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The Dallas Police Department examination indicated Lee Harvey Oswald, whom the Warren Commission alleges fired a $26 WWII-vintage Italian carbine, had no powder burns on his chest, arms, or hands.
Roger Stone on Twitter X ^ | March 18, 2025 | Roger Stone

Posted on 03/18/2025 7:27:09 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

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To: cgbg

“To all those on FR who accused many of us of being crazy conspiracy theorists on this topic—I accept your apology.”

To those of you that have to believe you get powder burns when shooting a rifle i. Order to push your agenda I know you will never apologize.


41 posted on 03/18/2025 7:50:40 PM PDT by TexasGator (X1.1111'1'./iI11 .I1.11.'1I1.I'')
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To: tumblindice

I want to hear the conflicts in the original notes made by the parkland doctors and then how that of a murdered Presidential body was tampered with!


42 posted on 03/18/2025 7:50:44 PM PDT by princess leah ( )
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Remember the Dallas police and news media first said the rifle they found was a 7.65 German Mauser. There’s a later 1980s interview of the cop, Roger Craig, who held it saying it wasn’t a Carcano that showed up.


43 posted on 03/18/2025 7:51:47 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical object)
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To: Williams

My question as well. It’s not the shooters who get the burns — it’s the shootees.


44 posted on 03/18/2025 7:51:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Something tells me that the biggest thing coming out of this release will be mostly just a reenergizing of the JFK book and conspiracy industry.


45 posted on 03/18/2025 7:52:46 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Spktyr
Uh... unless you had an uncontained case failure or chamber rupture or similar, you’re not going to get powder burns from firing a rifle.

A Paraffin test is routine police work for suspects involved in shootings. It does not test for powder burns, but rather trace amounts of nitrates (specifically barium and antimony) which are emitted from a weapon upon firing.

46 posted on 03/18/2025 7:52:51 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: TexasGator

See post 40.


47 posted on 03/18/2025 7:53:15 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Or JD Tippit?


48 posted on 03/18/2025 7:53:40 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

That means it was one magic loogie.

49 posted on 03/18/2025 7:54:26 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: cgbg

Same deal. You only get powder burns when shooting a pistol if you put your hand in front of the muzzle, block the compensator ports, block the muzzle brake or the thing explodes.

If people got powder burns every time they fired a post 1890 pistol, ranges would be empty. How do you not know this?

Even if you assume Stone meant ‘gunshot residue’ - the tests of the day would only detect a then-modern pistol’s residue in concentrations that would appear on the hands and forearms of the shooter, and then only if he hadn’t sweated much or washed his hands. It is only in the last *40* years that GSR tests get sensitive enough to detect it for days even if you’ve washed your hands... The Kennedy assassination was more than 60 years ago. You do the math.

Again, the lack of powder burns or detectable gunshot residue means zilch.


50 posted on 03/18/2025 7:59:21 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

You haven’t lived until you’ve had a primer fail


51 posted on 03/18/2025 7:59:39 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Hmm. Never heard that story or read that in any of the JFK assassination books I read after the fact. Oswald tried to shoot the theater manager when he was confronted inside, but his gun malfunctioned. So he did have a gun on him.


52 posted on 03/18/2025 8:00:47 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: princess leah

The doctors/coroners botched the autopsy, showing the throat wound as an entry wound. That mistake got a lot of people excited.
They casketed the body without the brain. The feds were demanding they release the body, though Texas officials considered it a homicide case and weren’t happy.
Kennedy himself called Dallas “nut country”. This murder resulted in the 1967 presidential succession amendment to the Constitution.


53 posted on 03/18/2025 8:01:15 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

I am familiar with the test. I am also familiar with the fact that the 1960s version of the test didn’t work for crap if the subject had sweated, washed their hands, etc. Dallas on a warm November day... couldn’t possibly be sweating at all, right? And there wasn’t some time in the hours between shooting Tippett and getting caught in the theater where he could have washed his hands, right?


54 posted on 03/18/2025 8:03:38 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: gundog

.32 acp Magtech in a Beretta Tomcat mousegun.
Turned my head and flipped that dud out after 20 seconds heh


55 posted on 03/18/2025 8:04:31 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Fiji Hill
"Why would he get powder burns on his chest, arms or hands unless he was shot at close range?"

I think they mean powder residue from using the carbine at the Schoolbook Depository, and the pistol on Tippett.

56 posted on 03/18/2025 8:05:02 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Responsibility2nd

There have been 60 plus years of drama queening. It’s endless. There are far more interesting questions about Crooks and his attempt these days anyway.


57 posted on 03/18/2025 8:08:26 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Powder ‘burns’? Did someone mean residue? Did the tech exist in ‘63 to swab for powder residue?


58 posted on 03/18/2025 8:09:54 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: tumblindice

Had a couple of primers burst in a .270 bolt gun. Burning powder makes it back around the bolt, and through the vent(s) at the bolt/chamber interface.


59 posted on 03/18/2025 8:10:32 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: xp38

This. There’s definitely things here.
How did a kid working in an assisted living facility have those bank accounts and money?


60 posted on 03/18/2025 8:11:05 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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