Another Anomaly or simply a labelling error?

[Tom Scully]

The video posted by Chris Davidson presents a reenactment by an FBI agent smoothly "hiding" the rifle in a split second and almost in the same motion as
he departs down the stairway steps, but:......

This is from Howard Ruffman's analysis of Oswald's movements in "Presumed
Innocent."To simulate the hiding of the rifle, Howlett "leaned over as if he were
putting a rifle there [near the stair landing at the northwest corner of
the sixth floor]" (3H253). The Commission did not do justice to its
putative assassin who, as the photographs reveal, took meticulous care in
concealing his weapon. The mere act of gaining access to the immediate
area in which the rifle was hidden required time. This is what Deputy
Sheriff Eugene Boone went through before he discovered the rifle:
As I got to the west wall, there were a row of windows there, and a
slight space between some boxes and the wall. I squeezed through them. . .
. I caught a glimpse of the rifle, stuffed down between two rows of boxes
with another box or so pulled over the top of it. (3H293) Luke Mooney "had
to get around to the right angle" before he could see the rifle (3H298).
Likewise, Deputy Constable Seymour Weitzman reported that "it was covered
with boxes. It was very well protected as far as the naked eye" (7H107).
Another Deputy Sheriff, Roger Craig, recalled that the ends of the rows
between which the rifle had been pushed were closed off by boxes, so that
one could not see through them (6H269).
Photographs of the area in which the rifle was found (e.g., CE 719),
and a bird's-eye view of the hidden rifle itself (e.g., CE 517),
corroborate what these men have described and add other information. CE
719 shows that the rifle was found amid clusters of boxes that did not
permit easy access. CE 517, in particular, is very revealing. It shows
that the rifle had been pushed upright on its side between two rows of
boxes that partially overlapped on top, thus eliminating the possibility
that the rifle had merely been dropped down between the stacks. CE 517
also demonstrates that both ends of the rows of boxes were partially
sealed off by other boxes, indicating a possibility never pursued by the
Commission -- namely, that boxes had to be moved to gain access to the
weapon.


When interviewed by CBS News, Seymour Weitzman inadvertently
admitted this fact:
I'll be very frank with you. I stumbled over it two times, not
knowing it was there. . . . And Mr. Bone [sic] was climbing on top, and I
was down on my knees looking, and I moved a box, and he moved a carton,
and there it was. And he in turn hollered that we had found a rifle.[6]
Hence, the concealment of the rifle required much maneuvering. In
addition to squeezing in between boxes, the gunman had to move certain
cartons filled with books. The rifle itself had been very carefully placed
in position. Doubtless this would have added at least 15, perhaps 20,
seconds to the reconstructed time even if the hiding place had been chosen
in advance (of which there is no evidence either way).
If we take the Commission's minimum time of one minute, 14 seconds
(giving the advantage to the official story) and add the additional six or
seven seconds needed just to evacuate the immediate area of the window,
plus the 15 to 20 seconds more for hiding the rifle, we find that it would
have taken at least a minute and 35 seconds to a minute and 41 seconds for
a sixth-floor gunman to have reached the second-floor lunchroom, had all
his maneuvers been planned in advance. Had Oswald been the assassin, he
would have arrived in the lunchroom at least five to eleven seconds after
Baker reached the second floor, even if Baker took the longest time
obtainable for his ascent -- a minute, 30 seconds. Had Baker ascended in
70 seconds -- as he easily could have -- he would have arrived at least 25
seconds before Oswald. Either case removes the possibility that Oswald
descended from the sixth floor, for on November 22 he had unquestionably
arrived in the lunchroom before Baker.
Oswald could not have done all this.