maybe Oswald had the rifle disassembled and that is why Michael Paine felt what he thought were TWO tent poles?
that is possibly true, but I find it incredible that Mr.Paine moving a strangers duffel bag from his wife's car into his own house garage and feeling something solid like metal poles would not take a look see., but maybe the bag had a lock on it and so Mr Paine was unable to inspect the contents of the bag
Zeon, have you listened to RP on the video? I'm not sure at what point on the vid she says that she visited the Oswald's on Saturday April 24 ( about two weeks after the Walker incident) She found Lee packed and ready to catch a cab to the bus depot to go to New Orleans. She said that "they" ( The police) were still looking for whoever tried to kill Walker.... HOW I repeat HOW could she have known that???....
I think I know.... Recall that George De Morhenschildt had visited the Oswald during the wee hours of the morning of Sunday April 15. I believe that the primary reason for that visit was because George wanted the rifle ( the carcano) that he'd had Lee order from Kleins to be used as a "throw down" gun near Walker's house after the shot through the window. De M wanted his property ( the carcano) before getting outta Dodge. ( He was preparing to leave Dallas to avoid a possible "attempted murder charge because of the plot that he and Lee had cooked up to make it look like Lee had attempted to murder General Walker.) George De M had told Mrs Volshiin a Russian woman who he knew was an FBI informant, was living in Dallas, that Lee Oswald was the scoundrel who had taken the pot shot at General Walker. De M knew that it wouldn't be long before the FBI started tracking them down, and he wanted to be out of the country .
At any rate .....The POINT is:..... Ruth Paine was active in keeping tabs on the White Russians living in Dallas. My guess is Mrs Volshinin told her that Lee was the scoundrel who had shot at Walker ...Thus Ruth Paine who admitted that she spied on the Oswald's and reported her observations to the FBI, decided to pay the Oswald's a visit....And that's when she found them packed and ready to leave town.