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I’ve heard the scope might have even been crooked or dodgey though on that rifle.

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From where he bought the rife:

“When they held the rifle up [on the news], I about fell through the floor,” Sharp recalls of the night of Nov. 22, 1963. “An $11 rifle?”

The rifle Oswald had reportedly chosen to use and bought under an alias was a cheap Italian model, Sharp said. The 6.5 mm Carcano, a military-grade rifle, was not expensive to make and therefore, very popular among consumers.

“It was a piece of junk,” Sharp said. Knowing that the warehouse on West Madison in Chicago sold much higher quality guns, Sharp was shocked at Oswald’s choice and at his success. “If you want good optics, you don’t buy them for three dollars [an estimate].”

http://newsarchive.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news-226036.html

It was also first reported that the rifle was a mauser:
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKweitzman.htm

I could be wrong but I think, the Dallas Police Department did a competent job in the investigation but I also think that a crime of this magnitude back in 1963 was overwhelming and that they were probably unprepared.

"The view of Kennedy through Oswald's rifle scope is thought to have looked like this. . ."

So the real conspiracy here is the peculiar relationship between JFK and Gov. Connally? I had no idea the governor had such a close companionship with Kennedy that he rode in the car on the man's lap. And this was WAY before Obama and Reggie...

To get that angle, Oswald would have had to be a monkey hanging by his tail off the ledge of the window.

BTW, the window shown by most of the internet sites is the wrong one because the museum has the correct window blocked off. I never put much into Oswald was a patsy theory until standing in the real window many years before it was blocked off. No way. He’d have had a better shot as the car was traveling down Houston St.