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- From: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Guns used in assassinations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.023112.17358@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 03:32:43 GMT
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- Organization: Western Washington University
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- C08926RC@WUVMD.Wustl.Edu (Rob) writes:
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- #Here's a rather morbid question: what were the makes and models
- #of guns used in various assassinations and attempts? For instance,
- #an Italian Carcano was used on JFK; what was used in the murders
- #of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bobby Kennedy, and the
- #attempts on Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan?
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- Lee Harvey Oswald: Colt "Cobra" or "Agent", aluminum
- framed .38 Spl with hammer shroud.
- Malcom X: some sort of 9mm para pistol.
- Bob Kennedy: An Iver Johnson 8 shot .22 LR revolver. Cadet or
- Young American was the name, I believe.
- MLK: Remmington slide action .30-06 of some type.*
- George Wallace: Charter Arms "undercover" .38 Spl.
- G. Ford: 1911 .45?? I am guessing on this one. Wasn't it
- one of Charlie's Angels, Sqeaky, that tried it?
- Ron Reagan: RG .22 LR revolver, CCI Stingers.
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- * BTW a show last night on Fox said that the FBI declined to do
- any tests on James Earl Ray's rifle to determine if has even
- been fired since the last time it was cleaned (it was found
- moments after the murder), or to see if its rifling matches
- that on the fully intact bullet they recovered from MLK.
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- According to the show, to this day they refuse to allow any
- tests of this sort to be done on the rifle. "The case is
- closed", I guess.
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- Jim Del Vecchio
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