Oswald's Rifle Capability

[Tim Nickerson]

You said "Oswald had a feel for the bolt action".  How do you know this?

Mr. RANKIN. You have described your husband's practicing on the hack porch at New Orleans with the telescopic scope and the rifle, saying he did that very regularly there.
Did you ever see him working the bolt, that action that opens the rifle, where you can put a shell in and push it back- during those times?
Mrs. OSWALD. I did not see it, because it was dark, and I would be in the room at that time.
But I did hear the noise from it from time to time not often.

[John Iacoletti]

Mr. RANKIN. You have described your husband's practicing on the hack porch at New Orleans with the telescopic scope and the rifle, saying he did that very regularly there.
Did you ever see him working the bolt, that action that opens the rifle, where you can put a shell in and push it back- during those times?
Mrs. OSWALD. I did not see it, because it was dark, and I would be in the room at that time.
But I did hear the noise from it from time to time not often.

If she never saw it, how did she know that?s what the noise was?

[Walt Cakebread]

Mr. RANKIN. You have described your husband's practicing on the hack porch at New Orleans with the telescopic scope and the rifle, saying he did that very regularly there.
Did you ever see him working the bolt, that action that opens the rifle, where you can put a shell in and push it back- during those times?
Mrs. OSWALD. I did not see it, because it was dark, and I would be in the room at that time.
But I did hear the noise from it from time to time not often.

So Marina didn't actually SEE Lee operating the bolt of a rifle....She heard a noise that she ASSUMED was the noise of the bolt being operated....And It might well have been true ...The noise could have been the noise of the bolt being operated...BUT... Since it was dark and she couldn't see ....she would have no idea WHERE Lee was holding the rifle when he opened and closed the bolt.....He could well have had the rifle on his lap at the time.....So he was NOT NOT practice firing the rifle Because he sure as hell couldn't see the sights in the dark....

[Jerry Freeman]

Challenge what I said

OK...take all you know about this stuff and put it in a thimble...and it would roll around like a BB in a battleship.

[Ross Lidell]

How embarrassing !

Especially embarrassing to those who think of themselves as infallible, superior, intellectuals who could never be duped....  But as some wise man observed a long time ago.... The more conceited and arrogant the man, the easier to it is to dupe him.     

Been duped lately ever Walt?

[Bill Chapman]

OK...take all you know about this stuff and put it in a thimble...and it would roll around like a BB in a battleship.

So you can't challenge me, like usual. Got it.

[Bill Chapman]

You said "Oswald had a feel for the bolt action".  How do you know this?

Feel, as compared to any test shooters using Oswald's Carcano
Two reasons:

1) Practice
2) See above

[John Iacoletti]

Feel, as compared to any test shooters using Oswald's Carcano
Two reasons:

1) Practice
2) See above

And your evidence that he practiced working the bolt on a Carcano is what? That Marina heard a noise from the porch?