Question:The gun that was used to kill JFK

[olaftheproud]

i thought it was a 22 bolt gun

[Outriderdark]

no, it wasn't a bolt gun.

[NRAJOE]

Elvis just told me HE did it....

[Troy]

elvis didn't die, he just went home.:spaceship:

Originally Posted by Outriderdark

no, it wasn't a bolt gun.

a bolt gun was supposedly used by Oswald to assassinate Kennedy..a Mannlicher Carcano..a rimfire revolver was used to kill Robert Kennedy..if memory serves Sirhan had an old Iver Johnson

[Outriderdark]

I AM Elvis and I did NOT!

Elvis usually kept a derringer in his boot, and carried another gun in his pocket. Sometimes two.. Elvis bought almost $20,000 worth of hand guns in 1970 alone.. a small fortune at that time.

[Tipadoux]

Good point on sniper rifles being that if one who is a sniper uses them. I am a sniper from a deer stand with my 22/250 because I snipe deer. That is hide and wait and take the shot with the target unaware. If I took a marine 308 sniper rifle hunting and shot a deer would it stilll be a sniper rifle? Well anyway you know what I mean. As far as I am concerned President Kennedy was killed from a bullet that hit the front of his head not the back. I had one of those old Italian military rifles several years ago and you would be lucky to hit a bull in the butt at 50 yards. Any way in order to remove sniper rifles you would have to remove all rifles as all can be used to snipe with. And pistols work pretty good for the same thing. But what we must really do folks is join together and stay together in the coming surge to remove firearms from this country. The UN has a plan to use children to disarm America if they ever get the right liberials in control of the President's office and the embassor to the UN. We should be consentrating on the 2008 election as it will be critial.

[utahvarminter]

Originally Posted by lefty o

now my history is a little fuzzy, but im pretty sure Bobby Kennedy wasnt killed with a rifle. there is no such thing as a sniper rifle. the words "sniper rifle" could be used to describe any rifle used by a sniper. Carlos Hathcock used what most people consider to be a good deer rifle, but because it was in his hands it became a snipers rifle.

FINALLY SOMEONE WHO GETS IT!!!!!!!!

[Otter]

Mannlicher-Cancano 6.5mm serial # C2766

"life is too important to be taken seriously."

Originally Posted by Otter

Mannlicher-Cancano 6.5mm serial # C2766

Oswald was the patsy

[Otter]

I believe that "Christians In Action" were responsible because they wanted the war in SE Asia and JFK was oppossed to sending U.S. Troops to Vietnam.

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

[Tipadoux]

take a look in to the political career of Linden Johnston and see how may people died along the way. He despised second place-enough said! Look close at the films and you will see the fatal bullet come form the front not the back!

[Copper]

It is a well known fact that Liberalism is an untreatable mental disorder. Trying to explain the 4th amendment to a Liberal is like trying to explain quantum physics to a chimpanzee.

On 22nd November, 1963, Jean Hill, a Dallas schoolteacher, watched the motorcade of President John F. Kennedy from the grassy knoll facing the Texas School Depository Building. Hill and her friend, Mary Moorman were only a few feet away from President John F. Kennedy when he was shot. Hill thought the shots had come from behind her on the grassy knoll and as soon as the firing stopped she ran towards the wooden fence in an attempt to find the gunman. However, Hill was arrested by two policemen and taken into custody.
The vast majority of witnesses in the Dealey Plaza on that day claimed that shots came from two directions: the Texas Book Depository and the Grassy Knoll. The behaviour of the police to the shooting is also very interesting. Film of the Dealey Plaza shows that within seconds of the shots being fired several police charged up the grassy knoll. A few minutes later there were over 50 policemen searching the grassy knoll area and the railroad parking lot that was situated just behind it. This was a far larger number than went into the Texas Book Depository.
In their book The Man on the Grassy Knoll, John R. Craig and Philip A. Rogers claimed that Charles Harrelson and Charles Rogers were the two gunman behind the picket fence on the Grassy Knoll. It was also claimed that Harrelson and Rogers were two of the tramps arrested in Dealey Plaza on 22nd November, 1963.

[Lonegun1894]

I have been to the depository, although much later, in the mid 90s. A friend and i were up there trying to figure out how we would have done it, everything being the same--trying to play devils advocate basically. I had a 6.5 carcano at that time and we wrote down the ranges they had posted and crosschecked them with those given in books. Then measured out the exact range when we went shooting, and pretty much put ourselves to shame. Now, i was about to graduate high school at the time, and the friend was a Nam vet. So some difference in experience between us. We both easily duplicated the time frame given with other rifles, but that carcano bolt kept sticking a bit and just wasnt smooth enough to allow us to duplicate what Oswald was accused of. That was just us though.

Also, as has been mentioned, watch the video carefully and draw your own conclusions. They're right there on film if you look close.

[iflylow74]

I think Oswald did it alone.

[SPOCAHP ANAR]

Originally Posted by Lonegun1894

We both easily duplicated the time frame given with other rifles, but that carcano bolt kept sticking a bit and just wasnt smooth enough to allow us to duplicate what Oswald was accused of. .

Back in the late 80's or early 90's there was a TV special on the Kennedy assassination. They had a well known and trained sharpshooter that couldn't even duplicate the shots as well as Oswald supposedly did, (not to belittle your skills). He matched the time frame but did not hit the target, proving that he could fire off the shots only in that time.

[Lonegun1894]

no offense taken in any way, besides, we were trying to see for ourselves anyways. The time frame was easy, but it was about impossible to cycle that bolt without taking the gun off the shoulder and we kept trying and failed. We could place the shots, or match the time, but never came close to achieving both. The time was only matched when we fired into a berm and from the hip at very close range (safety), so that gives you an idea. Doing it with a modern Rem700 308 we both beat his speed while maintaning accuracy, but that Carcano was a pain...

[Joey l mur]

Kenedy was assassinated with bulletes from his gun but they were saboted to hide the rifling from the larger bore rifle used to shoot him.