25-08-2013, 11:07 PM
I'm not 100% certain about the Mauser. You look at photos of 1940s-era Mausers and (at first glance) they resemble 1940s-era Carcanos. It's possible the whole thing was a screwup. Or maybe not.
Roger Craig claimed to see "Mauser" stamped on the rifle, but I have some skepticism about some of his stories. Harold Weisberg wrote in a 1970 letter to a fellow researcher...
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%...m%2016.pdf
"Roger Craig may be a brave guy and all of that, but he is also full of what is generally reserved for toilets. I have gone over his annotation of his testimony, as printed, and his account of the changes is utterly impossible. I spent too many years working with court reporters, particularly, the firm the Commission used, to find it possible to credit this in any way. More, have traced that testimony all the way from Dallas to the Government Printing Office, and it is printed as it was taken down, I have copies of the typescript sent to the GPO, and I have the letter of transmittal to DC the bills for taking it, the whole story. Roger is, despite Penn's great love for him, at best simply wrong, in the newer areas, what he embellished his original testimony with. Now I have met Roger, and he is a finelooking, clean-cut kind of guy who appears to be truthful, serious and all that-just like dozens of guys I once guarded in an Army locked ward in a large mental institution. He does not impress me as the kind of guy who is out to make trouble. But he is."
Roger Craig claimed to see "Mauser" stamped on the rifle, but I have some skepticism about some of his stories. Harold Weisberg wrote in a 1970 letter to a fellow researcher...
http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%...m%2016.pdf
"Roger Craig may be a brave guy and all of that, but he is also full of what is generally reserved for toilets. I have gone over his annotation of his testimony, as printed, and his account of the changes is utterly impossible. I spent too many years working with court reporters, particularly, the firm the Commission used, to find it possible to credit this in any way. More, have traced that testimony all the way from Dallas to the Government Printing Office, and it is printed as it was taken down, I have copies of the typescript sent to the GPO, and I have the letter of transmittal to DC the bills for taking it, the whole story. Roger is, despite Penn's great love for him, at best simply wrong, in the newer areas, what he embellished his original testimony with. Now I have met Roger, and he is a finelooking, clean-cut kind of guy who appears to be truthful, serious and all that-just like dozens of guys I once guarded in an Army locked ward in a large mental institution. He does not impress me as the kind of guy who is out to make trouble. But he is."