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.

 Some guy tried to make little of the idea that Oswald ordered the rifle as A. Hidell and had it sent to his P.O. Box, that of Lee Harvey Oswald. I asked at the post office and was told that if they notice it, they will definitely question the owner and ask who A. Hidell is. But, they admitted that, no infrequently, it goes unnoticed.

But, it's not going to go unnoticed when it's a rifle. A rifle doesn't fit in a P.O. Box. All they can do is put a notice in the box saying that there's something being held for you, and you need to go to the counter.

So, what was going to happen when Oswald went to the counter? He would have said he was here to pick up the rifle, and he would have showed the clerk the notice. And the notice would have said that the package was for A. Hidell. So, the clerk would have asked, "Are you A. Hidell?" And Oswald would have said that he was Lee Harvey Oswald, but that A. Hidell is an alias he uses. And the clerk would have said,

"How do we know that? Maybe A. Hidell is someone else, and you're just saying that to get his rifle. It's not like we can take your word for it. And why do you need an alias? Why didn't you order it under your own name? So, I'll tell you what we're going to do: We're going to return this rifle to Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago, and you can order it again, except this time, do it as Lee Harvey Oswald. Now: get the Hell out of here."

Now, that last line is more a Ralph Cinque thing. I doubt the postal clerk would have said that. But, the rest of it, he or she would have said, or something like it.

And why should we believe that Oswald had a P.O. Box? Postal Inspector Harry Hines said that the only thing Oswald got in his P.O. Box were Russian and Socialist newspapers. Do you really think Oswald subscribed to Russian and Socialist newspapers? And why would he need a P.O. Box for that? Why not have them sent to his home? Hines, by the way, was evil. He is also the one who lied saying that Oswald reversed his denial about not having gone to Mexico City at the Sunday morning interrogation. That is absurd, And why was a Postal Inspector invited to an Oswald interrogation? What's up with that?

I do NOT believe that Oswald had a P.O. Box. I think it's a lie, and to help sell the lie, the phony note from Oswald to his wife, written in perfect Russian, which was a to-do list, started with "Better go to the Post Office." Why was that important? She certainly had no interest in Russian and Socialist newspapers.

I tell you again that the U.S. government killed Kennedy, and Judgement Day is coming.

 

Bravo, Bill Binnie, for this brilliant piece on the Backyard Photos, which surely are bogus. To everyone, this is brilliant. Ralph Cinque 

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Bill Binnie

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The Backyard Photos are another topic that people discuss despite knowing a fraction of what they should know- This might help: March 31, 1963- LHO- Backyard Pictures- Oswald appeared to have posed for two pictures taken by Marina in the backyard of the Neely Street apartment in which he held his rifle and copies of the Worker and the Militant with his revolver tucked in his belt. He supposedly gave one of the pictures to his wife and asked her to keep it for June.

Two pictures were obtained from the garage of the Paines house on the afternoon of November 23, 1963. The Dallas Police found and marked those photographs as 133A and 133B, as well as a negative for 133B. Eventually there were seven total photographs in the series. 133C and 133D were provided by the widow of Dallas Police Officer Roscoe White. 133A Stovall and 133C Stovall were provided by Officer Stovall. 133A de Mohrenschildt was provided by George’s widow, Jean. On the back of 133A de Mohrenschildt was inscribed To My Friend George from Lee Oswald, 5463. In darker ink another transcription reads in Russian acrylic Hunter of Fascists, ha ha ha. HSCA handwriting expert Joesph McNally and two other experts said that the first inscription was Oswald’s handwriting. The Hunter of Fascists writing was found to not match Lee, Marina or George de Mohrenschildt. McNally said the Hunter phrase was written by one person and then retraced by someone unfamiliar with Russian acrylic. de Mohrenschildt testified that his wife found this picture in a vinyl record sleeve from his storage unit after they returned from Haiti. Michael Paine had dropped off the records at Everett Glovers house. de Mohrenschildt had let Marina borrow some of his English language records to help her learn English was the explanation. The Dallas Police had inventoried the vinyl records at the Paine house exhaustively as they did with the entire contents so 133A de Mohrenschildt was somehow missed or it was put in the record sleeve after the records had been returned by the investigators.

The 133B negative was found to have come from the Oswald Reflex camera, which Marina eventually said Oswald owned. Three weeks after the assassination, Robert Oswald went to the Paine house to pick up items Ruth Paine said belonged to Oswald. On February 24,1964 Robert gave the camera to the FBI. Robert said Lee bought the Imperial Reflex camera in 1957 and left it with Robert when Lee went to Russia. When Lee returned from Russia in 1962, Lee reacquired the camera from Robert. But the Dallas Police inventory of Oswald’s belongings did not list the Reflex camera. The Police did inventory a Russian Quera 2 camera and Stereo Realist camera. When shown a picture of the Reflex camera all four officers who did the inventory were certain it was not among the Oswald possessions found at the Paine house. A fifth officer Detective John McCabe told the FBI that he saw a light gray box camera in the Paines garage, but did not consider the Reflex camera to have evidentiary value to list it.

The Reflex camera was difficult to use and pictures were taken by holding it at waist height and looking down onto a view finder. Marina said initially that the camera she used was a point and click type. On January 29, 1964, Marina said Oswald’s owned two cameras. The Russian Quera 2 and the Stereo Realist which was consistent with what the Police inventoried. On February 19 th Marina indicated that the Stereo Realist camera did not look familiar. On February 25 th Marina said the Reflex camera was the one Oswald owned and was the camera Marina used to take the backyard photographs. On August 12 th 1964, the Stereo Realist camera was returned to Ruth Paine who said it was hers.

Based on Marina’s testimony, the only picture she took was the backyard picture. But there were eleven pictures taken with the Reflex camera mostly of Marina and June taken in New Orleans. A letter from Marina to Ruth indicates that it was Ruth who took the other eleven pictures. Marina indicated that Oswald developed the backyard photographs but the HSCA photo panel determined that both of the 133A and 133B photographs found in the Paines garage were developed in a drug store. The 133A de Mohrenschildt was developed non- commercially. When Oswald was shown the backyard picture by Fritz, he did not want to discuss it and then indicated he understood photography very well and would prove the picture was a fake.

The black polo style shirt and black pants worn in the photographs were not among Oswald’s belongings and there is no evidence Oswald owned such clothes. Being a frugal man with limited means, it would be very unlikely Oswald would have purchased expensive clothes and disposed of them. The rifle sling in the pictures was not the sling that was on the TSBD Carcano. The sling in the picture was confirmed by the FBI expert Lindahl Schoenfeld to be a piece of rope and the TSBD sling was a strap. The gun owner could have upgraded the strap but it hard to believe the very frugal Oswald with minimal funds would have made this cosmetic investment. There is strong debate about shadows below the chin being inconsistent with those from the rest of the body. The FBI went to great lengths to prove the shadows were compatible and then undermined their work by printing a reproduction that removed the image of the face. Differences in the jaw bone and chin structure between the person in the backyard picture and the historical Oswald are cited. Another issue was the 1993 discovery of a ghost photograph in which the person is carefully cutout of the backyard picture and only the background remained. A photograph in which Police Officer Bobby Brown replicated the backyard photograph was also found. Brown claimed that the Secret Service asked him to take the picture a few days after the assassination. Brown said he cut his image out of the ghost photograph because he didn’t want to be identified with it. A short examination shows that the ghost photograph is instead an exact match for Oswald in image 133C. When confronted with the proof, Brown changed his testimony and said he had cut out the Oswald image because the FBI wanted to have Oswald’s image on a white background. There was never an explanation as to why.

Detectives Amadic and Rose were asked how they found the pictures. Both said the pictures were among a packet of 47 photographs they found. Adamic said he numbered and initialed each photograph which was evident in the Warren Commission evidence. But Rose said he and McCabe found the photographs, which is demonstrably untrue. The pamphlets were incongruous since the Militant had a Troskyite message in favor of an international communist revolutions versus The Worker which was aligned with the Soviet Union. Also three people claimed to have seen the backyard photographs before they were found in the Paine’s garage on the afternoon of November 23. Reporter Jerry O’Leary confirmed to the FBI that he was shown one of the backyard photographs the evening of November 22 or the morning of November 23 at the Dallas Police Station. Michael Paine told the Warren Commission that on the night of the assassination the police asked him where Oswald was standing when he was holding the rifle in the picture that ended up on the cover of Life Magazine. Paine told the police he thought it was taken in the back of the Neely Street apartment because of the clapboard, although Paine had never seen the back of the Neely Street residence. Fritz describes asking Oswald late in the morning of November 23 or the early afternoon about the backyard photographs. Fritz said Oswald was evasive about the location and told Oswald that Mr. Paine mentioned the Neely Street residence. Michael Paine was at the Police station on Friday night and not Saturday morning or afternoon, so it appears that the backyard photograph was being discussed among O’Leary, Paine and Fritz before they had been found.

A core concern about the backyard photographs were the Roscoe White 133C and D versions. White began working with Dallas Police on October 7 th 1963, in the photographic department. White also served in the Marines and was at the Atsugi Japan base at the same time as Oswald. White’s wife Geneva worked in some capacity at Ruby’s Carousel Club. White’s wife and son believe that White was involved in the assassination. It was asserted that the subject of the backyard photograph was White and Oswald’s face was superimposed as Oswald claimed, based on a deformation of the right wrist that White suffered. One important piece of evidence that was not present during the initial searches of the property, but turned up at a later date, was the Imperial Reflex duo-lens camera. This inexpensive, gray metal body camera was proven by FBI photographic expert Lyndal Shaneyfelt to have taken the Backyard Photos. Marina stated that she had taken the photos with an American-made box camera gray made of aluminum. She eventually indicated that she had to look down into the viewfinder located on the top of the camera while holding the camera at chest level. A problem is that the persons wedding ring changes fingers depending on which picture is viewed-

April 5, 1963- LHO- Backyard Photographs- de Mohrenschildt said he was in Haiti so this could not be the date referenced in the Hunter of Fascists in the 133A de Mohrenschildt photograph because he would not have seen Oswald at that date. But this was untrue as de Mohrenschildt did not go to Haiti until April 13 or 14-

November 23, 1963- LHO- Backyard Photographs- The infamous Oswald backyard photographs were initially obtained from a search of the Paine garage in the afternoon. The Dallas Police found 133A and 133B and the negative for 133B. These pictures were turned over to the FBI and later reviewed by the Warren Commission-

February 21, 1964- LHO- Backyard Pictures- Life Magazine printed a highly incriminating cover picture of Oswald that was believed to have been taken late March 1963. The Warren Commission Report had not been issued and Life Magazine was read by half of the US population-

3.00.00 PM- LHO- Minox Camera- At least two cameras were found at the Paines’ on November 22. Numerous inventories kept by the Dallas Police listed a third camera: Item 375 “Minox” camera, or “small German camera and black case on chain.” And item 377, four rolls of Minox film. Minox was smaller than a cigar and weighed less than a cigarette lighter, featuring an excellent lens. A costly item far beyond Oswald’s budget, the Minox camera gained notoriety as a spy camera.

Detective Rose testified “A couple of FBI agents made three different trips to our office to talk to me about this camera. After they had received all the property they found that I had made a mistake, and that that really wasn’t a camera, it was a Minox light meter. However, as I told them at the time, I was sure that I had not made a mistake; it definitely was a camera and definitely did have film in it. However, they wanted me to change that in our property invoice to read Minox light meter and not read Minox camera. We never did change it.”

By January 30, according to the FBI, there never was a Minox camera at the Paine home and later that day, Ruth Paine stepped forward to claim ownership of a Minox on behalf of her husband. A Minox camera with serial number 27259, was turned into the FBI by Michael Paine on January 31, and returned to him shortly thereafter. However, according to researcher John Armstrong, another Minox camera is still housed in the National Archives and has been altered to prevent its serial number from being retrieved. It was speculated that Oswald may have received a Minox camera as part of his military training-