Why the WC is Inoperative: Plaque 3

[Drew Phipps]

From plaque 3: "The Commission says that Oswald ordered a 36-inch, 5.5 pound Mannlicher Carcano carbine rifle. But this is not the rifle entered into evidence by the Dallas Police. That rifle is a 40.2 inch, 7.5 pound Mannlicher Carcano short rifle. Again, this discrepancy is never noted by the Commission nor is it in the Warren Report."

We also know that the rifle paraded into the street and through the hallways of DPD is visually a different rifle from the one in the National Archives. The photographic comparisons are here on this forum in another thread and elsewhere.

We also know that the rifle in the backyard photos is the wrong size to be either a 40 inch or a 36 inch rifle. If that is truly 5' 9" Oswald in the photo, then the rifle he is holding is at least 43 inches long. (If the backyards photos are faked, there's no telling what rifle is being held.)