Roy Truly and the Carcano

[Charles Blackmon]

I read on another JFK site that LHO told Captain Fritz that Roy Truly had the Carcano in the TSBD two days(!!) before 11/22/63.

Do any of the researchers here know if this alleged claim could be true? If it is, there should justifiably be a laser focus on Roy Truly's actions at the time of the assassination.

[Guest]

On 6/25/2006 at 10:28 PM, Michael Hogan said:

 

Roy Truly's later testimony to the Warren Commission (7H 381-382):

Mr. Ball: Your testimony is filed in volume 28, I believe, of the Commission here. There are certain matters which have come to the attention of the Commission since then that I would like to inquire about, and that's the reason we are taking your deposition, which will be in addition to the testimony you have already given.

Do you recall anytime that you saw any guns in the Texas School Book Depository Building?

Mr. Truly: Yes; I did.

Mr. Ball: Prior to November 22, 1963?

Mr. Truly: Yes; I saw two guns on November 20.

Mr. Ball: Whose guns were they?

Mr. Truly: They belonged to Mr. Warren Caster.

Mr. Ball: Now, before inquiring into the circumstances of seeing two guns that belonged to Mr. Warren Caster on November 20, 1963, I'll ask you whether or not you ever at anytime before that time or after that time saw guns in the Texas School Book Depository Building?

Mr. Truly: Never before.

And:

Mr. Ball: Before the assassination, was there any other occasion besides the one we are inquiring about, when you saw guns in the Texas School Book Depository Building?

Mr. Truly: Never.

Mr. Ball: On November 20, 1963, you saw two guns owned by Mr. Warren Caster, can you tell me where and when and the circumstances under which you saw these guns?

Mr. Truly: It was during the lunch period or right at the end of the lunch period on November 20. Mr. Caster came in the door from the first floor and spoke to me and showed me two rifles that he had just purchased. I looked at these and picked up the larger one of the two and examined it and handed it back to Mr. Caster, with the remark that it was really a handsome rifle or words to that effect, at which time Mr. Caster explained to me that he had bought himself a rifle to go deer hunting with, and he hadn't had one and he had been intending to buy one for a long time, and that he had also bought a .22 rifle for his boy.

Mr. Ball: Did you handle the .22 rifle?

Mr. Truly: Not that I recall.

Mr. Ball: You did see it, though?

Mr. Truly: I did see it.

Truly's testimony can be read here: http://www.jfk-assassination.de/warren/wch/vol7/page381.php

Edited September 22, 2022 by Jean Paul Ceulemans

[Paul Cummings]

Often felt this is a non story. A Texan having guns and showing them to people at work doesn't sound that out of ordinary to me.

[Denis Morissette]

15 hours ago, Charles Blackmon said:

I read on another JFK site that LHO told Captain Fritz that Roy Truly had the Carcano in the TSBD two days(!!) before 11/22/63.

Do any of the researchers here know if this alleged claim could be true? If it is, there should justifiably be a laser focus on Roy Truly's actions at the time of the assassination.

https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php?topic=2824.0

[Benjamin Cole]

The topic of Caster does bring up an interesting point: There were several publisher's offices on the fourth (possibly fifth) floor of the TSBD, which, as near as I can determine, were never searched on 11/22. My understanding is these were rented offices, of businesses related to, but not part of, the TSBD. 

It does not take too much imagination that someone could have fired shots out of the sixth floor, then ran down to a fourth floor office. Or even dropped off a weapon there, and then left. 

BTW, even Caster complained that the FBI investigation of him was scant.