[lasereye]

Why? There was quite a few trees and a fence. Everyone was looking at the motorcade.

[AppyPappy]

Yes but the people across the street had the knoll on the horizon. Somewhere someone was looking in that direction.

[archy]

And between six and eight Special Agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, then called the Alcohol and Tobacco Tatx Unit {ATTU] who prevented anyone from following or chasing those behind the trees and fence when they were done [even to the extent of telling two witnesses, one a Dallas PD officer, not to come further, or they could be shot or killed] and then left via the ATSF railroad yard begind the school book warehouse. Interestingly, they were seen by the ATSF switch tower operatorm, a deaf mute.

Almost thirty years later, a sometime Texas gun dealer fearing a frameup by the BATF collected as much information on the activities of those agents that day, including their names and present status, particularly BATF Agent Frank Ellsworth, who claimed to have *helped find" the Carcano rifle in the schoolbook building, though not where the official rep. His name was David Koresh.

Former AFT agent Frank Ellsworth, who participated in a second search of the book depository conducted after 1:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, according to a Secret Service document, confirms that the Mannlicher-Carcano was found by a DPD detective on the fourth or fifth floor of the building, "not on the same floor as the cartridges." He adds: "I remember we talked about it, and figured that he must have run out from the stairwell and dropped it as he was running downstairs."