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Jul 17, 2020 · On Nov. 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald fired two 6.5-millimeter rounds from an Italian Carcano Fucile di Fanteria Mod. 91/38 rifle and killed U.S. president John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.
- The Gun of Infamy
- Origin of The Carcano
- The Carcano Rifle Goes to War
- The Rifle That Killed Kennedy
- Kennedy Assassination and The Carcano Rifle
- A Gun Collector Tried to Buy It
To date, four American presidents have been assassinated, and that includes Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley; while unsuccessful assassination attempts were made against Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt (when he left office and was campaigning for a failed White House bid in 1912), Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Gerald For...
The Carcano’s actual design dates back to 1887, decades before JFK was even born. It was that year that the Italian Government set up a committee chaired by General Gustavo Parravincino, who was interestingly an Italian Army artillery commander and oversaw the adoption of various large caliber weapons for his military. The goal of that committee wa...
The Italian Carcano had its baptism of fire in the First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-96)—which proved to be an unmitigated disaster for Rome. It was subsequently used in the 1901 Boxer Rebellion in China and then in the Italo-Turkish War (1911-12). In an almost ironic twist, more than a million Mannlicher-Carcano rifles were produced during the First...
Had Oswald not opted to make that $20 purchase, the Carcano rifle would likely be a footnote of military rifles today overshadowed by the Mauser, Lee-Enfield, and Mosin-Nagant. Instead, it became infamous through Oswald’s actions, when he fired the rifle from the Texas School Book Depository at approximately 13:30 pm CST. The particular rifle used ...
Another notable fact about the rifle is that Kennedy wasn’t actually Oswald’s first target. On April 10, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to assassinate retired U.S. Army General Edwin Walker at his home in Dallas. The bullet was deflected when it struck a window, but Oswald was able to make his escape. The firearm was then kept hidden, wrapped in...
The rifle, serial number “C2766,” remained in the possession of the FBI from November 1963 to November 1966, except for brief periods in 1964 when it was loaned to the Warren Commission and tested by the U.S. Army’s Weapons Evaluation Branch. During that time, Oswald’s widow, Marina, sold whatever right, interest, or title to the Carcano rifle—alon...
Nov 19, 2013 · For me, it has always been about the rifle. At first, the rifle convinced me that Lee Harvey Oswald couldn’t have killed President John F. Kennedy on the streets of Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Now ...
Aug 15, 2016 · Having reviewed the evidence that (1) Lee Harvey Oswald purchased the rifle used in the assassination, (2) Oswald's palmprint was on the rifle in a position which shows that he had handled it while it was disassembled, (3) fibers found on the rifle most probably came from the shirt Oswald was wearing on the day of the assassination, (4) a ...
Dec 18, 2017 · In March of 1963, a man named Lee Harvey Oswald purchased an M38 Carcano rifle and some quantity of ammunition from Klein’s Sporting Goods in Chicago. Oswald would later use this rifle and ammunition (or so the official narrative goes) to assassinate the then-President of the United States John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
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Aug 15, 2016 · Biography of Lee Harvey Oswald; The committee's approach. Handwriting analysis; The backyard photographs; The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald owned the rifle found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. Since the Commission further concluded that Oswald was the assassin of the President, his background is ...
While there are many theories disputing the official accounts of the event and debating ballistics, for the purposes of this article, I am focusing solely on the Carcano Model 1891/38 rifle housed in the National Archives collection and identified as “Mannlicher-Carcano Rifle Owned by Lee Harvey Oswald and Allegedly Used to Assassinate ...
