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Hey Red Blooded American, please let me know if you find out.

Also, I cut out an article published in the local newspaper in July 21, 1992, for future posterity since I'm somewhat of a conspiracy buff. Listed below is word-for-word the article:

OSWARD RECALLED AS WEAK, BAD SHOT

MOSCOW--A Russian who said he knew Lee Harvey Oswald in the former Soviet Union recalled the assassin of President John F. Kennedy as a man of weak character and a poor marksman, a magazine reported.

The Russian, identified as Pavel Golovachev made the comments in an interview to be printed in "Echo of the Planet," which is published by the ITAR-Tass news agency.

The interview discloses nothing about the assssination, but offers glimpses about Oswald's time in the former Soviet Union from the late 1950s until 1962.

Golovachev told the magazine he met Oswald in the Belarussian capital of Minsk while they worked in the same factory there.

"My attitude to Oswald was the same as if he were an extraterrestrial. It was interesting for me to know what this American was like," he was quoted as saying. Golovachev said he found Oswald to be "a weak man, not very bright or intellectual."

The magazine quoted him as saying that Oswald at one point bought a hunting gun and joined a Soviet hunters' club, but that he rarely attended training sessions and was a bad shot.

"He failed to hit the target even once," Golovachev told the magazine.

OSWARD RECALLED AS WEAK, BAD SHOT

Interesting post! Soon after the shooting, there was an article in one of the Men's magazines (Argosy, etc.) that captured my imagination.

The gist of it was that Oswald was trying to kill then governor Connally, and because he was a lousy shot, killed Kennedy instead.

The reason was that Oswald had a Dishonorable Discharge and couldn't get the GI bill or housing or any of the other vet bennies and that Connally repeatedly refused to upgrade the discharge.

By sheer chance, just before the shooting, I had mail-ordered one of those Carcano rifles from the same dealer and found the gun, even in good condition, was a POS. The scope was also crap - low light-gathering capability and resolution. The bolt handle was forward of the trigger, which made fast accurate shooting a chore for someone who was not a crack shot.

To this day, I believe Oswald was the only shooter. If there is any cover-up, I would say that it is that the Powers That Be prefer the public to think of Kennedy as a martyr rather than some poor schmuck who was killed by mistake. The irony boggles the mind.