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Oswald Purchases Rifle

Ruth Paine makes a notation on her calender – 23 October LHO purchase of rifle. [ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 293.] In March 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, alias “A. Hidell” ["Alex J. Hidell", an alias invented by Oswald], purchased a 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle (also improperly called Mannlicher-Carcano) by mail order. [Warren Commission Report, [...]

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Oswald Rents P.O. Box in Dallas

Oswald rented post office box number 2915 in Dallas, Texas. The three names authorized to receive mail at the PO box were Oswald, his wife Marina, and “Alex J. Hidell”, an alias invented by Oswald, which he would later use for his one-man branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans.

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