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...about noon a Negro employee said to Oswald: "Let's go down and watch the President go by." Oswald declined...
...another box. Beneath the outside window, he had placed three boxes that served as a rifle rest. From that he had been able to track the slow-moving presidential car until it got past him, then got off three shots in about five seconds. After he fired, Oswald ran toward the center of the building and down an aisle to a stair well door. There, behind a few boxes of books, he thrust his carbine. He then hurried down the steps - and perhaps because he heard the oncoming foot steps of the motorcycle cop and Superintendent Truly - he ducked quickly...
Though he never got his day in court, and though he denied any guilt, there could be little doubt of Oswald's guilt. FBI agents checked the gun and its serial number, traced it to the Chicago mail-order house and found the order slip. It was a 6.5-mm., Carcano, bolt-action surplus Italian military carbine. It had been sent to an "A. Hidell" at a post-office box in Dallas. That name and box number were found later among Oswald's effects. Serial number records showed that Oswald's was the same rifle that...
...Motive? But why had he done it? Perhaps it was merely the power of suggestion. Throughout his whole lifetime, Lee Oswald was plainly a man of demonic frustrations and fanaticisms. His idol seems to have been Fidel Castro. In recent broadcasts, Castro called Kennedy a demagogue, a cretin and a member of an oligarchic family. "We are prepared," he declared, "to fight" the U.S. American leaders "should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe." Maybe all Oswald wanted to be was a hero to his depraved hero...
...went into another office to watch television, then went back to his ad copy. Finally he returned to his club and wrote the word CLOSED across the front of his billboards outside. This was the only "classy" thing to do. "I couldn't forget that Communists had sent Oswald to kill our President," he said later. "I couldn't forget how Jackie had suffered, and that Caroline and John wouldn't have a daddy any more...