What type of gun did oswald use

The Warren Commission found that in the weeks before the assassination, Oswald kept the rifle wrapped in a blanket and hidden in the garage of friends Michael and Ruth Paine , where Marina was living at the time, and Oswald would occasionally visit. Michael Paine described "a package wrapped in a blanket," which he thought was camping equipment. He did find this odd, saying to himself "they don't make camping equipment of iron pipes any more.

The Commission concluded that Oswald had smuggled the rifle into the Texas School Book Depository on the morning of the assassination, November 22, , in a brown paper package, which he had told a co-worker contained "curtain rods," [19] although Oswald later denied this, and said that he carried only a lunch bag that day. About half an hour after the assassination of President Kennedy, a floor-by-floor search of the Texas School Book Depository Building was commenced by Dallas police, joined by sheriff's deputies.

The two officers who found the rifle — and later Captain Fritz — picked it up by the sling, but did not handle it until the arrival of Lt.

Carl Day of the crime scene search section of the identification bureau. Day then held the rifle by the stock, in one hand, "because it was too rough to hold a fingerprint" and inspected the rifle with a magnifying glass in his other hand. Also found in the same vicinity were three 6. One of the empty cases, CE , was dented in the area of the neck.

Ballistic experts testified to the HSCA that this likely occurred when the rifle was rapidly fired and the case was ejected. When four test bullets were fired from the rifle, one of the four had a dented neck on its ejected case similar to CE The rifle was subjected to further forensic examination at the laboratory. Such a palm print could not be placed on this portion of the rifle when assembled because the wooden foregrip covers the barrel.

Police Chief Jesse Curry testified that - despite believing that the FBI had no jurisdiction over the case - he complied with FBI requests to send the rifle and all other evidence to their laboratories in Washington. He testified that he kept it in the FBI office until November 27, , whereupon it was sent back to Dallas and given back to someone at the Dallas Police Department for reasons unclear.

It was later sent back to the FBI headquarters in Washington. Experts agree that palm prints are as unique as fingerprints for purposes of establishing identification. Initially mis-identified as being a German-made Mauser rifle, the Dallas police, upon examination in their lab, determined it to be an Italian-made Carcano.

The Warren Commission concluded that the initial identification of the rifle as a Mauser was in error. The Committee compared photos taken by the Dallas police of the rifle in place, a news film of the rifle being recovered, news photos of the rifle being carried from the Depository, numerous news photos and films of the rifle being carried through the halls of the Dallas police headquarters, as well as photos later taken by the FBI and the Dallas police, and compared them to the Carcano rifle held at the National Archives.

They concluded the rifle depicted in the photos and films was the same rifle held in the Archives and therefore was the Carcano and not a Mauser. This surplus-sold rifle had the markings: "CAL. The 4-power japanese telescope, made by Ordnance Optics, had been attached to the rifle by the gunsmith at Klein's Sporting Goods, an American retailer, shortly before being sold as a single unit with the surplus rifle, to Oswald. Joseph D. This bullet CE , see single bullet theory , and two bullet fragments found in the presidential limousine, were ballistically matched to the rifle found in the book depository building.

A partial palm print of Oswald was also found on the barrel of the gun. On the morning of November 23, Klein's found the order coupon and shipping record, showing the rifle was ordered by and shipped to "A. Hidell" at post office box in Dallas, Texas. The handwriting on the order coupon perfectly matched that of Oswald's when compared to his passport application and letters he had written.

The Italian Armed Forces Intelligence Agency reported that the rifle with the serial number of C was unique in its records. In , photographic analysis by the House Select Committee on Assassinations found that the rifle in the National Archives was photographically identical, in a number of distinctive marks, to the one found in the book depository and photographed at the time by numerous journalists and the police.

The rifle was also identical in its dimensions to the one seen in the Oswald backyard photos, and both had the same damage mark on the stock. The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald used the revolver to shoot and kill Dallas police officer J. Tippit about forty-five minutes after the assassination when Tippit stopped Oswald on a residential street.

On the day Kennedy was killed, Oswald was wearing a shirt of dark blue, grey-black and orange-yellow cotton fibers over a white T-shirt, the same type of fibers that were recovered from the rifle after close examination by experts. In the crevice between the butt-plate and the wooden stock of the rifle, a tuft of several cotton fibers of dark blue, grey-black and orange-yellow shades were found. During his Marine Corps service in December , Oswald scored a rating of sharpshooter twice achieving 48 and 49 out of 50 shots during rapid fire at a stationary target yards [ m] away using a standard issue M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle , although in May , he qualified as a marksman a lower classification than that of sharpshooter.

Military experts, after examining his records, characterized his firearms proficiency as "above average" and said he was, when compared to American civilian males of his age, "an excellent shot". However, Nelson Delgado, a Marine in the same unit as Oswald, used to laugh at Oswald's shooting prowess and testified that Oswald often got "Maggie's drawers"; meaning a red flag that is waved from the rifle pits to indicate a complete miss of the target during qualification firing.

He also said that Oswald did not seem to care if he missed or not. Skeptics have argued that expert marksmen could not duplicate Oswald's alleged feat in their first try during re-enactments by the Warren Commission and CBS In those tests the marksmen attempted to hit the target three times within 5. This time span has been heavily disputed. The Warren Commission itself estimated that the time span between the two shots that hit President Kennedy was 4. If the second shot missed assuming the first and third shots hit the president , then 4.

If the first or third shot missed, that would give a minimum time of 7. Many of CBS's 11 volunteer marksmen, who unlike Oswald had no prior experience with a properly "sighted" Carcano, were able to hit the test target two times in under the time allowed.

The only man who scored three hits was a firearms examiner from Maryland by the name of Howard Donahue. Frazier testified that "It is a very accurate weapon. The targets we fired show that. Frazier testified that the scope's high variation would actually work in the shooter's favor: with a target moving away from the shooter, no "lead" correction would have been necessary to follow the target.

He was unable to determine when the defect occurred before the FBI received the rifle and scope on November 27, In an effort to test the rifle under conditions that matched the assassination, the Infantry Weapons Evaluation Branch of the U. Furthermore, no elevator was at the second floor when they arrived there. There was no elevator on the third or fourth floor.

The east elevator was on the fifth floor when they arrived; the west elevator was not. They took the east elevator to the seventh floor and ran up a stairway to the roof where they searched for several minutes. They had no exact memory of the events of that afternoon.

Truly was probably correct in stating that the west elevator was on the fifth floor when he looked up the elevator shaft from the first floor. The west elevator was not on the fifth floor when Baker and Truly reached that floor, probably because Jack Dougherty took it to the first floor while Baker and Truly were running up the stairs or in the lunchroom with Oswald.

Neither elevator could have been used by Oswald as a means of descent. Oswald's use of the stairway is consistent with the testimony of other employees in the building. Three employees-- James Jarman, Jr. They rushed to the west windows after the shots were fired and remained there until after they saw Patrolman Baker's white helmet on the fifth floor moving toward the elevator.

In all likelihood Dougherty took the elevator down from the fifth floor after Jarman, Page Norman, and Williams ran to the west windows and were deciding what to do. None of these three men saw Dougherty, probably because of the anxiety of the moment and because of the books which may have blocked the view. Actually she noticed no one on the back stairs. If she descended from the fourth to the first floor as fast as she claimed in her testimony, she would have seen Baker or Truly on the first floor or on the stairs, unless they were already in the second-floor lunchroom talking to Oswald.

When she reached the first floor, she actually saw Shelley and Lovelady slightly east of the east elevator. Shelley and Lovelady, however, have testified that they were watching the parade from the top step of the building entrance when Gloria Calverly, who works in the Depository Building, ran up and said that the President had been shot.

They reentered the building by the rear door several minutes after Baker and Truly rushed through the front entrance? Oswald's departure from building. Reid, clerical supervisor for the Texas School Book Depository, saw him walk through the clerical office on the second floor toward the door leading to the front stairway.

Reid had watched the parade from the sidewalk in front of the building with Truly and Mr. Campbell, vice president of the Depository. As she approached her desk, she saw Oswald. As Oswald passed Mrs. Reid she said, "Oh, the President has been shot, but maybe they didn't hit him.

The only exit from the office in the direction Oswald was moving was through the door to the front stairway. Reid testified that when she saw Oswald, he was wearing a T-shirt and no jacket. Reid believes that she returned to her desk from the street about 2 minutes after the shooting. Reid ran the distance three times and was timed in 2 minutes by stopwatch.

After leaving Mrs. Reid in the front office, Oswald could have gone down the stairs and out the front door by p. At that time the building had not yet been sealed off by the police. While it was difficult to determine exactly when the police sealed off the building, the earliest estimates would still have permitted Oswald to leave the building by One of the police officers assigned to the corner of Elm and Houston Streets for the Presidential motorcade, W.

Barnett, testified that immediately after the shots he went to the rear of the building to check the fire escape. He then returned to the corner of Elm and Houston where he met a sergeant who instructed him to find out the name of the building. Barnett ran to the building, noted its name, and then returned to the corner.

The sergeant did the same thing at the rear of the building. According to Barnett, "there were people going in and out" during this period. Harkness of the Dallas police said that to his knowledge the building was not sealed off at p. Sawyer's car was parked in front of the building. Sawyer heard a call over the police radio that the shots had come from the Depository Building.

Special Agent Forrest V. Sorrels of the Secret Service, who had been in the motorcade, testified that after driving to Parkland Hospital, he returned to the Depository Building about 20 minutes after the shooting, found no police officers at the rear door and was able to enter through this door without identifying himself.

Truly, who had returned with Patrolman Baker from the roof, saw the police questioning the warehouse employees.

Approximately 15 men worked in the warehouse and Truly noticed that Oswald was not among those being questioned. The address listed was for the Paine home in Irving. Truly gave this information to Captain Fritz who was on the sixth floor at the time. Fritz believed that he learned of Oswald's absence after the rifle was found. Conclusion Fingerprint and palmprint evidence establishes that Oswald handled two of the four cartons next to the window and also handled a paper bag which was found near the cartons.

Oswald was seen in the vicinity of the southeast corner of the sixth floor approximately 35 minutes before the assassination and no one could be found who saw Oswald anywhere else in the building until after the shooting. An eyewitness to the shooting immediately provided a description of the man in the window which was similar to Oswald's actual appearance. This witness identified Oswald in a lineup as the man most nearly resembling the man he saw and later identified Oswald as the man he observed.

Oswald's known actions in the building immediately after the assassination are consistent with his having been at the southeast corner window of the sixth floor at p. On the basis of these findings the Commission has concluded that. Oswald, at the time of the assassination, was present at the window from which the shots were fired.

He arrived at approximately 1 p. At Page about p. Tippit, was shot less than 1 mile from Oswald's roominghouse. In deciding whether Oswald killed Patrolman Tippit the Commission considered the following: 1 positive identification of the killer by two eyewitnesses who saw the shooting and seven eyewitnesses who heard the shots and saw the gunman flee the scene with the revolver in his hand, 2 testimony of firearms identification experts establishing the identity of the murder weapon, 3 evidence establishing the ownership of the murder weapon, 4 evidence establishing the ownership of a zipper jacket found along the path of flight taken by the gunman from the scene of the shooting to the place of arrest.

He probably walked east on Elm Street for seven blocks to the corner of Elm and Murphy where he boarded a bus which was heading back in the direction of the Depository Building, on its way to the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. See Commission Exhibit A, p. When Oswald was apprehended, a bus transfer marked for the Lakewood-Marsalis route was found in his shirt pocket. On the basis of this punchmark, which was distinctive to each Dallas driver, the transfer was conclusively identified as having been issued by Cecil J.

McWatters, a busdriver for the Dallas Transit Co. Paul and Elm Streets at p. So I gave her a transfer and opened the door and she was going out the gentleman I had picked up about two blocks [back] asked for a transfer and got off at the same place in the middle of the block where the lady did.

Page The man was on the bus approximately 4 minutes. He picked Oswald from the lineup as the man who had boarded the bus at the "lower end of town on Elm around Houston," and who, during the ride south on Marsalis, had an argument with a woman passenger. Riding on the bus was an elderly woman, Mary Bledsoe, who confirmed the mute evidence of the transfer.

Oswald had rented a room from Mrs. Bledsoe about 6 weeks before, on October 7, but she had asked him to leave at the end of a week. Bledsoe told him "I am not going to rent to you any more.

There was just something about him I didn't like or want him Just didn't want him around me. Bledsoe came downtown to watch the Presidential motorcade. She boarded the Marsalis bus at St. Paul and Elm Streets to return home. Let's see. I don't know for sure. Oswald got on. He looks like a maniac. His sleeve was out here.

His shirt was undone. I didn't want to know I even seen him Hole in his sleeve right here. Bledsoe said these words, she pointed to her fight elbow. Bledsoe identified the shirt as the one Oswald was wearing and she stated she was certain that it was Oswald who boarded the bus. Bledsoe recalled that Oswald sat halfway to the rear of the bus which moved slowly and intermittently as traffic became heavy. As the bus neared Lamar Street, Oswald left the bus and disappeared into the crowd.

Instead of waiting there, Oswald apparently went as far away as he could and boarded the first Oak Cliff bus which came along rather than wait for one which stopped across the street from his roominghouse. In a reconstruction of this bus trip, agents of the Secret Service and the FBI walked the seven blocks from the front entrance of the Depository Building to Murphy and Elm three times, averaging 6.

Roger D. Craig, a deputy sheriff of Dallas County, claimed that about 15 minutes after the assassination he saw a man, whom he later identified as Oswald, coming from the direction of the Depository Building and running down the hill north of Elm Street toward a light-colored Rambler station wagon, which was moving slowly along Elm toward the underpass The station wagon stopped to pick up the man and then drove off. Captain Fritz stated that a deputy sheriff whom he could not identify did ask to see him that afternoon and told him a similar story to Craig's.

If Craig saw Oswald that afternoon, he saw him through the glass windows of the office. And neither Captain Fritz nor any other officer can remember that Oswald dramatically arose from his chair and said, Page "Everybody will know who I am now. Craig may have seen a person enter a white Rambler station wagon 15 or 20 minutes after the shooting and travel west on Elm Street, but the Commission concluded that this man was not Lee Harvey Oswald, because of the overwhelming evidence that Oswald was far away from the building by that time.

The taxicab ride. He was taken to the lineup room where, according to Whaley, five young teenagers, all handcuffed together, were displayed with Oswald. Whaley picked Oswald. He said, It was him all right, the same man. They knew what they were doing and they were trying to railroad him and he wanted his lawyer.

There were four men altogether, not six men, in the lineup with Oswald. Only two of the men in the lineup with Oswald were teenagers: John T.

Horn, aged 18, was No. Whaley testified that he did not keep an accurate time record of his trips but recorded them by the quarter hour, and that sometimes he made his entry right after a trip while at other times he waited to record three or four trips.

The man was dressed in faded blue color khaki work clothes, a brown shirt, and some kind of work jacket that almost matched his pants. I asked him where he wanted to go. And he said, " North Beckley. I wonder what the hell is the uproar?

So I figured he was one of these people that don't like to talk so I never said any more to him. But when I got pretty close to block at Neches and North Beckley which is the block, he said, "This will do fine," and I pulled over to the curb right.

He gave me a dollar bill, the trip was 95 cents. He gave me a dollar bill and didn't say anything, just got out and closed the door and walked around the front of the cab over to the other side of the street [east side of the street]. Of course, the traffic was moving through there and I put it in gear and moved on, that is the last I saw of him.

He marked what, he thought was the intersection of Neches and Beckley on a map of Dallas with a large "X. Neches is within one-half block of the roominghouse at North Beckley where Oswald was living. The block of North Beckley is five blocks south of the roominghouse. The route of the taxicab was retraced under the direction of Whaley. Oswald could not possibly have been wearing the blue jacket during the trip with Whaley, since it was found in the "domino" room of the Depository late in November.

Bledsoe saw Oswald in the bus without a jacket and wearing a shirt with a hole at the elbow. If the cab ride was approximately 6 minutes, as was the reconstructed ride, he would have reached his destination at approximately p.

If he was discharged at Neely and Beckley and walked directly to his roominghouse, he would have arrived there about to 1 p. From the block of North Beckley, the walk would be a few minutes longer, but in either event he would have been in the roominghouse at about 1 p. This is the approximate time he entered the roominghouse, according to Earlene Roberts, the housekeeper there. Arrival and departure from roominghouse. She first saw him the day he rented a room at that address on October 14, Lee on the roominghouse register.

Roberts testified that on Thursday, November 21, Oswald did not come home. On Friday, November 22, about 1 p. She recalled that it was subsequent to the time the President had been shot. After a friend had called and told her, "President Kennedy has been shot," she turned on the television.

When Oswald came in she said, "Oh, you are in a hurry," but Oswald did not respond. He hurried to his room and stayed no longer than 3 or 4 minutes.

Roberts saw him a few seconds later standing near the bus stop in front of the house on the east side of Beckley.

If Oswald left. Tippit joined the Dallas Police Department in July He drove a police car painted distinctive colors with No. Tippit rode alone, as only one man was normally assigned to a patrol car in residential areas during daylight shifts.

The dispatcher ordered Tippit to be: " About feet past the intersection Tippit stopped a man walking east along the south side of Patton. The man's general description was similar to the one broadcast over the police radio. Tippit stopped the man and called him to his car. He approached the car and apparently exchanged words with Tippit through the right front or vent window. Tippit got out and started to walk around the front of the car As Tippit reached the left front wheel the man pulled out a revolver and fired several shots.

Four bullets hit Tippit and killed him instantly. The gunman started back toward Patton Avenue, ejecting the empty cartridge cases before reloading with fresh bullets. Page Eyewitnesses At least 12 persons saw the man with the revolver in the vicinity of the Tippit crime scene at or immediately after the shooting.

By the evening of November 22, five of them had identified Lee Harvey Oswald in police lineups as the man they saw. A sixth did so the next day. Three others subsequently identified Oswald from a photograph.

Two witnesses testified that Oswald resembled the man they had seen. One witness felt he was too distant from the gunman to make a positive identification. A taxi driver, William Scoggins, was eating lunch in his cab which was parked on Patton facing the southeast corner of 10th Street and Patton Avenue a few feet to the north.

About feet from the comer the police car pulled up alongside a man on the sidewalk. This man, dressed in a light-colored jacket, approached the car. Scoggins lost sight of him behind some shrubbery on the southeast corner lot, but he saw the policeman leave the car, heard three or four shots, and then saw the policeman fall. Scoggins hurriedly left his seat and hid behind the cab as the man came back toward the corner with gun in hand. The man cut across the yard through some bushes, passed within 12 feet of Scoggins, and ran south on Patton.

Scoggins saw him and heard him mutter either "Poor damn cop" or "Poor dumb cop. He had not seen Oswald on television and had not been shown any photographs of Oswald by the police. As he crossed the intersection a block east of 10th and Patton, he saw a policeman standing by the left door of the police car parked along the south side of 10th. Benavides saw a man standing at the right side of the parked police car.

He then heard three shots and saw the policeman fall to the ground. By this time the pickup truck was across the street and about 25 feet from the police car. Benavides stopped and waited in the truck until the gunman ran to the corner. He saw him empty the gun and throw the shells into some bushes on the southeast corner lot.

Poe who arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting. When questioned by police officers on the evening of November 22, Benavides told them that he did not think that he could identify the man who fired the shots. As a result, they did not take him to the police station. Page He testified that the picture of Oswald which he saw later on television bore a resemblance to the man who shot Officer Tippit.

Helen Markham, a waitress in downtown Dallas, was about to cross 10th Street at Patton. As she waited on the northwest corner of the intersection for traffic to pass, she noticed a young man as be was "almost ready to get up on the curb" at the southeast corner of the intersection, approximately 50 feet away.

The man continued along 10th Street. Markham saw a police car slowly approach the man from the rear and stop alongside of him. She saw the man come to the right window of the police car. As he talked, he leaned on the ledge of the right window with his arms. The man appeared to step back as the policeman "calmly opened the car door" and very slowly got out and walked toward the front of the car.

The man pulled a gun. Markham heard three shots and saw the policeman fall to the ground near the left front wheel. She raised her hands to her eyes as the man started to walk back toward Patton. I didn't know what he was doing.

I was afraid he was fixing to kill me. Markham then ran to Officer Tippit's side and saw him lying in a pool of blood. Markham, who had been greatly upset by her experience, was able to view a lineup of four men handcuffed together at the police station.

Graves, who had been with Mrs. Markham before the lineup testified that she was "quite hysterical" and was "crying and upset. Markham started crying when Oswald walked into the lineup room. Markham confirmed her positive identification of Lee Harvey Oswald as the man she saw kill Officer Tippit. Markham's identification of Oswald, the Commission considered certain allegations that Mrs. Markham described the man who killed Patrolman Tippit as "short, a little on the heavy side," and having "somewhat bushy" hair.

Markham is alleged to have provided such a description. Markham strongly reaffirmed her positive identification of Oswald and denied having described the killer as short, stocky and having bushy hair. She stated that the man weighed about pounds. See Pizzo Exhibit No. Although in the phone conversation she described the man as "short," on November 22, within minutes of the shooting and before the lineup, Mrs. Markham described the man to the police as 5'8" tall.

Markham initially denied that she ever had the above phone conversation. Markham's contemporaneous description of the gunman and her positive identification of Oswald at a police lineup, the Commission considers her testimony reliable. However, even in the absence of Mrs. Markham's testimony, there is ample evidence to identify Oswald as the killer of Tippit. Two young women, Barbara Jeanette Davis and Virginia Davis, were in an apartment of a multiple-unit house on the southeast corner of 10th and Patton when they heard the sound of gunfire and the screams of Helen Markham.

They ran to the door in time to see a man with a revolver cut across their lawn and disappear around a corner of the house onto Patton. Later in the day each woman found an empty shell on the ground near the house. These two shells were delivered to the police. She was not sure whether she had seen his picture in a newspaper on the afternoon or evening of November 22 prior to the lineup.

When they made him turn sideways, I was positive that was the one I seen. Each testified that she was the first to make the identification. He looked west on 10th and saw a man running to the west and a policeman falling to the ground. Smith failed to make himself known to the police on November Several days later he reported what he had seen and was questioned by FBI Page agents. In the picture the hair was brown. They heard the sound of shots to the north of their lot.

Both ran to the sidewalk on the east side of Patton at a point about a half a block south of 10th. They saw a man coming south on Patton with a revolver held high in his right hand. According to Callaway, the man crossed to the west side of Patton. Callaway picked up the gun. Early in the evening of November 22, Guinyard and Callaway viewed the same lineup of four men from which Mrs.

Markham had earlier made her identification of Lee Harvey Oswald. Both men picked Oswald as the man who had run south on Patton with a gun in his hand. I stepped to the back of the room, so I could kind of see him from the same distance which I had seen him before. And when he came out I knew him. I pointed him out right there. As Oswald ran south on Patton Avenue toward Jefferson Boulevard he was moving in the direction of a used-car lot located on the southeast corner of this intersection.

Lewis were on the lot at the time, and they saw a white male with a revolver in his hands running south on Patton. When the man reached Jefferson, he turned right and headed west. Reynolds and Patterson decided to follow him. When he reached a gasoline service station one block away he turned north and walked toward a parking area in the rear of the station. Neither Reynolds nor Patterson saw the man after he turned off Jefferson at the service station.

Russell and Patterson were shown a picture of Oswald and they stated that Oswald was the man they saw on November 22, Russell confirmed this statement in a sworn affidavit for the Commission. He was then shown two photographs of Oswald and he advised that Oswald was "unquestionably" the man he saw.

Lewis said in an interview that because of the distance from which he observed the gunman he would hesitate to state whether the man was identical with Oswald. Two of the arresting officers placed their initials on the weapon and a third inscribed his name. All three identified Exhibit No. Cortlandt Cunningham, of the Firearms Identification Unit of the FBI Laboratory, testified that he compared the four empty cartridge cases found near the scene of the shooting with a test cartridge fired from the weapon in Oswald's possession when he was arrested.

Cunningham declared that this weapon fired the four cartridges to the exclusion of all other weapons. Identification was effected through breech face marks and firing pin marks. Frazier and Charles Killion, other FBI firearms experts, independently examined the four cartridge cases and arrived at the same conclusion as Cunningham.

He concluded that all of these cartridges were fired from the same weapon. This caused the bullets to have an erratic passage through the barrel and impressed upon the lead of the bullets inconsistent individual characteristics which made identification impossible. Consecutive bullets fired from the revolver by the FBI experts could not be identified as having been fired from that revolver.

Cunningham testified that all of the bullets were mutilated, one being useless for comparison purposes. All four bullets were fired from a weapon with five lands and grooves and a right twist which were the rifling characteristics of the revolver taken from Oswald. He concluded, however, that he could not say whether the four bullets were fired from the revolver in Oswald's possession.

He declared that this bullet was fired from the same weapon that fired the test bullets to the exclusion of all other weapons. But he agreed that because the other three bullets were mutilated, he could not determine if they had been fired from the same weapon as the test bullets.

Three of the bullets recovered from Tippit's body were manufactured by Winchester-Western, and the fourth bullet by Remington-Peters, but only two of the four discarded cartridge cases found on the lawn at 10th Street and Patton Avenue were of Winchester-Western manufacture.

And though only one bullet of Remington-Peters manufacture was recovered, two empty cartridge cases of that make were retrieved. Therefore, either one bullet of Remington-Peters manufacture is missing or one used Remington-Peters cartridge case, which may have been in the revolver before the shooting, was discarded along with the others as Oswald left the scene.

If a bullet is missing, five were fired. This corresponds with the observation and memory of Ted Callaway, and possibly Warren Reynolds, but not with the other eyewitnesses who claim to have heard from two to four shots. Page of this type of revolver. Among these guns was a. Boone also thinks Jack Ruby, who shot Oswald two days later, acted not out of a sense of misguided patriotism, but with the idea that by killing Oswald he would help his struggling burlesque business.

I really believe he thought he would never get convicted for shooting Oswald. Facebook Twitter Email. JFK: Deputy who found Oswald rifle continues to tell his story. Scott Kirk Special to the Reporter-News.