I know it is jolting to hear that Oswald didn’t own a rifle. But, he didn’t, and the evidence for it is strong and layered. I’m going to give you the list, and if you are an Oswald defender, it is very important that you get onboard with this.

First, Oswald said he didn’t. And if he did, and someone used his gun to shoot JFK, he would have put it that way to the police. “Yes, I own a rifle, but I didn’t shoot anyone with it. Someone else must have taken it and done it just to frame me.”  He wasn’t going to lie to the police.

Second, Marina, when first asked by Dallas Police if Oswald owned a rifle, she said that he used to but it got sold. If he currently owned one, she wouldn’t have said that. She would have referred to the rifle that he owned. But, since he didn’t own one, she wanted to give them something that pertained to a rifle.

Third, everything about the purchase of the rifle, and its odyssey afterwards, is riddled with incongruities. He supposedly played hooky from work to go to the Post Office to get the money order, but John Armstrong found his work ledger from Jaggars/Chiles/Stovall that day, and he completed 9 printing jobs during the time he was supposed to be away. The whole issue of a rifle for A. Hidell going to the P.O. Box of Lee Harvey Oswald has never been explained or resolved. Try to imagine it. He goes to the counter and says, “I’m here to get my rifle. I’m A. Hidell.”  Postal clerk: “Well, this box belongs to Lee Harvey Oswald, and you’re not listed.”  Oswald: “Well, that’s me too; it’s my other name.” And then what? He pulls out his military ID for LHO and his draft card for Alek Hidell? You think that would have resulted in them handing the rifle over to him?

I don’t believe Oswald had a P.O. Box. He never said he did. They cost money, and he was as poor as a church mouse. And he didn’t one. What for? Postal Inspector Harry Hines said that the only things that went to the P.O. Box were Russian and Socialist newspapers. Bull shit. Oswald didn’t spend money on that. And if he read Russian and Socialist newspapers, why weren’t any found in his boarding room? But, the kicker is that when he wrote his fail-safe letter to Marina, before he, supposedly, went out to shoot Walker, he told her, in Russian, that if the worst happens, she should do these 10 things right away. And first on the list was go to the P.O. Box. Why would that have been on the list at all, let alone be the first thing? The truth is that he never wrote that letter, and he never went out to shoot Walker. The plotters wrote the letter, and they put the P.O. Box first on the list to substantiate him having a P.O. Box.

The stuff that John Armstrong found about the claimed mail-order of the rifle is so wild, it’s comical. For instance, after sneaking away from work to go the post office, Oswald, for some reason, walked to a distant letter box to mail the letter. Then, the letter reached Kleine’s Sporting Goods in Chicago the very next day, even though at the time, the Post Office had no overnight delivery at any price. Read John Armstrong because it is one of the most brilliant pieces of research ever done. 

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Then, as I have told you, neither Ruth nor Marina claimed that Oswald took a rifle with him to New Orleans. Then, the rifle that never went to New Orleans could not have come back because the story that Oswald snuck it into Ruth Paine’s station wagon, just hoping that it would wind up in her garage and stay there is no credible because no one would do that. And when I say no one, I mean not one of the 8.3 billion people on Earth would do it. Nobody would do that. Oswald had friends in New Orleans. If he owned a rifle, he could have left it with one of them. And that’s what he would have done if he had owned one, which he didn’t. Ruth Paine was going to be housing and feeding his pregnant wife and his daughter. And some mother that Ruth was. She put her own two young kids in her car to sit through that long drive from Dallas to New Orleans. Then, as soon as they got there, they had to pack up the car with Marina’s stuff and drive back. What a cruel thing to do to her kids. Some people think Ruth had a sex thing for Marina, and maybe they’re right.

But, Marina must have appreciated what Ruth was doing for her. So, if Oswald said, “Let’s sneak my rifle into her car and then you sneak it in to her garage” Marina would have said Yebat tebya.  Look it up.

And what about the Michael Paine, who was the most accommodating ex-husband in the history of marriage. He let Ruth drag his kids to New Orleans and back, and return with two more mouths to feed. Can you name a single other estranged husband who let his estranged wife do that? And then the tales he told about the many times he moved the stuffed blanket around in the garage; always wondering what it was but never peeking. Was it tent poles? Other camping equipment?  A military shovel?  Who knows? His job was to pay the bills and keep everyone fed. He even did the shopping.

Supposedly, Oswald did use the rifle when he was in Dallas. He repeatedly went to the shooting range to practice, and he sometimes shot diagonally at other people’s targets, just to be an asshole. But even among lone-nutters, there is a growing community of them who admit that that whole story is a lie. Davie Reitz, whom I have communicated with, is one of them. He has admitted that it’s a lie. After all, Oswald had no car. So, how did he get to Irving for that if the rifle was stored there? How did he get the rifle out of the garage? How did he get to the range? (This was before Uber.) How did he get back to the Paine house to sneak the rifle back in the garage? And then how did he get back to Oak Cliff? And remember: Oswald, at that time, had no friends. No friends, no friends, no friends, no friends, no friends, no friends, no friends.

And Oswald did NOT own a rifle. He said he didn’t, and he didn’t. Every Oswald defender needs to know that and proclaim it.

 I shall continue with what happened to Oswald on 11/22, but first, I want to clear things up about the claim of finding a fiber from the Oswald's blanket on the homemade bag. It is a moot question, a nonsense question, because Oswald owned no rifle. Therefore, there was no rifle to wrap in any blanket. And Oswald said he owned no rifle. And to everyone who believes in Oswald's innocence, you have to believe what he said because, being innocent, he had no reason to lie- about anything.

It is in the record that, when first asked by Dallas Police if Oswald owned a rifle, Marina said that he used to, but it got sold. She was referring to the shotgun he owned in Russia to go rabbit-hunting. Obviously, she wouldn't have brought that up if he currently owned a rifle. So, she was tacitly saying the same thing that Oswald said, that he did not own a rifle in November 1963. And therefore, everything about the riffle story, including the blanket, the homemade bag, and everything else, has to be bogus.

The blanket story is preposterous even if Oswald had owned a rifle because not Oswald, and not anyone else, would sneak his rifle into the station wagon of a pacifist/gun-hater and just hope that it wound up in her garage. Oswald had friends in New Oreleans, and I am referring to Guy Bannister and his groupies. Oswald could have left the rifle with one of them- if he had one, which he didn't.

The whole story is a crock of lies and the blanket fiber fabrication is just one its many elements. Oswald had nothing to do with any rifle, with any paper, or with any blanket. It's all just a pack of lies concocted by Kennedy's real killers.

 You realize, there is no evidence that Oswald made a bag. Nobody at the TSBD saw him seizing or handling paper. Neither Frazier, nor Marina, nor Ruth saw him with any paper on Thursday night. And on Friday morning, Frazier claimed that Oswald had a grocery bag that was 2 feet long. He meant a literal grocery bag- not brown paper taped together. If you or I or anyone else had brown paper and wettable tape, no one is is going to take what we make from it for a grocery bag. The point is that no witnesses, not even Frazier, corroborated the brown paper story. Frazier did not say that the bag looked homemade, and he never said that Oswald was in possession of brown paper. So, it's just the government, in its fiat authority, claiming that Oswald built a bag from brown paper.

Frazier had to park at the distant parking lot that was several blocks away. He claimed to stay in the car for a while to run the engine to recharge the battery. So, Oswald got to and entered the building long before Frazier did. And he was seen right away by Jack Doughterty, who testified that Oswald had no long bag. Joseph Ball tried to hammer Dougherty about it, but he couldn't break him. Dougherty held firm. He was respectful, but he wouldn't budge.

But, I want to point out that paper bags fail sometimes. Even when they contain just groceries, they sometimes fail. But, jagged rifle parts? So they didn't tear the homemade bag? And when Oswald was ready to access the rifle parts, he didn't just tear the paper? Why wouldn't he? It was the most practical thing to do.

Oswald asked James Jarman about the crowd building up outside, and Jarman told him that the President was going to pass the building. So, Oswald didn't know, and that means two things: it means he could not have intended to shoot Kennedy, and it means that the people who were going to shoot Kennedy did not tell him anything about it. Oswald was completely in the dark.

When lunch time came, Oswald went to the 1st floor lunch room where he stored his lunch, and he ate there. Three of his questioners wrote that down, that he said he ate his lunch in the 1st floor lunch room, commonly known as the domino room. Those three questioners were Fritz, Bookhout, and Hosty. That is where he ate his lunch, and there is no reason to doubt it. He did not eat his lunch in the 2nd floor lunch room. He never did that. That was where the office workers ate. Oswald was a warehouse worker, and the domino room is where they ate. There was also a newspaper there, which he liked to browse through as he ate.

Oswald said that Jarman and Norman were around when he was there eating, which Jarman confirmed. He said that he had bought a sandwich from a concession truck out front, and he put the sandwich on the counter in the domino room.

And then after eating his cheese sandwiches and apple, Oswald went outside to watch the motorcade. Two interrogators wrote it down: Fritz and Hosty, and we have a handwritten note by each of them. Here is Hosty's note. The note states plainly that Oswald said that after eating his lunch in the 1st floor lunch room that he went outside to watch the Presidential Parade.

And it's him in the Altgens doorway. Don't anybody spew that Lovelady shit here because I won't stand for it; I will ban you. The U.S. government killed Kennedy, and then they concocted the Lovelady story. That is the truth, and we are not debating it because it's past debating.

 Let’s look at the Thursday and Friday in Oswald’s life. On Thursday, he rode with Frazier to Irving, and supposedly, he had a wad of brown wrapping paper with him. Frazier never claimed to see it, nor did Marina and Ruth. Did Oswald hide it? How and where? Did he stuff it in his pants? I don’t’ think so. And Troy West, the mailer, never saw Oswald milling around his mailing station. There is no evidence whatsoever that Oswald took any paper from the TSBD.

That’s a problem, but claiming that he made a bag? That’s just plain stupid. I am 75 years, and I have never in my life made a bag. I’ve never had the slightest notion to make a bag. I’ve never met anyone who told me they made bag. Making bags is not something that people do, nor do they know how. What they do is wrap things in paper, and that they do often. Surely, Oswald, had he sought to contain rifle parts in paper, would have stretched out the paper, but the rifle parts on it, and then wrapped it all together. Saying that “Oswald made a bag” is just another way of saying the U.S. government killed Kennedy.

I’ve been debating this with Chat GPT, and what it tries to do is back off the “make a bag” claim as much as possible, saying that he just folded the paper in half once, put the rifle parts within and started taping. It does not refrain from denying the obvious, such as that Detective Montgomery’s bag was a manufactured one and not just paper and tape. Then, it’s preposterous that rifle parts didn’t tear the paper, and it’s equally preposterous that Oswald didn’t tear the paper deliberately to access the parts when he was ready.  Everything about the bag story is goofy.

So, why did Oswald go to Irving? That’s the wrong question. The right question is: How did he come to have $68? He hadn’t worked since July, and he was poor and struggling even when he was working. He started at the TSBD on October 16 after being unemployed for 3 months. He made $1.11/ hour, and he had to pay his living expenses and give money to Marina. So, where did he get that $68? It is mathematically impossible that he saved it up from working. He didn’t steal it, so somebody must have given it to him.  That money was central to him going to Irving. He showed it to Marina and told her that he wanted to get an apartment for the four of them. She told him she wasn’t ready. She didn’t say that she never would or that she wanted a divorce. She just said she wasn’t ready. Then, they spent the night together.

Supposedly, Oswald got up in the middle of the night to go to the garage to look for the rifle. I repeat that you can’t get the rifle to that house from New Orleans, and you can’t get the rifle from Dallas to New Orleans in the first place. But, in addition to that, you have to recognize how much noise registers at night. Floors squeak; faucets squeal; doors rattle. And we’re talking about a project, starting with finding the rifle, making the bag, and getting it all ready.

But, let’s look further at Oswald imploring Marina to move back in with him in an apartment he would get for them. Marina attested to it, and there’s no reason to doubt her. But, how do you reconcile it with him intending to kill Kennedy? In other words, how can you have both on the table? It seems like it would have to be one or the other. How could he expect to kill Kennedy and establish a new domicile for his family? He couldn’t. Oswald’s appeal to his wife, and reported by her, defies that he had any thought of killing Kennedy. And of course, he surely had no thought of shooting Kennedy because he didn’t own a rifle. He had nothing with which to shoot him.

Frazier said that he and Oswald never discussed Kennedy’s visit to Dallas. But, Oswald and Marina discussed it. She said that she told him that she wished very much that she could see the President and First Lady. You’d think that at that moment, he would have piped in the President would be passing his building. But, he didn’t, and that’s because he didn’t know. The next morning at work, when he saw people congregating on the sidewalk, he did not know why they were doing it. So, he asked James Jarman, and Jarman told him about the motorcade passing by. And that’s when Oswald found out about it. It is yet another reason why there is no way Oswald ever had any thought of shooting Kennedy. That testimony of Jarman’s is one of the most powerful in the Warren Commission, and it exonerates Oswald. Of course, the Warren Commission ignored it. To be continued.  

 What about the story that Ruth and Marina went into the garage with the Police and saw the empty blanket on the floor? It is complete bull shit. It could not possibly have happened. For one thing: there was no rifle, and therefore, there no rifle was ever wrapped in a blanket.

I explained that Ruth and Marina drove Oswald to the bus station when he moved to New Orleans, and neither said anything about him taking a rifle with him. The WC interrogator tried to get Ruth Paine to admit to a long, pole-like object that was 40 inches long, but she refused to do it. She was quite adamant. And the same goes for what was transported back to Irving from New Orleans.

Mr. JENNER - Was there a rifle packed in the back of the car?

Mrs. PAINE - No.

Mr. JENNER - You didn't see any kind of weapon?
Mrs. PAINE - No.
Mr. JENNER - Firearm, rifle, pistol, or otherwise?
Mrs. PAINE - No; I saw nothing of that nature.
Mr. JENNER - Did you drive them to your home?
Mrs. PAINE - Yes.

So, you don't have a rifle going to New Orleans, and you don't have one coming back from New Orleans. Therefore, there was no rifle in Ruth Paine's garage.

And, the very idea that Oswald would sneak his rifle into Ruth Paine's car and hope that it wound up in her garage is ridiculous. It is preposterous. Nobody would do that. He had friends in New Orleans, the Guy Bannister groupies. He could have left the rifle with one of them- or with Guy Bannister himself. Nobody would do what Oswald supposedly did.

It is widely acknowledged that when first asked if Oswald owned a rifle, Marina said that he used to, but it got sold. She was referring to the shotgun he owned in Russia. Months later, when testifying to the WC, she waxed on and on about him owning a rifle, but that was after she was MK-ULTRA'd by the feds. She was brainwashed, and I can just imagine how they went about doing it, telling her that she was traumatized, and that her mind was playinf tricks on her, suppressing her memory of what happened, but they were going to help her get her memories back. And lo and behold, she eventually remembered him getting a rifle, going to Mexico City, trying to shoot General Walker, etc, and all those things being completely bogus.

Before anything was done to her, when she was first asked, she said that Oswald currently owned no rifle. Period. End of sentence. And that settles it. You can't reconcile that with what followed, the wild stories she told. Those stories were planted in her by the FBI. Her brainwashing involved drugs, sex, you do realize she got emaciated during her "protective custody." Look at the collage.

Here is their attempt to pressure Ruth Paine about the rifle coming back with her from New Orleans.

Mr. JENNER - Now, was there a separate long package of any kind?
Mrs. PAINE - I do not recall such a package.
Mr. JENNER - Was there a separate package of any character wrapped in a blanket?
Mrs. PAINE - No. There was a basket such as you use for hanging your clothes. It carried exactly that, clothes and diapers, and they weren't as neat as being in suitcases and duffels would imply. There was leftovers stuffed in the corner, clothes and things, but rather open.
Mr. JENNER - So you saw no long rectangular package of any kind or character loaded in or placed in your station wagon?
Mrs. PAINE - No, it doesn't mean it wasn't there, but I saw nothing of that nature.
Mr. JENNER - You saw nothing?
Mrs. PAINE - I saw nothing.
Mr. JENNER - When you arrived in Irving, Tex., were you present when your station wagon was unpacked?
Mrs. PAINE - Marina and I did that with the exception of the duffels.
Mr. JENNER - You did it all yourself and you took out of the station wagon everything in it other than the two duffel bags?
Mrs. PAINE - Yes.
Mr. JENNER - Now, in the process of removing everything other than the two duffel bags-on the occasion on the 24th of September 1963 when you reached Irving, Tex., did you find or see any long rectangular package?
Mrs. PAINE - I recall no such package.
Mr. JENNER - Did you see any kind of a package wrapped in the blanket?
Mrs. PAINE - Not to my recollection.
Mr. JENNER - Did you see any package
Mrs. PAINE - I don't recall seeing the blanket either.

They eventually showed her the blanket, but Ruth wouldn't budge.

Mr. JENNER - And you are certain that you did not see the blanket in your station wagon when you arrived in Irving?

Mrs. PAINE - I do not recall seeing the blanket in my station wagon.

I tell you again that when Marina was first asked about Oswald owning a rifle before anything was done to her mind, she tacitly denied that he currently owned a rifle. All subsequent revisions to that have to be lies. Oswald said that he didn't own a rifle. So, he said it, and Marina said it. They both said it.

To all Americans: your government killed Kennedy. And your government is who wove all the friggin' lies about it that plague us to this day. This is what they did to Marina.

 Let's talk about the curtain rods. Oswald denied ever telling Frazier anything about curtain rods, and I believe him, And if you believe Frazier, you better stick around to the end because that man is not right in the head and never was.

The curtain rod story is stupid. How can you compare a flimsy pair of curtain rods to a military rifle that was scoped and 42 inches long? And you don't need a bag for curtain rods. They fit right in your hand. It would be less convenient to carry them in a bag than to just carry them. And why would Oswald go to Irving for that? They weren't his curtain rods. So what, is he a thief now besides being a murderer? He had $68 in cash, which was equivalent to over $740 today. And he lived in a boarding room which had curtains. I realize that, supposedly, it was a lie, but if Oswald were going to lie, I don't think his mind would even go to that.

The whole point is moot anyway since Oswald did not own a rifle. He said he didn't, and he wasn't lying. I have explained why you can't get the rifle to Ruth Paine's garage, but you also can't get it to New Orleans. Ruth and Marina drove Oswald to the bus station when he moved to New Orleans, and they both told WC interrogators what he brought with him, and neither of them claimed that he had a rifle. The interrogators didn't even recognize the significance of it. But, if Oswald didn't take a rifle to New Orleans, then he couldn't have brought one back from New Orleans, in any way, shape, or form.

Oswald did say that he brought a bag with him on Friday morning, and it contained his lunch: cheese sandwiches and an apple. And he stated where he ate it, in the domino room. If a man is going to shoot the President of the United States at 12:30, does he enjoy a leisurely lunch at 12? I would consider that a very strange behavior.

But, just think: the Dallas Police could have checked the trash can in the domino room for the refuse from the lunch Oswald said he ate. If they didn't find it, it would have proved that he lied. Of course, they never said anything about it, but if I could think of it, and I'm no Columbo, don't you think they could? So, maybe they did check, and if so, I assume they found that refuse. But then, they said nothing about it publicly, which I consider an obstruction of justice. The American people deserved to know about it if it happened.

Frazier is a mental case and always has been. In his WC testimony, he told Joseph Ball that he watched the motorcade from the steps, standing one step down from the top, next to the handrail. But, later in the questioning, Ball asked him why he isn't seen in the Altgens photo, and Frazier said it was because he was standing way up and back in the shadows. I'm sure he was oblivious to the fact that he contradicted himself, but what about Joseph Ball? Well, he didn't put Frazier on the spot about it, and I know why. It was because Frazier was his witness; saying the things that he wanted to hear.

At one of the mock trials, Frazier said that Lovelady was very short, just 5'2'. In reality, he was 5'8". The FBI measured him. Frazier also said that Lovelady watched the motorcade from the bottom of the steps; his mind not registering on the fact that it meant he couldn't be Doorman. In reality, Lovelady was standing right next to Oswald at the top of the steps. He was the guy visoring his eyes with his hands.

Wesley Buell Frazier, Billy Nolan Lovelady, Lee Harvey Oswald. Do you notice a pattern? The use of three names, it's a lone nuts assassin thing. Larry Rivera was the first to suggest that both Frazier and Lovelady were alternate patsies, in case things didn't work out with Oswald. And I believe Larry is right. And all three were in the doorway.

But, the big mystery is: How did Frazier come to say what he did about the curtain rods? Did his interrogators give it to him? I think there is a good chance that they did. As for Oswald, he certainly didn't go to Irving to get curtain rods or a non-existent rifle. He went there to leave most of that cash with his wife (again: it was equivalent to over $1800 today, and I bet even Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos don't walk around with that much cash on them). He was also hoping that she would agree to move back in with him, now that they had that money with which to get them an apartment. Unfortunately for him, she said she wasn't ready. Still, she let him spend the night with her. And no, he didn't get up to search for a non-existent rifle and make a bag out of paper and tape. The official story of the JFK assassination is not only wrong; it's stupid,

Another big question is: how did he accumulate that $68? He hadn't worked since July, and he only started at the TSBD a month before. He made $1.11/hr, and he had to support himself and give money to Marina. So, unless he stole it, and I'm sure he didn't,, it means that somebody must have given it to him. But who? I don't know.

The official story of the JFK assassination, in all its elements, is ridiculous. It is preposterous. It has stood only because of the fiat power of the U.S. government and the subservience of the U.S. Media.

The same goes for the U.S. educational establishment. You realize that education at the college level, and even at the primary and secondary levels, depends on the federal government. And by that I mean government money. Even private svchools are dependent on government money. And adhering to the government's version of history is part of the deal.

An example of the ridiculousness is the paper bag, the one that Oswald supposedly made. And just as the Mauser rifle quickly got replaced with a Carcano, the manufactured paper bag that Detective Montgomery marched around Dealey Plaza with quickly got replaced with a weird oblong thing that looks nothing like a commercial paper bag.

This bag is obviously not just brown paper that was taped together. It is a real paper bag that was manufactured. There is no way Oswald made it. But, the whole idea of him making a paper bag is stupid. It is totally unnecessary. If he wanted to wrap the rifle parts in brown paper, he would have spread the paper open somewhere, put the rifle parts on it, and then fold it up and tape it. In other words, you would wrap it like you would wrap a gift. You wouldn't start by making a bag.

And then, according to the official story, when he was ready to assemble the rifle at the TSBD, he preserved the bag. He didn't just tear it open; he poured the parts out of it to leave the bag intact. Notice how perfectly intact the bag was. There's not a rip, tear, or hole in it. And that's ridiculous because Oswald, supposedly, had to walk several blocks carrying the bag. The hard , jagged parts of a rifle are going to rip brown paper very easily, and especially if you have to walk with the package for several blocks, as Oswald supposedly did. The claim that the parts of a 42 inch rifle were carried for several blocks in this bag is just plain stupid.

And that goes for the whole official story of the JFK assassination; it is just plain stupid. And anyone who is a proponent of it needs to get the hell out of here. If you start piping your b.s. here, I will ban you in a New York second. I am 75 years old, and I am not wasting any of my remaining time talking to idiots.