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On 14 Nov 2012 06:59:20 -0800, Ben Holmes <ad...@burningknife.com>
wrote:

>In the previous paragraphs, Mark Lane explained the inconvenience of the
>original evidence of a German Mauser.
>
>"I traveled to Dallas at the beginning of 1964 and there met Hugh Aynesworth, a
>reporter for The Dallas Morning News, who gave me photostated copies of a number
>of original affidavits. These documents, prepared by the Dallas police, included
>one signed by Deputy Constable Weitzman. Although the Commission did not publish
>Weitzman's affidavit in the Report, it may be found - with diligence — in Volume
>XXIV, where it was reproduced without comment. So as to make the record more
>nearly perfect, I offer it as an appendix. It reveals that Weitzman described
>the rifle which he and Boone had discovered as 'a 7.65 Mauser bolt action
>equipped with a 4/18 scope, a thick leather brownish-black sling on it'."
>
>The Seymour Weitzman affidavit that Mark Lane talks about can be found here:
>http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh24/html/WH_Vol24_0123b.htm
>
>Mark Lane is now detailing the circumstances surrounding the alleged murder
>weapon. 

Of course, the Alyea film, which shows the weapon clearly, shows it to
be a Mannlicher-Carcano.

.John

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