Living History with Eugene Boone

[@victorwadsworth821]

Thanks for putting this together, great meeting Buell Wesley Frazier at this event and thanks to Mr. Boone for coming.

[@AdmoreMethod]

Isn’t it interesting how NO FILM or PHOTO CAMERA ever looked up at the book depository? Why do we have NO FOOTAGE of anyone ever looking up at the windows?

[@thejoeycage]

Don't start asking questions, you'll labeled a crackpot.

[@AdmoreMethod]

@@thejoeycage Right…?!? 😂

[@jetcat132]

@@thejoeycageExactly. A crackpot.

[@Conspiratard]

A very enjoyable interview.

[@jimbo16720]

There's another problem...at the end when he's asked questions he says Tippit's gun was never taking out of his holster but the testimony says he was laying on his gun when they got to him and it was handed to the police when they arrived.

[@viewer3091]

Perhaps Tippet was killed by someone he knew or certainly by someone he did not consider a threat to him .

[@randyharris3175]

Testimony of whom???

[@randyharris3175]

@Jimmy Allen Jimmy Roger Craig was not murdered

[@randyharris3175]

@@viewer3091 perhaps youre wrong it was proven beyond any doubt he was murdered by oswald

[@randyharris3175]

You know what he probably got that from Jim Lavelle I heard him say in an interview that the holster snap had not been undone.Considering this is 50 years after the fact and were not at the Tippit scene.that is understandable.Witness said after Tippit left the car he did not have his pistol out so he must have been able to get it out in the process of getting shot.I think Calloway placed his gun on top.of the hood.

[@amberjean1107]

Has Mr. Boone passed away? This interview is very interesting and very informative to fellow historians. He's very descriptive in his recount of the event of JFK'S assassination and events that shocked the world.

[@franklinbolander1916]

PASSED AWAY IN 2017!

[@amberjean1107]

@@franklinbolander1916 thank you what a legend

[@franklinbolander1916]

@@amberjean1107 YES AMBER MR BOONE VERY NICE MAN...ME AND M6 POP'S LIVED NEAR HIM IN DALLAS AREA BACK IN THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION TIME FRAME!...MY POPS WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF A FRIEND OF MR BOONE!.

[@lennon1252]

He lied and he lived to old age. Roger Dean Craig told the truth and was killed at 39.

[@fernfreeman1729]

Buell's first statement to the detectives was that he hadn't noticed the gun packaged in brown paper in the back seat, all he did was glance at it quickly, as he settled in at the wheel. Secondly, when Oswald walked away with it, he didn't look at him until he was a football field distance away, as he was busy figuring out if his battery had enough charge. Buell never saw much of anything but the mistake he made was to try and convince others that the package was only 24-26 inches long. This prompted a list of conspiracies the likes of which will never end and it's sad.

[@oldgoldtopgoldtop6039]

I have seen interviews with Mr. Fraiser. He continues to be angry with the way he feels the police, particularly Captain Will Fritz, treated him. I expect all of the authorities questioning the 19 year old thought it at least a possibility he was involved and may have been suspicious of why Wesley failed to be skeptical of Oswald's curtain rod claim. It's conceivable Fraiser felt compelled to insist on s smaller package which he put into his signed his sworn statement.

[@peterfraser9070]

You really nailed it, yes. :) Not some silly theory.

[@wolverine67044]

Fbi agent interviewed buell's mother. She stated Lee came over to catch a ride to work with my son & he had nothing in his hands. Also a manager at the book depository stated oswald was not carrying anything when he came to work that morning.

[@peterfraser9070]

@@wolverine67044 Fbi agent interviewed buell's mother. She stated Lee came over to catch a ride to work with my son & he had nothing in his hands.": So you have to interject with a phony statement like that. So sad people believe stuff they read in books written by people with an obvious financial motive.

[@janetphillips2875]

​@@oldgoldtopgoldtop6039Fritz should've been talking to a mirror.

[@jimbo16720]

One of the problems is most people don't read the testimony from these people and just go by what they hear. I go back to what they said at the time and figure it out from that.

[@billkeon880]

yes, a worthy statement. Need to go back to original testimony at the earliest stages. Memories do NOT get better over the years. However, even at the best of times eye-witness testimony is about the least reliable form of evidence there is (as per Neil de Grasse Tyson's famous quote). All people who lean on EWT need to do more research into this. Check out the "Innocence Project" and the psych research. This does explain many of the conflicting testimonies of multiple Oswalds and the facts that an honest, straight shooter like Roger Craig could just be wrong about some things like seeing Oswald and Ruby in front of the TSBD just seconds after the shooting, when in fact Ruby was placed by many people inside the newspaper office doing business and Oswald had a stamped bus pass on him which put him elsewhere (not driving a Rambler) and the Taxi driver dropped him near his rooming house. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKvTmKx_gKeGapI kzbin.info/www/bejne/omGYf3qmlN9piqs kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnOVgJidfpuqrKs

[@C2owner]

I would like to hear what Mr. Boone has to say about Roger Craig

[@timhawks6101]

Boone made comments about Craig in this video.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

@@timhawks6101 He did talk about Craig, but clearly did not know enough about the details to make legitimate commentary...He did say that Craig-s story needed corroboration......Roger Craig clearly had mental issues brewing, and he committed suicide a few years after the event.

[@peterfraser9070]

Basically Boone indicated that Roger Craig made claims that there has never been any evidence to back up.

[@aaronz7056]

All of Craig's crackpot claims were consistently flatly contradicted by every other witness present, by hard evidence, and frequently by himself with his wildly varying stories.

[@bobdrinski4210]

This is no nightmare on Elm Street,this actually happened.

[@MichaelMartinez-kk9km]

The Roger Craig version of events is very well known. Why not just point blank ask Mr. Boone about Mr. Craig's description that the rifle was stamped "7.65 mauser" right on the barrel?

[@MTGrad1]

Enjoyed it as always!

[@lifetimes2983]

Perhaps I missed it but I did not hear anyone ask Mr. Boone the seemingly obvious question which is Was it firmly stablished that the rifle Boone discovered had actually been fired ?

[@peterfraser9070]

Sure, they tested the Carano found there, and it was the rifle that fired the shots in question.

[@paulguapo5808]

@@peterfraser9070 to the exclusion of all others , and eugene knows that there was no other gunmen on the grassy knoll. as for his horse shit not based on any facts his opinion that there might have been a conspiracy means nothing in the face of the evidence that him and buel seem to disregard , in the end Lee oswald did this and no one was involved with him

[@jimbo16720]

It was Billy Williams that had the chicken and Dr Pepper on the sixth floor and said he left around 12:10. His testimony is found in the link below from the Warren Commission. He said he didn't see anyone else on the 6th floor while he was there.

[@peterfraser9070]

Bonnie Ray Williams said the chicken dinner was his, and that he left around 12:15 to 12:20. A person - Oswald - was then spotted from outside starting around 12:20. Obviously, that person - Oswald - had been on the 6th floor, but was hiding.

[@JfK--OBJECTivE]

@@peterfraser9070 total nonsense as usual from this guy,.

[@peterfraser9070]

@@JfK--OBJECTivE Yes, this "Jimbo" character is not too exact about his details.

[@redawson001]

I thought it was literally read off the barrel "Mouser"?

[@Caeruleo]

"I thought it was literally read off the barrel "Mouser"?" ITYM "Mauser," and not one witness who saw the rifle on the sixth floor ever said they saw that word on the rifle until the 1970s, long after the assassination, and the one and only one of those witnesses who said that in the 1970s was Roger Craig. Not one of the other witnesses ever corroborated him, and he himself had given a different story in the 1960s.

[@rogerscottcathey]

If they weren't sure, in their written reports, why'd they definitively write "7.65 Mauser", and not "it looked like a Mauser" or "Mauser type". Read their reports.

[@janetphillips2875]

Of course he's going to say Decker didnt tell them to stand down. If he had said yes, well everything he told here was worthless

[@peterfraser9070]

where did you hear that decker said that and how do you know decker's words - if they are his - were not twisted around?

[@peterfraser9070]

You're not making the tiniest bit of sense.

[@figgybass]

Great interview!!

[@dr.willyvan2116]

A Freudian slip I like how he mentioned Mr. Mauser instead of Bowers

[@randyharris3175]

I like how Lee Boweres told him he didnt hear no shots.

[@peterfraser9070]

You sir, are no doctor, lol.

[@banitsaboy144]

Why isn’t there any pictures of the bag where the rifle was in and carried into the Texas school book depository that morning by lee Harvey Oswald I mean pictures of the bag on the 6th fl?the police took pictures of the rifle and the bullet shells on the floor but no picture of the bag?

[@peterfraser9070]

apparently there was a picture of the bag, sure

[@karenmainor4275]

There is film of a police officer bringing a long paper bag out of the TSBD building. No film of them finding it on the 6th floor.

[@dr.willyvan2116]

Great interview about the original nightmare on Elm Street

[@dphinman6952]

Fritz, Weitzman, Boone, Craig, and Day all identified the Mauser while still on the 6th floor. Boone's WC testimony: "This is when Lt. Day, I believe his name is, the ID man, was getting ready to photograph it (the Mauser). We were just discussing it back and forth. And he said it looks like a 7.65 Mauser." (WC - 3H295) Boone submitted two affidavits identifying the Mauser, and testified that Fritz and Day both identified the Mauser, as well. There is no mention of ANY of this in the Warren Commission Report. And you wonder why they didn't index the volumes of evidence?

[@louf7178]

Bowers "expanded" his statement? He flat out changed it. Maybe denial is nerves at the immediate questioning.

[@peterfraser9070]

"Bowers "expanded" his statement? He flat out changed it. Maybe denial is nerves at the immediate questioning.": Yeah and said he didn't hear shots or see anything out of the ordinary. Later, Mark Lane happened, tragically.

[@janetphillips2875]

....he found the rifle.....he had also worked at the Dallas Morning News.......knew Jack Ruby..... How many claimed to have found the rifle? Tom Dealey, who owned DMN despised JFK. How many cops knew Jack Ruby? There is a little circle of buds.

[@Doug41160]

His statement about Lee Bowers is false! Bowers did see activity before the shooting and noticed a flash of light during the shooting at the fence!

[@randyharris3175]

So Bowers says I dont believe him he didnt saybthst until he talked to Mark Lane.Bowers talked to Boone minutes after the assassanstion.

[@randyharris3175]

So Bowers says I dont believe him he didnt saybthst until he talked to Mark Lane.Bowers talked to Boone minutes after the assassanstion.

[@peterfraser9070]

Do you think that, right after the shooting, Boone asked and was told by Bowers that Bowers had just seen some extremely suspicious activity - like someone shooting - then Boone just totally ignored that? Wow, why would Boone do that?? Lol.

[@dks13827]

Lee was not in Cuba. ( 39:40 ) Also, there was not enough time, prior to the JFK visit, for any real planning by more than LHO.

[@dallasbrubaker6054]

And how much time is required?

[@donbartels153]

I noticed that slip up also. Perhaps he meant Mexico City, where he was placed and handled by the CIA. The CIA got away with murder.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

And it is important to remember--the parade route was published in the Dallas newspaper, a few days before the event took place...even more important, is the fact that Oswald, way out of character, had asked Frazier to take him to spend the night with his family on a THURSDAY night, not the usual Friday/weekend situation...He clearly was a desperately upset man---he wanted to get his rifle...yet his wife testified that he had begged her to move back with him, promising to be more considerate to her, etc...She said no, he hardly slept that night, then adopted his "plan B"....leaving her with the bulk of his money, and taking off his wedding ring, leaving it in a tea cup...and then taking his rifle, in that bag he had made, to the TSBD on Friday morning...He told Frazier that it was Curtain rods for his apartment...none were found in the building, and his apartment already had curtain rods in use!...Such a pathetic, sad situation--that the entire World was made to suffer for!

[@curbozerboomer1773]

Good catch--he had gone to Mexico, and hit up both the Cuban embassy, and the Soviet Embassy...it is fairly clear, that his sick fantasy was, that he was a soldier of fortune for Cuba's regime--even though Cuba did not want him, or need him!...In his "Historical Diary", his essentially crazy need to make a difference in the world was spelled out....He was a train wreck, waiting to happen.

[@realitychannelwithtomparos8238]

@@curbozerboomer1773 the CIA killed President Kennedy.I have no doubt in my mind.

[@janetphillips2875]

The large wooden crates up against the wall are questionable. Looks like a good place to store rifles. Also, some of the book boxes are labeled ' Spencer's Gift's". Whats that about?? The painted number 6 on the support column looks like it was once a 5. There was an extension plug lying in the floor, although I could not find a tablesaw in the pictures. I believe it was a mauser, then they switched the gun out.

[@peterfraser9070]

Excuse me, what is that mumbo jumbo you are rambling on about? Can you explain yourself?

[@peterfraser9070]

What is the significance of the large wooden crates up against the wall, some of the book boxes being labeled ' Spencer's Gift's", or the painted number 6 on the support column looks like it was once a 5? I don't get it.

[@janetphillips2875]

​@@peterfraser9070just cant stand it, can you? 😂

[@peterfraser9070]

Stand what? You're not making a lot of sense.

[@jimbo16720]

Funny when he talked to Bowers he said he didn't hear any shots or see anyone. That's not what he says when he was interviewed by Mark Lane on video.

[@boblackey1]

You can't believe anything Mark Lane says. He is a crank and deluded. He refuses to hear the REAL facts in the assassination and goes down those rabbit holes into the conspiracy theory twilight zone. Dallas news man Pierce Allman was standing in front of this building and like ALL the news men in the motorcade, there were ONLY three shots. Allman thought the first was a firecracker then realised it was gunfire. Allman said ALL three shots came from in front of him and above him from the TSBD. And when he finally looked up to where the shots were coming he saw three men (obviously the black guys) leaning out of windows on the 5th floor pointing up. I've listen to all the various news reports on TV and radio as the assassination unfolded in real time and very early reports just said "three shots were fired form somewhere in the crowd" to "the 4th floor" to "the fifth floor" to finally "the sixth floor". The first report I've heard about the chicken bones was on ABC radio and it was said they were found on the 5th floor.

[@jimbo16720]

bob lackey I'd believe him before the WC or the cops...just to much messed up in the most important investigation ever so far.

[@boblackey1]

jimbo16720 You'd believe Mark Lane before you would believe Eugene Boone? I feel sorry for you. Mark Lane is delusional and needs medication.

[@jimbo16720]

bob lackey If you went to the links I posted from the Warren Commission testimony you see Boone isn't stating facts about the chicken bones and Tippit's gun are just 2 things he said that are wrong. Plus Bower's testimony is wrong. So we know what he's saying isn't true but there is nothing proving Mark Lane wrong.

[@boblackey1]

jimbo16720 Nothing proving Mark Lane wrong??? Mark Lane is WRONG about everything except Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Texas. Mark Lane is living in a world of make believe.

[@dphinman6952]

Mark Lane: “Although I am personally not a rifle expert, I was able to determine that it was an Italian carbine because printed indelibly upon it are the words ‘Made Italy Cal. 6.5.’ I suggest it is very difficult for a police officer to pick up a weapon which has printed upon it clearly in English ‘Made Italy, Cal. 6.5’ and then the next day draft a sworn affidavit stating that it was in fact a German Mauser, 7.65 millimeters.” (WC,5H 560-561) Additionally, How could they have gotten the caliber wrong, not only in missing the plainly obvious stamp, as Lane pointed out, BUT THEY HAD THREE HULLS THAT HAD ALREADY BEEN FOUND, PLUS AN ALLEGED ROUND FOUND IN THE RIFLE. No jury in the world would believe this burlesque. OSWALD ACQUITTED.

[@BigBingFan]

Sound with Frazier was awesome; sound with Eugene Boone is lousy! Please fix it. Thanks for the interviews.

[@Michael-so2mh]

Boone is not the person that discovered the rifle. It was Paul Kenneth Wilkins, my uncle that discovered the rifle. At that time, my uncle was just an officer and Boone was above him. As for the living, I do not know if Boone is still alive. My uncle passed about a year and a half ago. My father has a copy of the original hand written report from when my uncle found the rifle. I was sent the link to this video from an archivist that worked on the 6th floor project for eight years. It was just today that we were talking about this and I had asked her if she remembered any of the historical documents that may have mentioned my uncle. PK Wilkins retired from DPD receiving a military burial for his time in the service with and recognition of his time with DPD.

[@peterfraser9070]

YOUR uncle, how convenient. And your great great great grandfather was Daniel Boone, too.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

@@peterfraser9070 After fifty years, your tale is very stale!...it needs a lot more corroboration.

[@peterfraser9070]

@@curbozerboomer1773 not sure if you meant to reply to me or not...my tale?

[@peterfraser9070]

@@curbozerboomer1773 I believe Mr. Boone here.

[@randyharris3175]

Thats incorrect

[@davidarbuckle7236]

So I want to know, Mr. Boone and Rodger Craig were on the 6th floor at the same time. And I know Mr Boone said that he discovered the gun at 1:22 PM. And he and Craig looked at the gun and Craig said it was a Mauser. Was Craig lying or did Mr. Boone agree? And also the officer who saw Oswald on the 2nd floor said it was about 90 seconds after the shots were fired. That would roughly be at 12;30 or so? When did the rest of the police and FBI show up to search for the rifles and bullet hulls?

[@janetphillips2875]

There was another guy there, the former gun store owner, Seymour Weitzman (sp)

[@davidarbuckle7236]

@@janetphillips2875 He also confirmed in an Affidavit that it was a 7.65 Mauser. That did not change for 36 hrs until the FBI realized that the Patsy owned a Carcano. Or at least H. Heidell did. There were 3 things the Warren Commission would never accept. 2 rifles, 4 shots, and Ruby knowing Oswald. (They were horribly wrong)

[@janetphillips2875]

@@davidarbuckle7236 if you could prove Oswald didn't kill Kennedy, who would you tell? ( I've asked several people that, and got answers like this: 1) nobody cares 2) I Would keep quite 3) the fbi 4) nobody talks about that case anymore What say you?

[@peterfraser9070]

@@davidarbuckle7236 You said Weitzman "confirmed" it was a Mauser? He and Boone mistakenly wrote it was a Mauser, then the mistake was corrected. It's as simple as that.

[@davidarbuckle7236]

@@peterfraser9070 He signed an Affidavit. He owned a Sporting Goods Store. He sold guns for a living. He was standing inches away from the gun. He read the make of the gun right off the barrel. It was reported as such until the FBI realized that Oswald didn't own a Mauser,.and they corrected his 'mistake'. But he was still murdered anyway along with Rodger Craig and anyone who disagreed with the official story of both murders. Multiple witnesses stated that there were multiple people on the 6th floor. "a dark complected man" with glasses was seen . Probably Mac Wallace. How else would his fingerprint be found there?

[@aaronpaterson1615]

GENE BOONE is wrong there, reference the snap on patrolman JD Tippit's gun holster was unsnapped because that ex-Marine car salesman said he found Tippit's gun on the ground under his body, grabbed it and placed it on the hood of Tippit's car and then placing it in the car. It was the same handgun that he grabbed and jumped into the cab driver's taxi to try and follow the man who he had seen earlier with a raised pistol in hand trotting past him to whom he yelled out, "Hey man, what in the hells goin' on?"

[@peterfraser9070]

No one's perfect, I guess.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

@@peterfraser9070 Good catch...and I have to admit, it seems that back then, officers would hire in, stay awhile, then leave, but maybe come back to the force later on!...the standards for being a cop seemed kinda low-bar to me...I think that the pay back then must have been crappy...even Tippit was moonlighting, doing security jobs, etc.

[@bobdrinski4210]

First Bowers tells Gene Boone he didn't hear any shots.Then he tells the Warren Commission he was hearing shots.Which is it? Can't tell both stories&they both can't be correct.

[@randyharris3175]

Bowers lied no doubt I would take Boones word over Bowers anyday.

[@randyharris3175]

According to Calloway Tippets.gun was out laying on the ground.Boone I believe is mistaken in this I also heard Leavelle say the same thing.

[@randyharris3175]

Boone is correct.

[@darrenmccarthy3346]

Frustrating witness if you ask me. Notice there is no follow-up regarding the original identification of the rifle as a Mauser ? Boone was not the only officer to identify it in this fashion, there were at least two others. Another thing, he states he was 24 years old at the time, when in fact he was 26. I know that maybe you shouldn’t nitpick about this, but come on ! The biggest thing to happen in your professional lifetime as a cop, and you can’t even get your age right ?

[@Caeruleo]

"Boone was not the only officer to identify it in this fashion, there were at least two others." Yes and no. Only one other person who saw the rifle while it was on the sixth floor ever identified it, even temporarily, as a Mauser, not only in 1963-64, but for the entire remainder of the decade of the 1960s. Roger Craig did not claim the rifle to be a Mauser for the first time until the 1970s, and he had to contradict his own previous statements and the statements of the other sixth floor witnesses to do so. In March of 1968 he said of the rifle: "I couldn't give its name because I don't know foreign rifles, I know it was foreign made, and you loaded it downward into a built-in clip. The ID man took it and ejected one live round from it. The scope was facing north, the bolt facing upwards and the trigger south." So in 1968 Roger Craig said that he didn't have a clue what type of rifle it was, other than "foreign." But in the 1970s he "suddenly remembered" for the first time that he had actually seen the word "Mauser" on the rifle, something never corroborated by any of the other sixth floor witnesses, including Eugene Boone himself, and the only other person who even temporarily identified the rifle as being a Mauser in the 1960s, Seymour Weitzman. In no statement they ever made, on film or in writing, did Boone and Weitzman ever say that they saw the word "Mauser" on the rifle, or any other words, or any letters, or any numerals. Notice how even in this video Boone never says that he saw any words, or letters, or numerals on the rifle. Boone and Weitzman also never said that they had ever seen a Carcano before that day. In fact, neither of them ever said that they had even known the word "Carcano" itself before that day, or had ever known that there was ever a rifle by that name ever made. Thus neither of them can be reasonably considered to be qualified to know the difference between a Carcano and a Mauser without a close examination.

[@Caeruleo]

"Another thing, he states he was 24 years old at the time, when in fact he was 26. I know that maybe you shouldn’t nitpick about this, but come on ! The biggest thing to happen in your professional lifetime as a cop, and you can’t even get your age right ?" His obituary says he was born on December 15, 1937. Thus on November 22, 1963, he would have been 25 years old, not 26. He would not have turned 26 until several weeks after the assassination. So, wow, he was one year off on his age at the time in this present interview. That's such a "significant" mistake...not. And maybe it was just a slip of the tongue in this one interview, saying "24" instead of "25." People do that all the time, especially when talking about an event that happened more than half a century earlier. Did he make this same trivial mistake in all the other interviews he ever gave about that day, or is this the only interview he ever gave in which he accidentally said he was "24" instead of "25" on the day of the assassination?

[@darrenmccarthy3346]

@@Caeruleo , you must be a Warren Report supporter. ‘Nuff said.

[@Caeruleo]

@@darrenmccarthy3346 "you must be a Warren Report supporter. ‘Nuff said." Oh, so just because I truthfully pointed out that Eugene Boone never said he saw the word "Mauser" on the rifle or any other words, or letters, or numerals, that just all by itself makes me a "Warren Report supporter"? And just because I truthfully corrected you about his age and pointed out that it was a trivial mistake all by itself makes me a "Warren Report supporter"? And just because I truthfully pointed out that Roger Craig did not say the rifle was a Mauser for the first time in his life until the 1970s and that he had previously claimed something quite different (I even quoted him verbatim in his own exact words giving a significantly different story) that just all by itself makes me a "Warren Report supporter"? So in other words telling the truth makes me a "Warren Report supporter"? Well now, if telling the truth is all it takes to become a Warren Report supporter then I suppose I should be proud to be one. Except that I will also tell the truth and say that I do not agree with everything in the Warren Report. And if you are this quick to jump to the wrong conclusion about me personally, how do the rest of us know that you aren't equally quick to jump to the wrong conclusions about the JFK assassination? 'Nuff said.

[@darrenmccarthy3346]

@@Caeruleo , LHO did not pull the trigger on a rifle that day, that I know for certain. He was a patsy, pure and simple. Call it a Mauser, Carcano, British Enfield…..bottom line, the assassination did not go down the way the WR said it did. ‘Nuff said lol

[@jimbo16720]

Another problem with his testimony....Oswald didn't eat the chicken...The black guy said he did but wasn't in the same spot.

[@boblackey1]

Well it looks as if Oswald may have eaten chicken. Boone says the chicken dinner was found at the sniper's nest window. But that doesn't necessarily mean it was eaten by Oswald. Oswald may have noticed it there and didn't move it. The three black guys were on the 5th floor just under the sniper's nest and could hear the bolt action sound and the shell casings hit above them so it's possible Boone saw the chicken on the 5th floor and now 50 years later can't remember accurately. But there is NO question Boone has laid to rest the view held my many authors of conspiracy theory books that two rifles or a Mauser was actually found but later switched and covered up by a bunch of lying conspiracy cover up police and government agents. These conspiracy theory advocates just don't have a leg to stand on.

[@jimbo16720]

bob lackey The one black guy said he ate his chicken on the 6th floor at the 3rd window I think it was and didn't see anyone else up there. He then went down to the 5th floor with his friends.

[@jimbo16720]

history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh3/html/WC_Vol3_0181b.htm

[@geoffreyjohnstone5465]

@@boblackey1 2 of the 3 guys underneath the "snipers nest" did NOT hear the rifle bolt. 2 of the 3 guys underneath also said 2 shots were very close together. Boone, Craig and numerous other law enforcement officials all saw the chicken remains and a small bag on the 6th floor. Oddly, none of them saw a 38 inch bag. Most of them would have had to have been stood on it but they didnt see it. Fritz walked right around the window area and testified he never saw it and the bag was found after he left. It doesnt appear at all in a single photograph in the TSBD, not even incidentally in photos of boxes, the window, the shells etc The biggest farce of all is when Lt Day is asked about the soda bottle that was also found up there. He said he dusted the bottle for prints but when they didnt match Oswalds he threw the bottle away. That tells you all you need to know, they were not interested in anything that shows it might not have been Oswald. The Commission didnt even ask him, whose they were or any follow up

[@boblackey1]

@@geoffreyjohnstone5465 Are you calling Harold Norman a liar? Harold Norman responded to the other two when one said he believed someone was shooting at the President "I know somebody is..I could hear the rifle being worked and the hulls hit the floor. And one of the other men had dust and plaster in his hair from the rife shots from just above rattling the building. The FBI didn't believe Norman but with him standing on the 5th floor with them an agent on the 6th floor worked to bolt and bingo! They COULD hear the bolt being worked and the shells hitting the floor above their heads. Robert MacNeil of NBC News said as they turned into Dealey Plaza on the press bus they heard a loud noise and they were saying "What was that? A backfire? A firecracker?" Then two note shots were fired closer together and MacNeil said " Those are shots! Stop the bus..let me off." MacNeil said he saw police rushing up the grassy hill so he followed then and they went over the fence so he went over the fence too and there was nothing there. Just empty railroad tracks. There were ONLY 3 SHOTS ALL FIRED FROM THE 6TH FLOOR with a bolt action rifle owned by Oswald who worked there with access to the entire building. You conspiracy theorists have been trying to get Oswald off the 6th floor and claiming shots fired from the storm drain, DalTex building and every other location with ZERO results for 57 YEARS now!! NO other shooter or shooters have even been positivity identified or the weapon or weapons and who was behind it!! CIA?, Secret Service?, Pentagon?, Cuba?, Russia?, Mafia? NO proof at all. Just smoke and mirrors and hand waving. 57 years and no deathbed confession, Mark Lane is dead and never solved it. The ONLY person left is the first person. Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK with an Italian Carcano bolt action rifle he owned AND HE ACTED ALONE! This case was solved within hours after it was perpetrated by the Dallas Police Department. 57 years. And 57 years from now the results with still be the same. Why? Because it is the way it happened. Oswald did it alone.

[@lennon1252]

People are under the mistaken impression that no one other than Lee Harvey Oswald left the Texas School Book Depository at the time of President Kennedy’s assassination. The following persons who also worked at TSBD left the building without notifying building supervisor Roy Truly: Danny Arce, 18, left at 1:00 pm, accompanied by the police, to go to City Hall. Carolyn Arnold, 20, left at 12:25 pm and did not return. Virgie Rachley, 18, left at 11:45 am and returned at 12:40 pm but was denied entry. Jack Carson, 56, president of TSBD, left at 12:10 pm and did not return. Betty Drago, 27, left at 12:20 pm but found the door locked when she returned. She stayed outside TSBD until 2:30 pm before going home. Buell Wesley Frazier, 19, famously gave Oswald a lift to work that day. He left TSBD between 1:00 and 2:00 pm, about the same time Truly claims he made his roll call. Charles Givens, 38, returned to TSBD after the shooting but was refused entry by a Dallas policeman. An APB was put out for him, and he was later interviewed at City Hall by Captain Will Fritz. Truly was aware of Given’s absence, having seen him prior to the assassination. Truly also saw Oswald prior to his encounter with him in the second-floor lunchroom. Using that logic, Oswald should have been exonerated as well. Gloria Holt, 18, left at 12:10 pm and did not return. Stella Jacob, 20, left at noon and did not return. Judy Johnson, 20, was standing outside TSBD when the shooting began. She remained in the area until 2:00 pm then went home. Dolores Kounas, 32, left at 12:15 pm and stayed outside until 3:00 pm. Sharon Nelson, 19, left at 12:20 pm and never returned. She lived at 409 East 9th Street, near the site where Officer J.D. Tippit was gunned down. Roberta Parker, 55, left at a time unknown, and said she wasn’t allowed back in until 3:30 pm. Bonnie Richey, 20, left the building at 12:20 pm and never returned. Lloyd Viles, 41, left at 12:15 pm and returned at 2:55 pm. Vida Whatley, 45, left at 12:15 pm to go shopping. She tried to re-enter TSBD at 1:00 pm but was denied entry by the police. She went home. Bonnie Ray Williams, 20, accompanied Arce to the police station at 1:00 pm.

[@marilynmcfann295]

Very interesting-!!!

[@BK-uf6qr]

I like his style. He was a witness to history but resisted the gravitational pull to ever embellish. I do think many “witnesses” exaggerate and flat out lie for attention and recognition. Jack Ruby was the grandest of them all. Such an event drove many people to say things that weren’t true and I think many did this by design. To elevate themselves from a nobody to a somebody. All you had to do was say something in a certain way. And of course there were many eager people who want to hear something wild or salacious. It’s been a bad combo.

[@peterfraser9070]

"Jack Ruby was the grandest of them all": Exactly, with his, "The world will never know the true facts...." Only him. B.S.

[@JfK--OBJECTivE]

@@peterfraser9070 nonsense comment.

[@peterfraser9070]

You're posting to the wrong person; you're getting your objective mixed up.

[@randyharris3175]

P hamilton did Frazier ot say there was a lunch truck that stopped there

[@davidmoss4280]

Roger Craig’s version of Oswald’s escape route has been shot to pieces for several reasons, firstly because of key witness Mary Bledsoe, an ex landlady of Oswald’s who was on the bus and clearly saw him according to her testimony, secondly because of the bus transfer in Oswald’s possession at the time of his arrest which had an indelible punch mark that was confirmed by the bus driver, thirdly the cab driver testified and appeared at a police line up and identified Oswald as his passenger who he dropped off at Beckley and lastly and most importantly, Oswald admitted riding the bus and cab home that afternoon, which conclusively puts Craig’s version to bed.

[@lennon1252]

It doesn't put it to bed because Oswald told Capt. FRITZ, "that station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine, don't bring her into this" Also, Craig was on the other side of the street, there was a lot of excitement and commotion and confusion. He could have seen someone that resembled Oswald. That doesn't make Craig dishonest.

[@jetcat132]

@@lennon1252Yeah, so what?

[@lennon1252]

@@jetcat132 So there were a lot of documented witnesses who claimed to have seen Oswald weeks and months before, in places he was not. Even the CIA got caught lying when they said they had pictures and voice recordings of Oswald in Mexico City. Mark Lane destroyed them on the witness stand. Also there were witnesses in the Texas Theater that claimed they saw Oswald in the balcony when he was never up there. USAF Sgt. Robert Vinson wrote a book about seeing a person who looked exactly like Oswald getting on a plane he was on at the same time Oswald was in custody in Dallas. There is an eye witness who saw who HE thought was Oswald leaving with a police officer out the back of the Texas Theater. So Roger Craig may have seen someone who looked like Oswald. There is an entire book written by John Armstrong called Harvey and Lee.

[@lennon1252]

@@jetcat132 So there were a lot of documented witnesses who claimed to have seen Oswald weeks and months before, in places he was not. Even the CIA got caught lying when they said they had pictures and voice recordings of Oswald in Mexico City. Mark Lane destroyed them on the witness stand. Also there were witnesses in the Texas Theater that claimed they saw Oswald in the balcony when he was never up there. USAF Sgt. Robert Vinson wrote a book about seeing a person who looked exactly like Oswald getting on a plane he was on at the same time Oswald was in custody in Dallas. There is an eye witness who saw who HE thought was Oswald leaving with a police officer out the back of the Texas Theater. So Roger Craig may have seen someone who looked like Oswald. There is an entire book written by John Armstrong called Harvey and Lee.

[@lennon1252]

@@davidmoss4280 So there were a lot of documented witnesses who claimed to have seen Oswald weeks and months before, in places he was not. Even the CIA got caught lying when they said they had pictures and voice recordings of Oswald in Mexico City. Mark Lane destroyed them on the witness stand. Also there were witnesses in the Texas Theater that claimed they saw Oswald in the balcony when he was never up there. USAF Sgt. Robert Vinson wrote a book about seeing a person who looked exactly like Oswald getting on a plane he was on at the same time Oswald was in custody in Dallas. There is an eye witness who saw who HE thought was Oswald leaving with a police officer out the back of the Texas Theater. So Roger Craig may have seen someone who looked like Oswald. There is an entire book written by John Armstrong called Harvey and Lee.

[@BostonWhoFan515]

8 likes and 0 dislikes. so sad the official "true" story gets disreguarded as much as it does.

[@TvDaddyAndTheTabloidArmy]

absolutely. it should be 8 to 20 M.

[@louf7178]

I believe his opinion and motive of Ruby.

[@leemoore9933]

Go back in time and Im sure I would bet my life on it you would see LHO sitting in that perch racking off those shots it all just make to much sense along with all the know, factual evidence. Occams razor! this fits pretty well. Remember it was only 88 yrds with a scoped rifle with a marine that scored sharp shooter badge at the edson range usmc. That's the 2nd highest badge in the Marine Corp. You have Expert, Sharp shooter, and the old pizza box badge Marksman. With a little luck and practice working that action and his training he could have easily pulled that off. Hell i have know 14-15 olds that have shot deer at 250 yards out of a tree stand.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

And think about the fact, that each shot got closer to his ultimate target--the head of JFK...this is typical of target shooting--you get dialed in with each shot.

[@leemoore9933]

@@curbozerboomer1773 True, I have shot that rifle he used and it was a pretty good rifle I shot good groups with it at 200 yards, the action (working the bolt) worked pretty well too. There isn't a doubt in my mind their was only one shooter that day and it was LHO.

[@36swill]

Rifle was out of scope when found. Thick trees in the way at the time of the shooting. Far too many wounds to be only 3 shots. Timing of zapuder film doesn't add up for only 3 shots. Kennedys head went back and to the left for fatal head shot. I could go on, but what more evidence do you need?

[@peterfraser9070]

@@36swill Your points are pointless because you don't even have your "facts" straight, lol. Come back when you have something real to offer.

[@JfK--OBJECTivE]

@@peterfraser9070 the clown that keeps giving lol.

[@VTPSTTU]

Interesting interview I wish they had isolated the entire plaza and done a real search for evidence. Maybe things would have been different.

[@billkeon880]

they did find a ton of evidence as it was. I suggest reading Bugliosi book.

[@michaelivey1087]

@@billkeon880 Dont have time to read Fiction!

[@billkeon880]

....then don't read conspiracy books. I own, and have read, over 25 conspiracy books including Marrs, two by Mark Lane, Garrison, Groden & Livingston, Douglass, Lifton etc. Very few based their arguments on facts. Most relied on hearsay, motive, eye-witness testimony (the worst kind of evidence normally, and much worse when people who state they saw something changed their story from the initial weeks after the assassination when they said they saw nothing!!). It's exactly what conspiracy theories are always built on. I was a conspiracy buff since about 1987 but changed my mind about three years ago after reading (for the first time) the counter side to conspiracy. I'm guessing you haven't read any either. My take on it was always "I don't read fiction"... Bugliosi's book is over 1,500 pages with 1,200 pages of footnotes and sources. It deals with the facts not conjecture. John McAdams, Larry Sturdivan, Posner, Norman Mailer, Patricia Lambert and many others have written credible books that look at original sourcing and steer away from conjecture. You need to be open to the counter side, otherwise you become like a creationist who won't even acknowledge or read any actual evolution science.

[@michaelivey1087]

@@billkeon880 Then the WC is on the up and up? BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@stevegray2634]

@@billkeon880 why did Oswald totally deny shooting anyone??? Why not take credit?? Plus the 2nd and 3rd shots were practically on top of each other negating a sole assassin!!

[@scottspaine4864]

Stephen---I have always wondered why did the police go directly to the sixth floor? Or were all floors searched, including the 7th floor?

[@randyharris3175]

First officer went to the roof wonder why they seen the pigeins flying off the roof

[@geoffreyjohnstone5465]

@@randyharris3175 You said, "First officer went to the roof wonder why they seen the pigeins flying off the roof" Thats actually incorrect....Baker went to the 2nd floor lunch room and put a pistol in Oswalds chest. Truly ran up the stairs in front of Baker and didnt see what Baker said he saw. In all fairness, Bakers original statement didnt even have him meeting Oswald in the 2nd floor lunch room but spoke of an encounter on the 3rd or 4th stairway with an unnamed person wearing different clothes to Oswald. An interesting fact is that Baker wrote his statement in the room whilst Oswald was being interrogated right next to him but he doesnt even say it was Oswald or even the man in custody

[@randyharris3175]

All floors were searched.

[@randyharris3175]

@@geoffreyjohnstone5465 Truly did se the same thing Baker saw.

[@randyharris3175]

@@geoffreyjohnstone5465Your whole statementbis wrong except the sound and the pigeons attracted Baker to the Depository that's what i meant

[@Bbendfender]

I still have a question about the rifle. Roger Craig clearly stated that he saw stamped on the rifle "Mauser 7.65" Seems like Boone was the first to say "Mauser". I'll always believe a Mauser was used on the 6th floor, maybe not by Oswald but possibly by Malcolm Wallace.

[@Caeruleo]

"I still have a question about the rifle. Roger Craig clearly stated that he saw stamped on the rifle "Mauser 7.65"" He did not say that for the first time until the 1970s, long after the assassination. Prior to that he had said specifically that he had no earthly idea what type of rifle it was other than "foreign." And no other witness who saw the rifle on the sixth floor that day ever said they saw the word "Mauser" anywhere on the rifle. This claim comes from Roger Craig alone, without any corroboration whatsoever. "Seems like Boone was the first to say "Mauser"." Actually it was both Eugene Boone and Seymour Weitzman. Both of them submitted documents on the day of the assassination saying the rifle was, or appeared to be, a Mauser. However neither them ever said, in those original documents or in any statement they ever gave afterward, that they saw the word "Mauser" on the rifle, and in fact neither of them ever said that they saw any words, or letters, or numerals on the rifle at all. "I'll always believe a Mauser was used on the 6th floor" Based on what evidence? "maybe not by Oswald but possibly by Malcolm Wallace." Oh dear, it's the silly Malcolm Wallace myth again. I'd suggest you study the origin of that myth more closely. Those who promote that myth incorrectly claim that there was a fingerprint found on one of the boxes on the sixth floor in 1963 that was never identified during the original 1963-1964 investigation, and that much, much later, in 1998, this supposedly unidentified fingerprint was finally matched to a known fingerprint of Mac Wallace which had been taken in 1951. But the people who claim this have not done proper research. All fingerprints lifted from the boxes were matched during the original investigation to persons known at the time to have handled the boxes, such as various TSBD employees and members of law enforcement. The one and only print found on the boxes that was not identified during the original investigation was a palm print, not a fingerprint. But the print claimed in 1998 and since to "match" that of Wallace is a fingerprint.

[@Bbendfender]

@@Caeruleo If they want anything from Ruth Paine, they better get it soon because she ain't gonna last forrever. She very well could be involved in some way.

[@Caeruleo]

@@Bbendfender "If they want anything from Ruth Paine, they better get it soon because she ain't gonna last forrever. She very well could be involved in some way." Not sure what on earth this has to do with Roger Craig or Mac Wallace. Is your evasion of everything I said about them a tacit admission that you can't prove that anything I said about them is incorrect? As for Ruth Paine, "they've" had nearly 60 years to "get" information from her and about her and it has still never come even remotely close to being proven that she was knowingly involved in the assassination, thus the chances that it ever will be proven, before or after her death, seem minuscule in the extreme.

[@davidcouch6514]

Did Sheriff’s Dept have concurrent criminal jurisdiction in the City of Dallas?

[@johnadams5489]

David Couch The Sheriff Department is a COUNTY entity.

[@randyharris3175]

Bowers said he did not see anything and heard no shots funny how he changed his story when Mark Lane got a hold of him wonder why?

[@johnadams5489]

Randy Harris Yes, and apparently Bowers was not telling the Warren Commission the truth either. Another enhanced conspiracy story. Mark Lane PAID Bowers for his interview, imagine that.

[@randyharris3175]

@@johnadams5489 sounds right how about his so called suspisious death what is your thinking on that?

[@johnadams5489]

@@randyharris3175 Bowers did not die a suspicious death. There were 3 people that saw the accident that killed him. A farmer on a Tractor across the way said that his car "drifted" off the road and drove head on into a concrete abutment, probably at 50 miles an hour. The conspiracy kooks said that there was a "Black car that ran him off the road". More conspiracy kook horse shit. A car that "some" witnesses said was on the road when Bowers crashed was NOT behind Bowers car and had nothing to do with the crash. Both Bower brothers had allergies and took meds for their problem. I don't know that the meds had anything to do with the crash, but it was a one car accident. Concrete does NOT give.

[@randyharris3175]

@@johnadams5489 thanks for the info Question fo you have a history with Jack D this conspiracy kook is really getting on my nerves

[@johnadams5489]

@@randyharris3175 I don't recall the name of a Jack D. The majority of these conspiracy kooks have watched one too many youtube videos, have swallowed someone else's opinion about the assassination, and the majority of them have no training and experience with firearms, and certainly none of them are ballistic experts by any means. Many of these people come onto youtube looking for "Approval" of their opinion, even though their opinion has no basis in fact. Others come here for a Debate, and all of them have turned youtube into a 21st Century Gossip column. They don't let FACTS get in the way of their ignorance. I've heard a limited number of arguments out of these people, they're very repetitious. Yawn. I had another conspiracy kook parrot the "Back and to the left" yesterday. That statement is over 50 years old. No matter, they latch onto a scenario that they swallow, and they keep repeating it no matter what anyone says. If you can provide a link to where this Jack D hangs out, I will be happy to see what he's up too.

[@Joepacalypse1107]

The rifle that he found is not the rifle that Oswald ordered or had photos taken with.

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

Och away & boil yer heid ya daftie! It was Oswald's rifle & stop deluding yourself otherwise.

[@Joepacalypse1107]

@@KeithWilliamMacHendry So tell me why the one in the photo of him holding the rifle, and the one that they found are different. Im not a conspiracy guy at all, but that is a fact. The sling mount is in different positions. If they had been moved, there would be holes for the previous position. The barrel is a different length also. Not only do they differ from the photo, but they differ from what was ordered.

[@peterfraser9070]

@@Joepacalypse1107 I highly doubt that stuff about different barrel length has the tiniest bit of credibility to it. You've just heard that stuff somewhere and have no idea about it personally.

[@dco1487]

@@Joepacalypse1107 that's not true, look again there's so much fake stuff inline about it

[@Eyewonder3210]

Conspiracy theorist ppl seem to think they are perfect at observing, everyone who was there who doesnt agree with their secret conspiracy is a liar, while they are honest and more intelligent. But don't make any changes in one tiny detail or their perfect memories they have will think they hit the jackpot for a book.

[@mrsinister8943]

My big question is the placement of the three shots and how many witnesses claim that the last two shots were close together which would make it impossible to come from LHO and thus another gunman. Another thing that could of proved it disproven the magic bullet is the fact that governor Connelly never had the fragments taken out of him and his wife wouldn't let the fragments be removed from him when he died. That could of been huge. I always felt like the Connelly's knew more. I will admit that there's alot of evidence to support the lone gunman theory but there's just so many strange happenings and things that should of been done differently and witnesses saying different things.

[@randyharris3175]

How do you judge that? Close could be 3 seconds plenty of time to get the third shot off.

[@randyharris3175]

@@wallacebell4311 Wallace I think your right.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

@@randyharris3175 Yeah, the closeness of the last two shots--heard mostly by those near the Knoll, was likely an echo situation from the last shot....over 70% of the witnesses heard three, quite evenly spaced shots, coming from the Depository.

[@randyharris3175]

@@curbozerboomer1773 I agree plus one witness Kilduff said he was 100% sure 3 shots came ftom over his right shoulder he said he couldn't have heard them that clearly ifvthey came from the knoll

[@peterfraser9070]

@@wallacebell4311 "Now known too be 4.9 seconds between the second shot and the third shot": Is that the same as what the Z Film indicates? I thought it was slightly more, like 5.5 seconds. Maybe cause the Z Film I watched was slowed down.

[@randyharris3175]

I believe Boone over Bowers .Bowers told the WC he heard 3 shots but he told Boone he heard no shots.

[@randyharris3175]

From what I'm hearing here roger Craig did not get close enough to that rifle to I'd 745 mauser on the barrel as he claims

[@aaronz7056]

Craig was a sad and disturbed man whose claims were all demonstrably phony.

[@randyharris3175]

Wonder why they ask him about roger Craig's claims

[@slyfoxxsr.941]

Roger Craig went on to have a great career as a San Francisco 49er running back.

[@scotth9857]

@@slyfoxxsr.941 And SF Giants' manager.

[@donbartels153]

Always intriguing seeing and listening to people who were there, up close and personal. Finding that rifle makes him a very important person. Especially that day. He did make two interesting remarks. He said the 2nd and 3rd shot were very close together. Pop, Pop. Impossible to get that bolt action rifle reloaded that fast. Also, regarding the Warren Commission, he said that they came up with the right decision, based on what information they were given. So true. LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover spoon fed that commission, so as to come up with their conclusion. I don't understand how these eye witnesses, can't come to terms with all the information, that has come out in the last several years. Obviously Oswald did not act alone!

[@curbozerboomer1773]

Both the FBI and the CIA did not tell the Commission all that they knew about Oswald--but mainly to cover their asses!...both agencies had dropped the ball somewhat, with Oswald...but Johnson and Hoover were not spoon-feeding the Commission.

[@peterfraser9070]

"Pop, Pop. Impossible to get that bolt action rifle reloaded that fast": Wait, that doesn't mean he meant literally that close together, exactly the same as he said it. Anyway, the Z Film indicates the time between the 2nd and 3rd shots; check the time for yourself.

[@ag4allgood]

Eugene Boone a straight shooter to me does try to embellish his observations that day. Just exactly what he remembers. I think the biggest take away I have is he knew Jack Ruby & thinks Jack shot Oswald spur of the moment to help his Burlesque club. That spur of the moment comment on Ruby rings truer as my research into people that knew Ruby said he loved JFK. It was his anger that led him to kill Oswald not a mob " hit conspiracy " as many claim. If you look at science & Ballistics the fatal head shot into JFK could not have been fired by Oswalds Carcano 6.65 mm rifle which had full metal jacket bullets. 1) According to the Autopsy report by Dr Humes along with 2 other forensic DRs the head shot entered from behind. 2) If that Full Metal Jacket Bullet had hit JFK it would have gone straight thru clean ! 3) The angle from the book suppository is way off ! The exit wound was just above JFK's right ear. There is no way the angle matches up. 4) The effect of that head shot Bullet during the autopsy X Rays taken showed 30 to 40 very small metal fragments. Like a hollow point bullet that explodes soon after impacting its target leaving a massive exit wound. 5) There are 20 witnesses from that day that smelled Gun Powder around the JFK Limo ! The wind that day was from the SW at 15 mph right in Oswald's face. How could anyone smell gun powder from over 200 feet UPWIND ? 6)The hole in the back of JFK's skull was about 6 mm in diameter there is no way a 6.5 mm FMJ Bullet could fit into that hole ! Conclusion is Oswald did not fire that fatal head shot. A Ballistic Engineer by the name of Howard Donahue drilled the holes of entry / exit into a plastic skull & put a dowel rod thru to determine the angle of the fatal head shot. It led back to the Secret Service follow up car rear left seat ! Just happens an agent had an AR 15 under the seat with 6 mm bullets. Not my conclusion but if you know what the Secret Service did at the Parkland Hospital & the Bethseda Naval Hospital following the shooting it all fits ! All done by Ballistics no conspiracies.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

You are wrong on your interpretation of the ballistics involved. Try reading Reclaiming History, it has an accurate summary of the ballistics....for example, that military jacked bullet that did come apart in JFKs head...it did so, because it hit one of the thickest bones in the human body...that skull, in the back of the head!....fragments recovered inside the brain, were from that type of bullet...Bullets do not always behave in a predictable way, as you likely know.

[@ag4allgood]

@@curbozerboomer1773 I really have to disagree on your " because it hit one of the thickest bones in the human body...that skull, in the back of the head! " The skull is NOT a thick bone material. A full metal jacket Bullet in 6.5 mm fired from that Carcano rifle will easily penetrate both sides of the skull ! EASY ! Testing was done in that JFK The Smoking Gun documentary. Clearly showed that a FMJ fired out of a Carcano rifle from distance will go straight thru ! Just as it was designed to perform. Ballistics or anatomy are not your area of knowledge ! Howard Donahue & a detective that used Howard's expert Ballistic analysis make for a dream when finding the evidence in this case. Truly unmatched in the details they uncovered. Your " Bullets do not always behave in a predictable way " is also not accurate considering the facts of this event ! I have several rifles & have many hours at the range / hunting BTW. When Howard Donahue talks about Ballistic evidence it absolutely makes sense to me.

[@randyharris3175]

Lee Bowers wanted to get in on the publicity

[@jerrymarbury9365]

The cop described the shots as bang.......bang.bang the last 2 shots he described ,listening to him ,as pretty close together.Using a bolt action rifle it would be very difficult to operate the action that quickly,as he described it.and almost impossible to take aim in between shots.he being a cop ,is a trained observer,and i would believe his account as being more accurate than some jo blow.So the way and timing of his account almost eliminates one shooter.in my humble opionion.I own bolt action deer rifles and it would take a crazy good shooter or a lucky sum bitch to pull those shots off.

[@bryana8451]

Boone also said he thought there was about 8 seconds total for all 3 shots. Obviously, his reenactment of the shot sequence was not to scale. He was simply conveying the point that the second and third shots were closer together. The Warren Commission was most likely wrong in their conclusion that the second shot missed altogether. The most credible explanation of the evidence, in my opinion, is that the first shot missed. For a compelling discussion of the shot sequence please see Max Holland's lecture--kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHnVqax9e5uNf9k

[@randyharris3175]

I seen a 70 year old man get off 3 shots in less than 7 seconds

[@randyharris3175]

Oswald was a damn good shot you fall prey to what you hear you must study the facts he practiced all the time with that gun he had already had practice at trying to kill a man Edwin Walker you could get a shot off in 2.4 seconds thats pretty quick

[@aethanfriday3568]

@@randyharris3175 forgive my niätivity, this is a genuine question. The rifle was broken down to bring it in according to the wc? And if so, how does a person put it back together and have it accurate and the scope lined up? I have heard that FBI had to add something to gun to get it remotely accurate...so I'm wondering how the official story goes with that? Thanks for your time

[@randyharris3175]

@@aethanfriday3568 well all I can say is we know he was very good with the gun .be was in the marines the first thing they teach you is breaking your weapon down and putting it back together quickly Marina said he was always doing dry runs practicing with the bolts action I believe he was very good with this gun .now some people said he got lucky with the shots some people say he did not even use the scope used the iron sites well if he was aiming for the head he only hit one out of three also you might the rifle might have not been that accurate. I read in Bugloshi book there a decline there on elm of 3.9 degrees which would have helped in the rifle tended to fire s little high .I hope I have answered your questions I do not pretend to be an expert on the Kennedy case I do like to convey that to the really far out conspiracy enthusiasts . Have a good day.

[@robpage7125]

Even today, Boone knows he'd BETTER "clam-up", or face the SAME fate Craig did..!! Those who continue to hide the TRUTH are serious about disposing of ANYONE (or their family members), if they tell the REAL story ! Boon's nervous twitching and contradictory "canned" responses, make it CLEAR that he's frightened "out of his wits !" 😅 Oh well.."accidents DO happen !"

[@jetcat132]

How convenient a tool that is to throw around…. “He was threatened”. Nonsense. Every time someone says something that doesn’t fit the conspiracy mindset, they must have been threatened. What a load of crap.

[@geoffreyjohnstone5465]

These interviews, whilst important, are so sanitized and without deep, awkward questions. William Buckley jr would have been much better at this type of thing. Hell, why not use James di Eugenio or any other critic of the official findings and finally get a "cross examination" of these witnesses? Thats the whole problem with the investigations, none of the witnesses were ever made to feel uncomfortable when testifying, unless they said something that went against the lone nut thesis and I find the majority of these as just pandering to the Warren Commission findings. I do acknowledge they have a place but I wish they were more hard hitting, critical and even controversial. The sterile nature of them almost makes it seem like it was a picnic that day back in November 63

[@stddisclaimer8020]

@Geoffrey Johnstone: Even if you used Mike or Chris Wallace, Tony Spilotro or even Torquemada (as the interviewer) you'd still not be able to get your coveted conspiracy.

[@geoffreyjohnstone5465]

@@stddisclaimer8020 I dont covet a conspiracy, just the truth. US officialdom has a nasty habit of lying for numerous reasons. The CIA were in bed with the Mafia to bring down the governments and rulers of foreign countries but you found out about much later. The FBI denied the existence of the Mafia and Organised Crime throughout Hoovers nigh on 50 years in power but it existed. Gulf of Tonkin? Pentagon Papers? The fact they still withhold documents more than 50 years after the event suggests it was more than just some lone nut with no ties to anything. By the way, have they found them WMDs in Iraq yet?

[@stddisclaimer8020]

@@geoffreyjohnstone5465 It's evident you'd prefer a conspiracy rather than the truth. Here we go again, with that well-worn non-sequitur of the CIA or the FBI (or the mafia) being known to have done this, therefore they also must have done that. Suspicion without proof (57+ years of it) is not worth a tinker's damn.

[@geoffreyjohnstone5465]

@@stddisclaimer8020 First of all, it doesnt bother me who did it, just that it happened and that I dont think we have been told the full truth....then again Earl Warren said something about that not happening in some peoples life time. I am not saying the FBI, CIA, Mafia or anyone else did this but merely showing how certain agencies and the US Government have lied in the past and have been caught out in that lie. Unless you can find anywhere that I have stated that I think it was a conspiracy (good luck on that) then "suspicion without proof is not worth a tinker's dream." Whilst I have reasonable doubt it was just Lee Harvey Oswald on his own, I would neither be disappointed nor totally shocked, I would be surprised if that was the truth. But had I been a juror at his trial, knowing what I know, I would not be able to say he was guilty of the crime totally alone. Still, any trial Oswald might have had in the last 57 years would have been a mistrial due to the prosecution withholding evidence. Now why would they still be doing that?

[@iluatldm]

What's the matter Geoffrey, first hand witness accounts don't support your conspiracy theory?

[@bobdrinski4210]

Different persons keep giving different accounts as to what they heard& saw in Dealey Plaza.Who's credible&who isn't?

[@randyharris3175]

Thsts why we go by other factors like facts.

[@randyharris3175]

Vtps I think not

[@randyharris3175]

Debunking a lot of myths like the stand down.

[@davidmoss4280]

Boy do conspiracy buffs like the Mauser story, get over it people, at first glance they thought it was a Mauser and soon corrected themselves, no there wasn’t 2 rifles in there, just Oswalds Mannlicher Carcano, such drama people move on.

[@lennon1252]

And you can be so positive about your statement because obviously you were there to see the Carcano. 😂😂😂😂

[@davidmoss4280]

@@lennon1252 you don’t have be there, look at the evidence, was there Mauser anywhere to be seen, absolutely not, move on.🤷🏻‍♂️

[@lennon1252]

@@davidmoss4280 The 'Evidence' shows that the rifle found was indeed a 7.65 Mauser. 4 policemen identified it as such. And Seymour Weitzman, a gun expert, wrote down in his report it was a 7.65 Mauser. It was reported in the newspapers and all over tv news stations Friday and Saturday. When they decided to frame Oswald the rifle suddenly became a Carcano. Weitzman had to destroy his initial report and write a new one. Everyone that saw the Mauser changed their stories too. All except one true honest cop. Roger Dean Craig. Army veteran, and policeman of the year. And what happened when he refused to change his story as to what he had seen with his own eyes? He was fired. Then 4 attempts were made on his life. The fifth one got him at home after he had testified to Jim Garrison. They said he killed himself with a rifle. He never owned a rifle in his life. His father was a WWII veteran. He was a Korean war veteran who joined when he was 15 by using his brother's birth certificate. His son, Roger Craig Jr. fought in Vietnam, and his grandson Clay Craig became a Staff Sargent in the war in Iraq after the September 11th attack and was killed in action. He was only 19.

[@lennon1252]

And I hate to tell you that YOU are in the minority. There is so much evidence out there now if you want to take the time to look into it that proves Oswald didn't do it and that it was a conspiracy. Did you know that Governor Connolly and his wife Nelly who were in the limo went to their graves saying that he was not hit by the same bullet that hit Kennedy. Did you know that Oswald was working for the FBI? Did you know that The Warren Commission did not conclude the single-bullet theory had been proven, as three members of the body, Representative Hale Boggs, Senators Richard Russell and John Cooper thought the theory improbable. Russell requested that his opposition to the theory be stated in a footnote in the report. Did you know that Gerald Ford admitted to moving Kennedy’s back wound from his right upper back to his neck to make the single bullet theory work? And the reason he gave for tampering with evidence and history? According to Ford, "For clarity purposes". You need to do your home work. And the CIA still will not release all their Kennedy assassination files even when asked to by Presidents Clinton, Obama, Trump and Biden. Hmmm

[@jetcat132]

What evidence? How about the crime scene photos and the Tom Aylea film on the sixth floor? What it that? It’s EVIDENCE that it was a 6.5 Carcano. It’s about time you guys grow up and Quit the fantasy.

[@Terry-te1ij]

There was a conspiracy.

[@peterfraser9070]

The irony is that there was literally a conspiracy between Mark Lane (Rush to Judgement) and certain "witnesses" to fabricate a JFK murder conspiracy.

[@donalgoan5083]

there was at least 4 shots that day. magic bullet, head shot, curb strike at triple over pass, windshield strike.

[@jimbo16720]

So you believe the Warren Commission but you don't believe the testimony from the people.....interesting....tells me a lot.

[@randyharris3175]

The teatimony is of the peoole were in the WC youre confused

[@randyharris3175]

Look jimbo when you got a witness saying something but you got 10 witnesses saying the exact opposite who do you believe that answers your question

[@randyharris3175]

@Jimmy Allen Jimmy i believe you have the wrong knowledge i read Alexander Zapruder book and Vincent Begulshi book i suggest you do the same listen to the facts not some phoney conspiracy video ive seen them all

[@shernitadee]

Well, they were derelict in their responsibilities to secure the area to ensure our great President's Life!!

[@rawbacon]

Secure the area? There were hundreds of buildings on the motorcade route, what an absurd comment.

[@shernitadee]

@@rawbacon at the very least they should have checked the area where the car would be going very slowly. An officer was supposed to be on the roof of the police station right there across Houston St. A bullet casing was found was found later on top of the Records Building, even closer to Elm St. The police or SS could not even check the area of the County Police station and the most coverted spot in all of Dallas! The Gateway to Dallas, where it's beginnings were.

[@captainzero5]

interesting tidbits, most questions and answers pre-arranged and baloney!

[@colerxxx]

absolutely friend. Baloney

[@randyharris3175]

His replys are not pre arranged

[@donbartels153]

Yup. Totally true. These interviews are pre arranged by the 6th floor museum. That's is plain to see.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

He has been answering these same questions for decades...so what?

[@apointofinterest8574]

Mauser anyone? Ooops, Boone admits his mistake. When will the pro-conspiracy crowd admit all of theirs?

[@apointofinterest8574]

@gumshoesoul Well, I'll toast to that, but certainly not with a glass of conspiratorial kool-aid. Make mine a truth n' tonic instead.

[@BHeisler59]

Ahh so it was Boone not Seymoure Weitzman that initially made the mistaken ID of the rifle Lt Day picked up and handed to Fritz who held it up and asked if anyone knew what kind of rifle it was. For one damn thing, this is Texas, you grow up with guns. If that phony Fritz and his beloved Lt had to ask knowing full well ALL gun manufacturers stamp into the steel the gun maker, the serial number. All he had to do was look unless he is distancing himself. Hell his LT who's specialty is to ID things is standing right there. Why leave that INITIAL ID'ing to an underling that aint even in your command? That rascal Roger Craig, ask yourself folks, is there anyone we can believe anymore? One things for sure, Peace Officer Roger Craig cannot be seen in his golden years looking healthy as a barn kept hog dressed cleaner than the clap doctor. I don't know about my fellow Texans. The Lt from ID and Fritz not knowing a rifle when its stamped in the steel, our MD trauma room #1 standing behind the presidents head 18 inches above it describing a 5 inch hole in the back of the cranium when he knew damn good and well it was to the right near the ear where the Cerebellum is located and fell out, lol. Who knew. You'd think with 12 years of public school, 4 years undergraduate, 3 to 4 years of medical school, internship and in residency, that MD would know anatomy. Maybe that's why I have coordination problems, my xray shows mine at the bottom of the brain in the back. Is there a procedure perhaps at Bethesda where the good doctors are, I could pay to have it put back where it belongs, atop my brain and above right ear? Back to Fritz, here let me go lower case on him, fritz. Picture a police officer, the dumbest police officer you know. A car is reported stolen, only thing the officer knows is its color, lets say blue. He spots a blue car parked next to a dumpster with boxes thrown about. While standing next to the vehicle he and 2 or 3 other officers with him, he has to ask one of them if anyone knows what kind of car it is? Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge etc is on the front, side and rear and its VIN as he well knows is bottom of front glass. So why ask someone else to ID your evidence at your scene?

[@randyharris3175]

Youre very ignorant to the facts if the case Boone did not touch the rifle he was the first to spot it the other guy was with him 8 think he also pointed it out as a mauser be later pointed our it was mistake goigle it its on you tube

[@randyharris3175]

Your implication is somebody killed Craig he committed suicide we know he lies about what was printed on the rifle we know he lied about seeing oswald get in the station wagon

[@randyharris3175]

And your point is what are you trying to say?

[@johnadams5489]

TexMex Boone mentioned that the TSBD was DARK, they had to use flashlights to see. The identification on a rifle barrel is TOO SMALL to read in a dark light. Cut the bullshit. You must get paid by the word. Your Post has more bullshit than a range full of Texas Longhorn Steers. STFU

[@randyharris3175]

@@johnadams5489 youre absolutely right Question do you remember Boone saying that Bowers did not even hear the shots? I think i remember him saying that

[@randyharris3175]

P hamilton what do you think the guy impersonating Oswald are the chicken

[@MrBarrynicholas]

Pile of crap, he didn't see a Mannlicher-Carcano he saw a Mauser like everyone else did that day.

[@kegeshook1734]

He saw a Carcano, like everyone else did that day.

[@MrBarrynicholas]

Kegeshook You are completely wrong. Do some proper research.

[@kegeshook1734]

@@MrBarrynicholas I've done the research. Boone himself explains the Mauser issue. There was no Mauser. The rifle that was found, photographed, filmed, examined, and presented as evidence was an Italian Carcano.

[@MrBarrynicholas]

Kegeshook No it wasn’t. The original rifle found was a Mauser which was fingerprinted and examined and identified in the TSBD. It still was a Mauser for the next 24 hours until they realised Oswald owned a Carcano. At this stage it magically changed to a Carcano.

[@kegeshook1734]

@@MrBarrynicholas Your ignorance on this is stellar. You really ought to educate yourself on the rifle before spouting off on it. Watch the video. Boone found the rifle. He says right in the video that the rifle was a Carcano.

[@randyharris3175]

Bauer's lied see

[@randyharris3175]

Bob Lackey is 100 percent correct

[@winnieblews]

Its crazy how many disinfo bots there are in the comment sections for this channel.