That is one of the dumbest conspiracy claims in a long while. Which is saying a great deal considering how low the bar has been set. How many folks have made a buck for writing a book claiming there was a conspiracy? Does that alone discredit the likes of Mark Lane and others? Marina confirmed from the very beginning that Oswald owned a rifle and stored it in the Paine's garage. When she was asked about a rifle by the police when they very first arrived at the Paine residence just a short while after the assassination, she directs them to the blanket. Nothing morphed in her WC testimony as you dishonestly suggest. She made numerous specific references to a rifle in her testimony. The irony is that the false ambiguity in her identification of the rifle that you stupidly cite referencing the "wooden stock" comes from her WC testimony. Her answers don't morph from the "wooden stock" answer to confirmation of a rifle because she had already confirmed to the WC, DPD, and others many times that Oswald owned a rifle before answering that specific question in her WC testimony. There was no progression or morphing in that regard.
Marina confirmed from the very beginning that Oswald owned a rifle and stored it in the Paine's garage. A rifle. Yes, that's how the story goes.... But as Ruth Paine did the translation, who knows for sure what she actually said.
In any event, she did not confirm Lee owned the MC rifle that was found at the TSBD. In fact, when she was shown the MC rifle on Friday evening she did not recognize it.
Nothing morphed in her WC testimony as you dishonestly suggest. She made numerous specific references to a rifle in her testimony. Of course it morphed from
a rifle to
the rifle.
Do you really think a scared young Russian woman with two small children and a dead husband accused of killing the President would, all by herself, come up with the idea that she, through inheritance was now the rightful owner of the rifle that was allegedly used to kill Kennedy and the revolver that was allegedly used to kill Tippit, and that she could sell them or at least her rights to them?
If the answer is yes, then Marina was a lot more shrewder than most people give her credit for.
If the answer is no, then there must have been somebody in the background putting this idea in her head.
So, let me give you the answer; On December 4, 1963, Dallas businessman John J. King, wrote a letter to Marina, who at that time was in protective custody, in which he asked her to contact him to discuss a business proposition that could benefit her thousands of dollars. The result was that in the months that followed several representatives for Marina (where did they come from?) negotiated with King until Marina herself got involved in July 1964. Untimately a deal was struck in December 1964.
In other words, in the months leading up to Marina's WC testimony this potential deal was being discussed in secret. But we are to believe that it did not potentially influence her testimony?
