Week 6 of the serialized conspiracy theory about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The Mail-Order Rifle
Oswald was charged with the murder of the President at 1:30am, November 23rd. The key to proving his guilt lay in linking him to the alleged murder weapon. The Mannlicher-Carcano rifle in the FBI’s possession might not have been the rifle found near the sniper’s nest (that gun had been identified as a Mauser), but it most certainly belonged to Oswald. However, despite an adjustment of the rifle’s badly misaligned telescopic sight, no marksman has ever duplicated the speed and accuracy attributed to Oswald and his notoriously unreliable Mannlicher-Carcano.
The FBI discovered that one A. Hidell, using Oswald’s Dallas post office box, had mail-ordered such a rifle eight months earlier. When two forged military IDs in the name of Alek J. Hidell were found in Oswald’s wallet upon his arrest, Dallas Police asked Military Intelligence to check their files on Hidell, which they found cross-referenced to Oswald. That the military had files on Oswald’s rarely used alias, Hidell, suggests they were aware of his gun purchases. Unfortunately, these Oswald-Hidell files were later “routinely” destroyed before being examined by official investigators.
When Oswald was shown a photo of himself holding a rifle in one hand and a “communist” newspaper in the other, he claimed the picture, found among his possessions, was a fake, and later hew would show how it was done. By 1975 three versions of this photo had surfaced, each different than the others, but all with the identical head, and all with mismatched shadows. Some researchers think Oswald created these photo-montages for a still-hidden purpose.
The infamous Mannlicher-Carcano rifle
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