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
Oswald’s repeated use of false names is probably not to be
disassociated from his antisocial and criminal inclinations. No doubt
he purchased his weapons under the name of Hidell in attempt to prevent
their ownership from being traced. Oswald’s creation of false names
and ficititious personalities is treated in the discussion of possible
motives set forth in chapter VII. Whatever its significance in that
respect may be, the Commission has found no indication that Oswald’s
use of aliases was linked with any conspiracy with others.
_Ownership of a second rifle._--The Commission has investigated a
report that, during the first 2 weeks of November 1963, Oswald had a
telescopic sight mounted and sighted on a rifle at a sporting goods
store in Irving, Tex. The main evidence that Oswald had such work
performed for him is an undated repair tag bearing the name “Oswald”
from the Irving Sports Shop in Irving, Tex. On November 25, 1963, Dial
D. Ryder, an employee of the Irving Sports Shop, presented this tag
to agents of the FBI, claiming that the tag was in his handwriting.
The undated tag indicated that three holes had been drilled in an
unspecified type of rifle and a telescopic sight had been mounted on
the rifle and boresighted.[C6-627]
As discussed in chapter IV, the telescopic sight on the C2766
Mannlicher-Carcano rifle was already mounted when shipped to Oswald,
and both Ryder and his employer, Charles W. Greener, feel certain
that they never did any work on this rifle.[C6-628] If the repair
tag actually represented a transaction involving Lee Harvey Oswald,
therefore, it would mean that Oswald owned another rifle. Although this
would not alter the evidence which establishes Oswald’s ownership of
the rifle used to assassinate President Kennedy, the possession of a
second rifle warranted investigation because it would indicate that a
possibly important part of Oswald’s life had not been uncovered.
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