Did Oswald own a rifle? No, he didn't. He said he didn't, and he didn't. Of course, his accusers say that he lied. But, if you know, as I do, that he did not shoot Kennedy or Tippit, then you know that he had no reason to lie.
If you were accused of shooting someone, which you didn't do, but let's say you did own a rifle, and the police asked you if you owned one, you wouldn't lie. It's not hard to say, "Yes, I own a gun, but I didn't shoot anyone with it. If my gun was used to commit the crime, then someone else did it, apparently to frame me." That's what you would think, and that's what you would say. And the same goes for Oswald. So, when he said that he didn't own a rifle, he meant it.
And, it's easy enough to prove that he never ordered a rifle from Klein Sporting Goods. Here is the supposed money order. Notice that it doesn't say c/o Lee Harvey Oswald, who was the sole owner of the P.O. Box.
This is his application for the box. It doesn't say anything about anyone else being allowed to receive mail in the box.
Since a rifle couldn't fit in the box, they would have had to leave a notice about it. So, he goes to the counter.
Oswald: I'm here to pick up a parcel sent to my P.O. Box
Postal Clerk: Box number?
Oswald: 6225.
Postal Clerk: Name?
Oswald: Lee Harvey Oswald. But, I placed the order under a different name: A. Hidell. That's who the parcel was sent to.
Postal Clerk looks puzzled.
Postal Clerk: Why did you do that?
Oswald: Well, it's an alias of mine. I prefer to use it sometimes than my real name.
Postal Clerk: So, you have no legal status to use the name?
Oswald. Well, I did register with the Selective Service under that name. I can show you my card.
(Officialdom has it that Oswald forged such a card when he worked at the photo lab in Dallas.)
Oswald shows him the card.
Postal Clerk: How old are you?
Oswald: 24.
Postal Clerk: So, when you registered for the draft, you used a phony name?
Oswald: Uh, that's correct.
(Note that since Oswald was full-time military before his 18th birthday, he did not have to register with the Selective Service.)
Postal Clerk: What is in the parcel?
Oswald: A rifle.
Postal Clerk acts startled.
Postal Clerk: So, you ordered a rifle under a fictitious name?
Oswald: Yes, that is correct.
Postal Clerk: Please wait here. I need to get the Postmaster. Don't go away.
Now, think about the fact that police never informed Oswald that they tracked down his rifle order to Chicago. They could have told him about that on Saturday morning. So, why didn't they? They knew that he denied owning a rifle. So, why not checkmate him with the evidence that he did?
Well, remember that the evidence came from the FBI, not the Dallas Police. But, the FBI told the Dallas Police, and I'm sure Fritz would have posed it to Oswald IF THE FBI WANTED HIM TO. But apparently, Bookhout told Fritz not to broach Oswald with it. I could only guess what reason he gave him, but Fritz did what he was told.
Then there is all the other stuff the John Armstrong found, such as that Oswald supposedly mailed the money order by placing it in a mail box on a street in Dallas, yet it got delivered in Chicago the very next day, and the fact that the money order was never deposited or paid. We know that because the back of it didn't have any of the stamps that it would have had if it had gone through the banking system. Then, John found a deposit slip of Klein's that supposedly included Oswald's $21.45 money order; but, the deposit slip was dated February 15, 1963, a month before Oswald supposedly ordered his rifle from Klein's.
Are you getting it now that the whole story of Oswald having ordered the rifle from Klein's is a house of cards? It's ludicrous.
Now we know why Oswald denied owning a rifle. It's because he didn't own one, and he never ordered one.
But, where this story ends is with Marina. Even though on November 22, she denied that Oswald owned a rifle, stating that he used to, back in Russia, but it got sold, by February 1964, when she testified to the Warren Commission, she sang like a nightingale about Oswald and his rifle and his various exploits with it.
Are you starting to realize now how crucial her testimony was? That she truly was the star witness of the Warren Commission? How did they get her to say all that stuff? She was MK-ULTRA'd. The only evidence I can point to is her extreme weight loss, plus all the money they funneled to her, plus the use of sex to influence her.
It's interesting that the Warren Commission tried to get George DeMohreschildt to confirm the existence of Oswald's rifle. But, George held his ground that he never saw the rifle. The way the weird story went was that George and his wife Jeannie visited the Oswalds, and Oswald invited everyone to go into his room to gaze at the rifle. Everyone did except George, who preferred to stay in his seat on the couch- even though he was a gun guy who loved and collected firearms. Nope, he wasn't interested. That was his story and he stuck to it. And if you read his testimony, you really get the feeling that he was uncomfortable. I don't blame him. He knew there was no rifle.
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