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One in particular, Howard Brennon, saw a man fire the fatal shot. His description of the killer was the one that went out on the police radio just 15 minutes after the killing.

That description led to his arrest in the movie theatre after he killed Kennedy and then gunned down Officer Tippit.

The Mannlicher-Carcano was Oswald's. He ordered the rifle, signed for it using the alias that he commonly used, posed for a camera with it, practiced in the Trinity River bottoms with it and left it at his workplace. The three fired cartridge cases came from the rifle to the exclusion of all others. Owald's handprint was on the wrapping paper and his palm print was on the barrel. No curtain rods were found anywhere in the Depository.

You don't think he tried to wipe the rifle down before he stashed it?
How else do you think the investigators were able to compare a palm print off a rifle? Are your palm prints on file somewhere?

" One in particular, Howard Brennon, saw a man fire the fatal shot. His description of the killer was the one that went out on the police radio just 15 minutes after the killing."

The person who described seeing the shooter could not identify Oswald later on as the man he saw in the window(If memory serves me right).

"That description led to his arrest in the movie theatre after he killed Kennedy and then gunned down Officer Tippit."

Doesn't it bother anyone that the police would descend on a Theater that someone has snuck into while the entire city is trying to find the alleged assassin of the President?

Yes, the Mannlicher Carcano was his rifle. Nobody here has disputed that as far as I can see. The dispute comes as to his skill with A rifle. Any rifle, pick one. The man couldn't DO the shooting. He did not have the SKILL.

At 100 yards an M14 can (In the hands of a good marksman) give you a 2 to 3 inch group. At the same distance a Mannlicher Carcano would be hard pressed to give you a 6 inch group. This loose grouping increases over time. Coupled with the fact that you are shooting at a moving target that is moving away from you AND at a lower elevation. If you are familiar with marksmanship, you will understand that shooting from a higher level to a lower level elevation (Or vice versa) increases the challenges of making the "1st shot". In this case the 3rd shot is the best one!! If the President had been sitting in a stationary position, at Oswald's level, at the distance he was at. I would give you that he could have hit the president at least once in 3 shots. That shot would have been the 1st one tho, not the 3rd. Especially not considering that you have 6.7 seconds to perform this feat of outstanding marskmanship.

Again. LHO didn't HAVE the skill to make the shots that killed the president.