Sunday, October 20, 2013

True America: Witness to a Hit

This brief video of an interview with Officer Roger Craig of the Dallas Police Department is startling. The former officer directly contradicts the established story that "the lone gunman" used a mail-order Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to assassinate JFK. Contemporaneous film footage corroborates what Craig describes occurred on the six floor of the Texas School Book Depository building immediately after the assassination. The rifle found by a deputy sheriff in the presence of Craig was a 7.65mm Mauser with the name and caliber stamped into its barrel. The three empty cartridges found in a row by the southeast six floor window ("the sniper's nest") belonged to a 6.5mm rifle.  News reports repeated this same rifle identification dispensed by Dallas Police. But you will see Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America" correct himself and previous news reports to change the positive identification to a 6.5mm Mannlicher-Carcano (Model 1938 carbine) mispronounced by Cronkite and the same type owned by Lee Harvey Oswald. Within two days of the assassination, the cover-up had begun. Craig died in 1975 of a gunshot to the chest that a coroner ruled suicide. [The rolling credits are the original poster's, not PNG's]