as steel-jacketed bullets, when they actually in fact just have a copper-alloy jacket. [source]​
 
So?

Did WC ask him to identify the rifle?

Why did WC not ask him of the identity of the rifle he was part of finding on the 6th floor? I would think the Commission had an interest in that.

No?

I asked you some questions. You changed the subject and begged the question. Not playing that game.

Let's dispose of your nonsense for all time. The prosecution calls to the stand Roger Craig:

== QUOTE ==
Mr. CRAIG - They wanted to search the building for the weapon, so I went to the---I went to the northeast corner of the building and began to search west.
Mr. BELIN - Uh-huh.
Mr. CRAIG - Uh---everybody else took a different spot. And as I got nearly to the west end of the building, Officer Boone---Eugene Boone with the sheriff's office---hollered that here was the rifle.
Mr. BELIN - How far were you from Officer Boone when he hollered?
Mr. CRAIG - About 8-foot.
Mr. BELIN - What did you do then?
Mr. CRAIG - I went over to the--uh--cluster of boxes where he was standing and looked down between the boxes and saw the rifle lying on the floor.
Mr. BELIN - When you say "between the cluster of boxes," could you describe which way the boxes were?
Mr. CRAIG - There was a row going east to west on the north side of the weapon, and a box going east to west on the south side of the weapon, and--uh--if I remember, uh--as you'd look down, you had to look kinda back under the north stack of boxes to see the rifle. It was pushed kinda under---uh---or up tight against 'em---you know, where it would be hard to see. And, of course, both ends of the rows were closed off where you couldn't see through 'em. You had to get up and look in 'em.
Mr. BELIN - You are gesturing with your hand there---would you say that the boxes, then, as you gestured, were in the shape of what I would call a rectangular "O", so to speak?
Mr. CRAIG - Yes, yes, uh-huh.
Mr. BELIN - And about how high were the walls of this enclosure, so to speak?
Mr. CRAIG - Well, it-it was different heights. Now, the part where I looked in particularly was about---uh---oh, was about 5-foot.
Mr. BELIN - All right. And you gestured there in such a way that you had to lean over and look straight down? Would that be a fair statement of your gestures?
Mr. CRAIG - Yes; yes. You had to lean over the boxes and look down.
Mr. BELIN - All right. Then what happened? After you found this, did people come over---or what?
Mr. CRAIG - Yes; several other people came over.
Mr. BELIN - Do you remember about what time this was?
Mr. CRAIG - No; I had no idea then how long it had been.
Mr. BELIN - All right. Do you remember who else came over?
Mr. CRAIG - Oh, Officer Mooney and--uh--several of the city officers; Will Fritz came over--Capt. Will Fritz, with the city of Dallas; some of his investigators, I didn't know them; and a criminal identification man, I believe, from the city of Dallas, then came over there to take pictures of the weapon.
Mr. BELIN - The weapon was moved by the time the pictures were taken?
Mr. CRAIG - No; no. The pictures were taken as the weapon was found lying here.

Mr. BELIN - Did you see the pictures taken of the shells?
Mr. CRAIG - No.
Mr. BELIN - You don't know whether or not anything was moved in that window before this?
Mr. CRAIG - No; no.
Mr. BELIN - All right. Anything else happen up to that time that you haven't related here that you feel might be important?
Mr. CRAIG - No. Uh---I'm thinking it was about this time---uh---that we got the news there had been a city officer shot over in Oak Cliff.

Mr. BELIN - And then what happened?
Mr. CRAIG - Well, there was just--uh--of course, everybody stayed there, you know, and sort of mingled around and--uh--I then went back downstairs after the weapon was picked up. The identification man from the city of Dallas then, after he took his pictures, picked the weapon up and handed it to Will Fritz.
And I then went back downstairs and over to the sheriffs office.

== UNQUOTE ==

Your witness. Any questions for Roger Craig?

Hank

EDIT: And now answer the questions I asked of you... what's your criteria here for how long after an event a change in testimony is credible? six months, seven years, five decades, what? Need a number. Need you to explain your 'logic' and 'reasoning' here. Answer the questions I asked here:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=12256559&postcount=1054
 
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Manifesto, the Roger Craig video you posted actually proves that Craig lied.

All you have to do to see that is to compare the rifle Day held up with a photo showing a Mauser and a Carcano side by side. (Sorry I can't post the link but it's easy to find.)

The rifle Day picked up has the Carcano's long horizontal groove in the wooden stock that the Mauser lacks. The shape of the Mauser's trigger guard is also different. Craig's claim that he saw "7.65 Mauser" stamped on the barrel was therefore a big fat lie.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Jean, you go back to Prodigy too (and wrote a book, called "Oswald's Game").

Can you believe that almost 30 years later, we're still arguing over the supposed 'Mauser'?

Hank
 
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manifesto answer my question.
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- A few witnesses on the Dealey Plaza reporting seeing the back of JFK’s head being blown away, indicating a shot from in front of him.

Where in the autopsy is the wound located in the back of the head, other than the entry wound?
 
manifesto answer my question
Quote:

You are the one claiming secured provinience and secured chain of custody.

Show me.
I'm not claiming anything. I asked you to provide evidence that a chain of custody was not done.
 
What argument do Day provide that support your claim of Oswald killing JFK?

Misleading. He provided evidence. Not argument. You had an opportunity to cross-examine Day. You declined.

The only movement required from you are writing down your EVIDENCE of Oswald killing JFK and post it here in the thread.Are you EVER going to do that, Hank?

We've heard the evidence directly from the mouth of two of the participants thus far. Detective J.C.Day of the Dallas Police Department handled the weapon, transported it personally back to the Dallas Crime Lab, took photos of it there, and noted the markings on it: '1940', '6.5', 'Made Italy', and 'C2766'.

We've heard from Roger Craig, who said the rifle was amongst boxes and hard to see. And asked if anything else important was worth mentioning that happened about that time, he mentioned only the shooting of J.D.Tippit in Oak Cliff. Not a peep about a Mauser. And he mentioned the Mauser not at all in two different affidavits, and he mentioned it not at all at the Clay Shaw trial when he testified in 1969. You need to establish at this point there is any evidence of a Mauser on the sixth floor. You've admitted Boone and Weitzman recanted their claims. And you've admitted Day's first mention of the 'Mauser' is in the 1970s.

And I didn't even get to the crime scene and crime lab photos taken by J.C.Day or the film taken in the Depository by Alyea (Jean Davison pointed out the evidence of the latter disproving your arguments).

Your arguments here have no backing. No evidence. They are devoid of life. They have given up the ghost. They have passed to the great beyond. They are deceased. I submit to you, sir, YOUR ARGUMENT IS DEAD. (Apologies to Monty Python).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218

Hank
 
Only 12% of witnesses think the shots came from the Knoll, and none of them saw a shooter, just thought they heard.

Maybe 12% constitutes a majority where you're from, but not in real life.
Suorce?

When I was a CT-idiot low self-esteem played a part in my willingness to embrace stupidity over rational thinking. It is the one thing common to all CTists.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Man, that's an oldie but goody. Do you know Melancholy Baby?

Triangulation makes no sense since it requires three shooters, and there was only one.
I suppose you have evidence for only one shooter? Show me.

Whenever you man-up and go to Dallas the first thing you will notice is that there is NO SHOT from the picket fence to the middle lane of Elm Street until until the instant of the head shot.
Well, that’s enough isn’t it?

Zero time to draw a bead. Second, the view from the Grassy Knoll was obstructed by the crowd standing on the sidewalk, and the shooter would have had to thread the bullet between the heads of the spectators to make the shot.

I know a lot of great shooter, none of them are that good.

The driver slowed to allow Clint Black to catch up.
The driver has ONE task. Speeding the limo away at the first sign of any danger. Greer slows down, beginning with the first shot and keep slowing down while looking back at the wounded president ... until he see his head explode, THEN he accellerate the limo away from the turkey shoot.

Then he lied to the Warren Commission, stating that he never looked at JFK and that he sped away as soon as he heard a rifle shot.

Greer was an Irish protestant, JFK an Irish catholic. Centuries of hatred between the two ethnic groups.

The original assigned driver in the Dallas motorcade died in a ”heart attack” on asignment in Camp David some weeks before JFK’s parade in the City. No known health problems, no autopsy, rushed burial without telling the president that one of his life guards suddenly died on duty.

In comes Greer.

The TSBD was behind them. The picket fence was to their right.
A little bit behind. He was busy looking at JFK’s exploding head in his camera.

Then there's the problem of a "professional hitman" setting up less than ten feet from witnesses. A lesser known fact is that Marilyn Sitzman, Zapruder's secretary who held his legs to steady him, said that there was a young African-American couple seated on a bench between them and the fence. She remembers them because they had small lunch sack and were drinking Coke, and after the last shot she remembers hear "a crash of glass" from where they had thrown their Coke bottles, and ran to the back.

Why would terrified people run in the direction of a shooter?

Sitzman says that the sound of breaking glass was louder than any of the three shots, and maintained until her death that no shots came from the Knoll.
That is ONE witness explicitly stating that no shots came from the knoll. One vs. ca fifty. You do the math.

Yes, the plaza is a notorious echo chamber, and this has been documented with the latest technology.
Have they performed tests with blindfolded subjects pointing out the source from rifle shots around Deleay Plaza?

Again, 12% is not a majority. It's a dream number for the amount of alcohol in beer, but it's not a majority.
Again, source?

And yet you and other CTist disregard eye witness testimony you disagree with.
No, I do not. Again, every witness and testimony has to be evaluated on its own merits.

The evaluation comes when testimony is compared to the physical evidence, ballistic evidence, and the forensic evidence (which all points back to Oswald).
Ca 50 witnesses observed JFK’s headwounds up close, doctors and nurses from three different hospitals, agents from two federal agencies, and almost everyone are saying they saw a BIG GAPING WOUND in the right back of the head. Against this you have a couple of x-rays and a couple of autopsy photos very easy to fake.

Mass psychosis vs. a couple of manipulated photographs?

Bullets...I'm talking BULLETS, not studies.
Yes, and what is your argument from your ballistics?

It went through.
How do you know? When one of the three autopsy doctors, Pierre Finck, was on the stand in Garrisons trial against CIA’s Clay Shaw he stated that when they tried to probe the entrance wound further in, they got orders from ”a general or admiral” not to probe it further.

So, how do you know? Clairvoyance?

4 cm is how far one of them probed with a finger. Should be pointed out that even had they probed deeper it would have been inconclusive, at least that's what Humes has stated.
It doesn’t matter, they did not probe the wound, ergo no established path through the body.

Why, do you think, were they ordered not to probe the wound further?

It's there in the X-rays, and photos of the throat wound show abrasion collars which are distinct to exit wounds.
Are there? Show me.

Which is to be expected from a fracturing 6.5x52mm round.
Maybe so, but the problem is that the x-rays show an entrance wound on the other side of the back of the head, in the cowlick area on the midline, 4cm to the left and 11cm above where the autopsy doctors in Bethesda placed it. Also, the trail of very small metal fragments now was in the uppger part of the right brain, when according to same autopsy doctors it was in the lower part of said right bran.

That is a lot of realestate?

Nope. Never happened. Do you know the assassination is on film? No massive hole in the back of the head is visible.
Nothing is visible. It is shadowed and nothing of the right back of the head is visible. Some see a black patch as if put there artificially. I’m not sure myself.

Easy call to make. I go with the men who performed the autopsy. They laid hands on the man, they cut the man open, they sawed open his skull.
They too observered a big gaping wound at the right back of the head.

Those other 50 surgeons? Surgeons are not Pathologists. It takes 11 additional years of medical school to become one, and Pathologists exist because surgeons are not good at determining the cause of death. They're good at fixing people, but once they're dead they cannot be counted on to make medical determinations outside of their chosen medical specialty (I don't want a cardiac surgeon working on my testicles for good reason).
Brain surgeons that doesn’t see the difference between gray cerebrum and pink cerebellum ozing out from a big gaping wound in the back of the head?

Are you kidding me?

So it doesn't matter what 50 surgeons think, only what the three pathologists concluded in writing. Most pathologists who have reviewed the files in the National Archives agree with the original findings.
The HSCA medical panel reviewed the x-rays and the autopsy photos and came to the conclusion that there were no big gaping wound in them. I child can see that, btw. They also came to the conclusion that the entrance wound was on the midline in the cowlick are at the top of the back of the head.

Funny, (see above) cause the three pathologists identified the entrance wound positioned in the lower part at the back of the head, 4cm to the right of the midline on the EOP. 11cm beneath the entrance wound described by the HSCA medical panel!? On the EOP furtherst down at the back of the head.

The same three pathologists also said that they first saw half of the entrance wound (round bullet whole) in the EOP and therefore did not see it until fragments from the limo and elswhere was flawn in and they fitted some of the pieces together. There is no trace of a wound with fragmented pieces of cranium in the back of the head in the x-rays or the photos.

The three forensic pathologists in the Methodist Hospital that analyzed the so called ”Harper fragment” found in the grass on the south side of Elm Street on the Dealey Plaza the day after the assassination, concluded that:

1. It was a fresh 5 x 7 cm bone fragment ca a day old.
2. It was from occipital bone (back of the head).
3. They wrote their report, photographed the fragment and gave it to the FBI who allegedly brought it to the pathologists in Bethesda, never to be seen again.

The HSCA medical panel made the conclusion after studying the photos of the fragment that it was from the top af the head, parietal bone, not occipital.

Why? Well, they asked the leaders of the HSCA if the witnesses at Bethesda confirmed what was in the x-rays and photos and got the answer that, yes, they did. So, if the x-rays and photos were the real deal it HAD to be of parietal bone at the top right side of the head, because that is the only region with that type of wound visible in the x-rays.

Ca 20 years later, when all the HSCA records got publicized by ARRB, the documents showed that someone had lied to its medical panel, that almost none in the staff at Bethesda had unambigously confirmed the content in said x-rays and photo’s. No one has to this day revealed WHO it was that lied to the panel.

Oups?

The HSCA medical panel also got assured that the autopsy photographs had been autheticated coming from the camera used at the Bethesda autopsy. Same thing here, they were lied to. The alleged camera could not have been the one used to take said photographs. Same thing here, no guilty culprit has stepped forward.

Oups?

And who cares what FBI and Secert Service Agents think they saw?
The Secret Service agents in the White House detail are trained to save the presidents life in case of an attack. To keep him alive until medical expertise can take charge. They know a BIG GAPING wound in the back of the head when they see it.

The FBI sent two agents to Bethesda in order to observe and take accurate notes of the autopsy in the murder of the century. They had to have some traning otherwise they (Tibert & O’Neil) had not been picked by HQ for the job.

You'll have to look in the Warren Commission. The match was made by ballistics experts, and confirmed again during the HSCA.
State your source and exactly where I can find it. Quote and argue.

Otherwise it is impossible to know exactly what you are trying to say.

Oh, so you've viewed it under a microscope like the FBI did? If not then you have no case.
Source. Quote. Where I can find it.

They needed a test pool of 600 people, they did not have that.
No, they need a sufficient number in order to make a statistical assessment. If no one mistake the source a rifle shot for an echoe of same shot it’s pretty much a slam dunk.

Of the actual witnesses to the assassination interviewed, 44% had no clue where the shots came from,
Were they asked?

28% thought the shots came from the TSBD,
Source?

12% thought they came from the Grassy Knoll,
Source?

and 2% felt that the shots came from different places.
Source?

44 + 28 + 12 + 2 = 86 = 14% went missing?

And yet you have not proved Oswald's innocence.
Luckily I do not need to, it is you who have to prove/show he was guilty.

So far I’m far from impressed.

Let me know if you need any sources, but be specific, it is a lot of material.
 
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I suppose you have evidence for only one shooter? Show me.

SHIFTING THE BURDEN OF PROOF.

You agreed the null hypothesis was one shooter, and additional shooters must be proven. Proving the additional shooters is your responsibility. No one has to establish the null. You agreed on that.

Thus, any additional shooter must be established...

This is why everyone refers you to the thread and the evidence. It's a waste of time to argue with a conspiracy theorist like yourself.

You (and CTs everywhere) agree on certain points, and then a few days later, you (and CTs everywhere) forget that and start arguing against the point you (and CTs everywhere) previously agreed on.

I'm not going to bother to respond to the rest of your points. It's a standard Gish Gallop, with a host of CT talking points thrown into the mix while you ignore the fact that your arguments for the Mauser were crushed beyond recognition.

Read the thread. Learn the difference between evidence and argument.

Hank
 
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We've previously seen Detective Day of the DPD testify he identified the rifle found in the Depository from the markings found therein. We saw Deputy Sheriff Craig confirm the photos were taken at the crime scene of the rifle in place.

I remind the jury that J.C.Day identified the rifle as a 6.5mm weapon made in Italy in 1940, and that it bore the serial number of C2766.

The next witness will establish that weapon was shipped to the PO Box of 2915, the PO box opened by the defendant, which will be established by the subsequent witness.

The state calls to the stand William Waldman:
== QUOTE ==
Mr. BELIN. Would you please state your full name?
Mr. WALDMAN. William J. Waldman.
Mr. BELIN. And where do you live, Mr. Waldman?
Mr. WALDMAN. 335 Central Avenue, Wilmette, Ill.
Mr. BELIN. Is that a suburb of Chicago?
Mr. WALDMAN. It's a suburb of Chicago.
Mr. BELIN. And what is your occupation?
Mr. WALDMAN. Vice president of Klein's Sporting Goods, Inc.
Mr. BELIN. How long have you been with Klein's?
Mr. WALDMAN. Approximately 12 years.
Mr. BELIN. And in your capacity as vice president, what are your general areas of work?
Mr. WALDMAN. Supervising office, warehouse, and retail operations, participating in the merchandising and advertising.
Mr. BELIN. What kinds of products does Klein's sell?
Mr. WALDMAN. Sporting goods in the majority, with some few specialty items which appeal to the male consumer.
...
Mr. BELIN. Does Klein's Sporting Goods, Inc., handle rifles in their line of sporting goods?
Mr. WALDMAN. They do.
...
Mr. BELIN. Mr. Waldman, were you ever contacted by any law enforcement agency about the disposition of this Mannlicher-Carcano rifle that had the serial number C-2766 on it?
Mr. WALDMAN. Yes; on the night of November 22, 1963, the FBI contacted our company in an effort to determine whether the gun had been in our possession and, if so, what disposition we had made of it.
Mr. BELIN. Do you know how the FBI happened to contact you or your company?
Mr. WALDMAN. The FBI had a record of a gun of this type and with this serial number having been shipped to us by Crescent Firearms.
Mr. BELIN. Do you mean that Crescent Firearms gave the FBI this information?
Mr. WALDMAN. Well, I--I must assume that's the case. I don't know it for a fact.
Mr. BELIN. All right. What did you and your company do when you were contacted by the FBI?
Mr. WALDMAN. We met with the FBI in our offices.
Mr. BELIN. Was this on Friday evening, November 22?
Mr. WALDMAN. On Friday evening, November 22.
Mr. BELIN. Did the FBI indicate at what time, what period that they felt you might have received this rifle originally?
Mr. WALDMAN. We were able to determine from our purchase records the date in which the rifle had been received, and they also had a record of when it had been shipped, so we knew the approximate date of receipt by us, and from that we made---let's see, we examined our microfilm records which show orders from mail order customers and related papers, and from this determined to whom the gun had been shipped by us.
Mr. BELIN. Are these microfilm records part of your customary recording of transactions of your company?
Mr. WALDMAN. Yes; they are.
Mr. BELIN. I'm handing you what has been marked as an FBI Exhibit D-77 and ask you if you know what this is.
Mr. WALDMAN. This is a microfilm record that---of mail order transactions for a given period of time. It was turned over by us to the FBI.
Mr. BELIN. Do you know when it was turned over to the FBI?
Mr. WALDMAN. It was turned over to them on November 23, 1963.
Mr. BELIN. Now, you are reading from the carton containing that microfilm. Do you know whose initials are on there?
Mr. WALDMAN. Yes; the initials on here are mine and they were put on the date on which this was turned over to the FBI concerned with the investigation.
Mr. BELIN. You have on your premises a machine for looking at the microfilm prints?
Mr. WALDMAN. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. And you can make copies of the microfilm prints?
Mr. WALDMAN. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. I wonder if we can adjourn the deposition upstairs to take a look at these records in the microfilm and get copies of the appropriate records that you found on the evening of November 22.
Mr. WALDMAN. Yes.
(Whereupon, the following proceedings were had at the microfilm machine.)
Mr. BELIN. Mr. Waldman, you have just put the microfilm which we call D-77 into your viewer which is marked a Microfilm Reader-Printer, and you have identified this as No. 270502, according to your records. Is this just a record number of yours on this particular shipment?
Mr. WALDMAN. That's a number which we assign for identification purposes.
Mr. BELIN. And on the microfilm record, would you please state who it shows this particular rifle was shipped
Mr. WALDMAN. Shipped to a Mr. A.--last name H-i-d-e-l-l, Post Office Box 2915, Dallas, Tex.
Mr. BELIN. And does it show arts' serial number or control number?
Mr. WALDMAN. It shows shipment of a rifle bearing our control number VC-836 and serial number C-2766.
Mr. BELIN. Is there a price shown for that?
Mr. WALDMAN. Price is $19.95, plus $1.50 postage and handling, or a total of $21.45.
Mr. BELIN. Now, I see another number off to the left. What is this number?
Mr. WALDMAN. The number that you referred to, C20-T750 is a catalog number.
Mr. BELIN. And after that, there appears some words of identification or description. Can you state what that is?
Mr. WALDMAN. The number designates an item which we sell, namely, an Italian carbine, 6.5 caliber rifle with the 4X scope.
Mr. BELIN. Is there a date of shipment which appears on this microfilm record?
Mr. WALDMAN. Yes; the date of shipment was March 20, 1963.
Mr. BELIN. Does it show by what means it was shipped?
Mr. WALDMAN. It was shipped by parcel post as indicated by this circle around the letters "PP."
Mr. BELIN. Does it show if any amount was enclosed with the order itself?
Mr. WALDMAN. Yes; the amount that was enclosed with the order was $21.45, as designated on the right-hand side of this order blank here.
Mr. BELIN. Opposite the words "total amount enclosed"?
Mr. WALDMAN. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Is there anything which indicates in what form you received the money?
Mr. WALDMAN. Yes; below the amount is shown the letters "MO" designating money order.
Mr. BELIN. Now, I see the extreme top of this microfilm, the date, March 13, 1963; to what does that refer?
Mr. WALDMAN. This is an imprint made by our cash register indicating that the remittance received from the customer was passed through our register on that date.
Mr. BELIN. And to the right of that, I see $21.45. Is that correct?
Mr. WALDMAN. That's correct.
Mr. BELIN. Is there any other record that you have in connection with the shipment of this rifle other than the particular microfilm negative frame that we are looking at right now?
Mr. WALDMAN. We have a--this microfilm record of a coupon clipped from a portion of one of our advertisements, which indicates by writing of the customer on the coupon that he ordered our catalog No. C20-T750; and he has shown the price of the item, $19.95, and gives as his name A. Hidell, and his address as Post Office Box 2915, in Dallas, Tex.
Mr. BELIN. Anything else on that negative microfilm frame?
Mr. WALDMAN. The coupon overlays the envelope in which the order was mailed and this shows in the upper left-hand corner the return address of A. Hidell, Post Office Box 2915, in Dallas, Tex.
== UNQUOTE ==

Your witness, Manifesto.

Any questions for Mr. Waldman of Klein's?

Hank
 
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SHIFTING THE BURDEN OF PROOF.

You agreed the null hypothesis was one shooter, and additional shooters must be proven. Proving the additional shooters is your responsibility. No one has to establish the null. You agreed on that.
It was a response to a categorical statement, as if it was proven there were only one shooter. It’s proven it was AT LEAST one shooter. That is the ”Null” (lol) if you like.

This is why everyone refers you to the thread and the evidence. It's a waste of time to argue with a conspiracy theorist like yourself.

You (and CTs everywhere) agree on certain points, and then a few days later, you (and CTs everywhere) forget that and start arguing against the point you (and CTs everywhere) previously agreed on.

I'm not going to bother to respond to the rest of your points. It's a standard Gish Gallop, with a host of CT talking points thrown into the mix while you ignore the fact that your arguments for the Mauser were crushed beyond recognition.

Read the thread. Learn the difference between evidence and argument.

Hank
No, the reason you and your following are refering to ”the thread” as evidence is that you have none. That, and calling names in order to boost your sence of self-esteem.

Not? Prove me wrong, Hank. Show me the evidence. And stop calling names.

Do it.
 
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