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they haven't been able to duplicate those shots with an identical rifle from the school book depository yet

Yes they have with the very rifle Oswald used and with bullets from the same Mfg lot.

It was on the History channel and Discovery.

To prove it was no fluke they did it twice with ballistic gel dummies. For the first go round everything went off without a hitch, for the second go round, they used dummies with cadaver bones, the bullet went through a bone that it was supposed to graze and did not break the skin of the 'Governor's' leg for that reason but it struck just where it was supposed to.

After the experiments they took the dummies to two different coroners who claimed that it was physically impossible for the wounds to both 'victims' to be caused by a single shot (sound familiar). When they were shown the video of the simulations, they were completely floored by it.

Another myth was that Oswalds rifle was a poorly constructed, rarely accurate weapon. This was proved false, they had several of the rifles for testing and they outperformed many high end weapons in terms of accuracy, range, and power.

Just one more note;

The bullets' condition after the shots, (even the one that hit the rib bone), was virtually in the exact same condition as the so called "pristine" bullet recovered from Parkland Hospital.

Not only was Oswald's rifle not used but AS FOUND could not have been used. The scope was not even attached properly and had to be shimmed by the US Army Ordinance Laboratory before it could be sighted properly. FBI marksmen were afraid that it would explode in their faces also. Working the bolt also proved extremely difficult too difficult for that gun to have been used to fire so quickly.

The gun was a PoS imported into the country as scrap metal.