As a patsy, CT man-crush Dirty Harvey was only supposed to fire near Kennedy
No..... you've got it wrong, but you're close. The ruse that Lee believed he was playing was supposed to APPEAR as though Lee had fired at JFK. The three spent shells and the carcano rifle that was well hidden BENEATH the pallet of books were intended to be mute evidence that he had fired AT JFK before he fled the country. Lee knew that the carcano (linked to him by the BY photo) was well hidden, and he thought the rifle wouldn't be found until he was well on his way to Cuba.
"Well hidden BENEATH the pallet of books".
Here's the rifle in situ photographed by the Dallas Police Crime Lab. The boxes to the north (camera-top) are resting on the floor. Book stacks on pallets are to camera-right and camera-bottom.
Mr. BALL. That is a picture taken by you of the location of the gun -
that was before anyone moved it?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Do you have another shot of that other picture?
Mr. STUDEBAKER. No, we took two from the same location when
we was up on top of the stack of boxes shooting down at it, before
they picked it up. Actually, there was four negatives of them of the
gun, but they are all in the same location, shooting straight down
and they were taken on different exposures.