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, p. 118-119.] [...]