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

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## European Powers MARTIN GILBERT

of Morton College, Oxford

and Professor of Sociology

elsewhere. There is a report that Oswald bought ammunition in Fort Worth on November 2 (24:704), but Oswald was in Irving that day. So this may have been another appearance of second Oswald. But there is no data whatever that Oswald ever had any rifle ammunition (the shell fired at General Walker was unidentifiable).

Further, there were no fingerprints on the surface of the rifle, on the shells, or on the remaining bullet in Oswald's rifle. The famous palm print was old, and on a part of the rifle only exposed when disassembled? According to the Commission, this rifle had to be assembled that day, loaded with four bullets, fired rapidly, and hidden, without any fingerprints appearing on it. If they were wiped away by Oswald, when, and with what? According to the Commission's time schedule, he had barely enough time to hide the gun and get downstairs. If he loaded and fired while wearing gloves, where are the gloves? Second Oswald solves these problems. He could have wiped everything or worn gloves, since we have no inventory of his effects, and he had ample time. The palm print shows that Oswald at some time handled the rifle. Nothing shows who handled it on November 22, 1963, the most interesting day in the rifle's career.

Another point of some interest is the connection between the ballistics evidence and Oswald's rifle. The shells had been in Oswald's gun. Bullet No. 399 (the one found in Parkland Hospital) had been in Oswald's gun. The mashed fragments (Commission Exhibits 567 and 569, 17:256:57) don't match up well with comparison bullets in our

joined the throng looking for an assassin or he, plus gun, got into the trunk of a car. Cars were moving out of the parking lot very soon after the shooting. Unfortunately, for simplicity's sake, this requires two additional accomplices, one a shooter and one a driver. But it provides an easy way for someone to disappear from the scene right after the firing.

Some corroboration of this possibility recently appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer of June 27, 1966, in an interview with Mr. S.M. Holland, who had previously reported seeing smoke rise from the knoll area at the time of the shooting:

Backed up against the [picket] fence, says Holland, were a station wagon and a sedan. The ground was muddy and . . . there were two muddy marks on the bumper of the station wagon, as if someone had

cab. He insisted on riding in front with the driver (so he could be seen, perhaps), got off a few blocks from his rooming house, and walked there (another indication of his lack of haste). He rushed into the house, went into his room; and emerged a few minutes later.

Mrs. Farlene Roberts, the housekeeper, reported two interesting facts: one, that while Oswald was in his room (around 1 p.m.), a police car pulled up in front of the house and honked, waited a bit, and then drove off; the other that when Oswald left, he stood by the bus stop in front of the house (the bus that stopped there went back to downtown Dallas) for "several minutes" (22:160 and 26:165). Oswald claimed he went to his room to change clothes and to get his revolver. (One of the many oddities of that amazing day is that when Oswald was arrested