The elderly negro was to have been framed with a Mauser

One of the advantages of the hypothesis sketched in this website is that it would help explain why the rifle found on the sixth floor of the TSBD, which was a 7.65mm Mauser, was promptly substituted by a 6.5mm Mannlicher Carcano. That the rifle discovered on the sixth floor was a 7.65mm Mauser is actually one of the few facts about the case that can be considered certain. It was identified as a Mauser immediately after it was found by a former sporting goods store owner Deputy Constable Seymour Weitzman, a man considered to have been more familiar than most with firearms. Weitzman signed an affidavit the next day stating that the rifle was a ‘7.65 Mauser bolt action equipped with a 4/18 scope, a thick leather brownish-black sling on it.’ Deputy Sheriff E.L. Boone, who was with Weitzman when the weapon was retrieved on the sixth floor, testified in two written reports that the gun was a Mauser, and other policeman present, Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig and Captain Will Fritz, sighted the weapon and concurred with Weitzman’s identification. This was an extremely precise identification that precludes error: 7.65mm Mausers are relatively rare. If the identification was based on a casual inspection of the gun – and it hard to believe that the weapon involved in the ‘murder of the century’ would not have been examined carefully – then the more common 7.5mm Mauser should have been identified.
It is important to realize that the gun was not identified as a Mauser by means of a mere glance: the information ‘7.65 Mauser’ was actually stamped on the barrel. If the rifle had been a Mannlicher Carcano, it would never have been misidentified as a Mauser, for the Mannlicher Carcano Oswald allegedly abandoned on the sixth floor had two stamps that would have permitted instant identification (‘Made in Italy’ and ‘Cal. 6.5’). A genuine mistake could have endured for an hour or two but not several days. Yet as late as November 25, a CIA report specifically identified the gun as a Mauser: ‘The rifle he [Oswald] used was a Mauser which OSWALD had ordered (this is now known by handwriting examination) from Klein’s Mail Order House, Chicago, Illinois.’ What’s more, Seymour Weitzman never renounced his initial identification of the weapon as a Mauser, and the fact that he refused to do so apparently left him in fear of retaliation for the rest of his life.
Since it was several days before the rifle ceased being identified as Mauser, it is clear that we are not talking about initial misidentification so much as a growing need once the assassination was pinned on Oswald to suppress the information that the gun had been a Mauser. Both the supporters of the Warren Commission and a number of conspiracy theorists (unaccountably) have concocted incredible theories to try to explain why a gun clearly identified with the markings ‘Made in Italy’ and ‘Cal. 6.5’ ever came to be misidentified as a 7.65mm Mauser. The general public is expected to believe that no one present on the sixth floor at the time the weapon was recovered, including experienced policemen, one of whom had himself sold rifles in his store, was capable of reading what was written on the gun barrel.
The most plausible explanation for the otherwise mysterious shift from a Mauser to a Mannlicher Carcano was that the Mauser had been planted on the sixth floor as part of a plot to implicate someone other than Oswald in the assassination. Since the man who fired from the southeast window of the sixth floor was a black man, the logical conclusion is that the Mauser had been intended to implicate a black man. It had surely even been furnished with a lineage connecting it to whoever the black man was that the assassination was intended to be blamed upon - perhaps Troy West or Eddie Piper. But once the federal government agencies that had nurtured the local assassination conspiracy decided on Oswald as the patsy, the need was to find a weapon that could plausibly be associated with him. As we know, the FBI, which was effectively charged with micromanaging the evidence to support the case against Oswald, never succeeded in creating a convincing link between Oswald and a gun that he had apparently never even ordered, let alone fired. Yet the FBI succeeded in perhaps its most important task: suppressing all information that could potentially disclose the real identity of the shooter. In the weeks after the assassination, the significant percentage of the American population who suspected that Kennedy had been killed by Southern racists found their anger rendered directionless by the wholly preposterous theory that he had been killed by a Texan Communist.

Earl Warren

The above hypothesis also solves the problems raised by Jack Ruby’s enigmatic Warren Commission testimony. In the following exchange, Ruby hinted to Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren that he (Warren) was to be the next victim of the conspiracy that killed Kennedy, but that he could not reveal the details while he was still in Dallas:

RUBY: Gentlemen, if you want to hear any further testimony, you will have to get me to Washington soon, because it has something to do with you, Chief Warren. Do I sound sober enough to tell you this?
WARREN: Yes; go right ahead.
RUBY: I want to tell the truth, and I can't tell it here. I can't tell it here. Does that make sense to you?

There is only one thing that links Earl Warren and President Kennedy, and that is the issue of civil rights. Earl Warren was, effectively, the man responsible for the Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education that, in 1954, declared segregation unconstitutional and led to the emergence of the modern civil rights movement. As such, Warren stood at the very pinnacle of the segregationists' hate list.
What’s more, the following exchange makes it all too clear what kind of organization was behind the conspiracy:

RUBY: There is an organization here, Chief Justice Warren, if it takes my life at this moment to say it, and Bill Decker said be a man and say it, there is a John Birch Society right now in activity, and Edwin Walker is one of the top men of this organization - take it for what it is worth, Chief Justice Warren. Unfortunately for me, for me giving the people the opportunity to get in power, because of the act I committed, has put a lot of people in jeopardy with their lives. Don't register with you, does it?
WARREN: No; I don't understand that.
RUBY: Would you rather I just delete what I said and just pretend that nothing is going on?

But Earl Warren did want to ‘pretend that nothing is going on’ - his brief, as head of the Warren Commission, was to prevent the public from learning the true facts of the case. As he told the press, 'You may never get to know the truth in your lifetime, and I mean that seriously.' And so Jack Ruby never went to Washington.

Concluding remarks

The task of this website was to determine on the basis of the extremely limited body of evidence available who fired shots at the motorcade from the Depository building. It is important to note that there is no evidence that gunshots were fired from any location in the TSBD. The likelihood is that what happened there was primarily a charade for the purpose of setting up a patsy. Although the possibility cannot be ruled out that one or two shots were fired from the Depository, they were certainly not shots that killed Kennedy. As is well known, the fatal headshot emanated from the grassy knoll. This website should not be misinterpreted, therefore, as an argument for the view that the shots that killed President Kennedy originated in the TSBD. They did not. The aim has been rather to shed insight on the process by which Oswald was finally designated the patsy.