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- From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Guns used in assassinations
- Message-ID: <ATAYLOR.93Jan25093603@gauss.nmsu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:50:26 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: NMSU Computer Science
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- In-Reply-To: n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu's message of 24 Jan 93 03:32:43 GMT
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- <In article <1993Jan24.023112.17358@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
-
- <#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.
-
- Huh? Every account I've read indicated a shotgun
- was used here.
-
- < 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?
-
- Correct, Squeeky Fromm didn't bother to learn how
- to operate the Browning design, fortunately, so she
- pulled the trigger with the hammer down. One account
- claimed the chamber was empty, another claimed it
- was loaded. All agreed the M1911A1 wasn't cocked.
-
- < * 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.
-
- < 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.
-
- Huh. Seems a bit strange...
-