Articles-The Second Oswald: the Case for a Conspiracy Theory

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into the building, and Mr. Truly, the manager of the Book Depository, was playing with one of them, aming it out a window (7:380-82). None of the employees mentioned this in their testimony, and it only came to the attention of the Commission because of a report that Oswald had mentioned it in one of his interrogation sessions. The other employees just had not noticed. (In Dallas, guns are so common that on any day except the 22nd of November one could probably have carried one anywhere.)

Oswald makes the bag that was later found. As we have seen, the only witnesses who saw the original bag were both adamant and cogent in insisting that it was not large enough to have held the gun; and the only witness who saw Oswald enter the building denied he carried a bag at all. By making a larger bag, Oswald creates an important, if confusing, clue. It connects him with the crime, helps to make him the prime suspect. At some time Oswald and second Oswald move several boxes to the sixth-

ever checked to see if Oswald's time had been used that day, and no one reported the smell of gunpowder on the sixth floor. The three shells found near the window are old in that the gun reported they had markings indicating they had been loaded twice, and possibly loaded once in another gun (26:449). (Weisberg has some very interesting and intriguing discussions about this, about the boxes and the conflicting information about their arrangement, and about the positions from which the shooting could have been done from the Book Depository window, all indicating that the event could not have taken place as surmised by the Warren Commission.) Also, some of those who saw a second Oswald at the shooting range, reported that he collected the ejected shells after they flew out, and put them away. (The rat accumulated all the 6.5 shells they could find in the Dallas area, and none was from Oswald's gun [26:600].) Certainly, if the marksman wanted to avoid detection, he would have collected the shells. If he had wanted Oswald's gun implicated, he would have left them where they fell.

It is an interesting point that no evidence ever turned up about anyone, anywhere, selling Oswald ammunition. The very few in Dallas who handled these shells had not, to their knowledge, dealt with him (26:62-64). The rifle was not sold to him with any ammunition. And, as Weisberg stresses, no rifle shells were found in his possession, or in his effects. If second Oswald did the shooting, he could have had additional shells. A confederate could have bought them in Dallas or

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