Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy — John Shaqi
Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
On the basis of the evidence developed in chapter IV the Commission
concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald carried the rifle used in the
assassination into the Depository Building on Friday, November 22,
1963, in the handmade brown paper bag found near the window from
which the shots were fired.[C6-22] The arrangement by which Buell
Wesley Frazier drove Oswald between Irving and Dallas was an innocent
one, having commenced when Oswald first started working at the
Depository.[C6-23] As noted above, it was Frazier’s sister, Linnie May
Randle, who had suggested to Ruth Paine that Oswald might be able to
find employment at the Depository. When Oswald started working there,
Frazier, who lived only a half block away from the Paines, offered to
drive Oswald to and from Irving whenever he was going to stay at the
Paines’ home.[C6-24] Although Oswald’s request for a ride to Irving on
Thursday, November 21, was a departure from the normal weekend pattern,
Oswald gave the explanation that he needed to obtain curtain rods for
an “apartment” in Dallas.[C6-25] This served also to explain the long
package which he took with him from Irving to the Depository Building
the next morning.[C6-26] Further, there is no evidence that Ruth Paine
or Marina Oswald had reason to believe that Oswald’s return was in
any way related to an attempt to shoot the President the next day.
Although his visit was a surprise, since he arrived on Thursday instead
of Friday for his usual weekend visit, both women testified that they
thought he had come to patch up a quarrel which he had with his wife a
few days earlier when she learned that he was living in Dallas under an
assumed name.[C6-27]
It has also been shown that Oswald had the opportunity to work in
the Paines’ garage on Thursday evening and prepare the rifle by
disassembling it, if it were not already disassembled, and packing
it in the brown bag.[C6-28] It has been demonstrated that the paper
and tape from which the bag was made came from the shipping room of
the Texas School Book Depository and that Oswald had access to this
material.[C6-29] Neither Ruth Paine nor Marina Oswald saw the paper
bag or the paper and tape out of which the bag was constructed.[C6-30]
If Oswald actually prepared the bag in the Depository out of materials
available to him there, he could have concealed it in the jacket or
shirt which he was wearing.[C6-31] The Commission has found no evidence
which suggests that Oswald required or in fact received any assistance
in bringing the rifle into the building other than the innocent
assistance provided by Frazier in the form of the ride to work.
Accomplices at the Scene of the Assassination
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