Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

So, how do you want to play this? You want to say that Oswald's rifle was stored intact and that he disassembled it? It was a small house, there were a lot of other people in it, but you think he was out in that garage disassembling that rifle?

The Warren Commission assumed that he disassembled it in the garage between 8 and 9 PM. What? But, where did Marina and Ruth think he was? How do you disappear for an hour when you're a guest in someone's home? 

And at that hour, why would he assume that Ruth wasn't going to barge in on him? I guess that just as he automatically assumed that he'd have the 6th floor all to himself, he automatically assumed he'd have the garage all to himself- even though it was her garage. 

In fact, Ruth said she went out to the garage herself at 9 PM to paint some children's blocks, and she noticed the light was on, the implication being that he left it on. 

How incredible that fate just wove everything into place for him. He had access to the garage for a whole hour when he needed it without being disturbed. And never mind being disturbed; he was never even missed.

Where's Lee?
I dunno.
Well, he has to be somewhere. Do you think he went out to smoke?
He doesn't smoke. 
Do you think he went out to use his cell phone?
They haven't been invented yet.
Do you think he took a walk around the block?
What for?
Then where is he?
I don't know. He'll show up. Quit worrying. 
What's that noise in the garage? Do you think he's out there?
I don't know. Could be. You could check, but then, it might change the course of history. And you wouldn't want that. So, let's watch Leave it to Beaver instead. I hear Wally's wearing a v-neck t-shirt tonight. 

Now, do you wanna go with Ollie's idea that Oswald just removed the barrel? He said stock, but I think he meant barrel. 

Well, CBS News sure didn't think so. This is how they depicted the package that Oswald carried into the TSBD that morning.

Here's the rifle:

I don't see it looking like that bag Rather is holding, not if it was an intact rifle except for the barrel. Look: paper is paper. It's not a box. You put a rifle into a paper bag, and the bag is going to take the form of the rifle. And when you carry it, you're going to handle it like you normally handle a rifle. The paper is kind-of irrelevant. And it, the paper, is going to crush around the rifle as you handle it. There is no way it's going to look like this:

That is not a rifle with just the barrel removed. Even if Oswald had done it, you can't tell me that his putting the rifle in the bag came out like that. 

The Warren Commission said that Oswald disassembled the rifle, and they didn't qualify it. They didn't limit it. They didn't define it, but I think the implication was that he disassembled the whole thing. And get what they said the FBI said:

A firearms expert with the FBI assembled the rifle in 6 minutes using a 10-cent coin as a tool, and he could disassemble it more rapidly.

Anyone besides me question the truthfulness of that? I have a feeling that that is an outrageous, disgusting, bold-faced lie.