Oswalds Curtain Rods
He told me they were curtain rods and i didn t.
Oswalds curtain rods. He said he was very familiar with the size and length of curtain rods and said oswald s package was too small to have carried a disassembled rifle. A brief guide to the jfk assassinationis the essentialjfk assassination book. Oswald claimed to wes frazier that he was taking curtain rods into the texas school book depository on the day kennedy was shot. Oswald did not discuss redecorating his room with his wife 1h68 9.
This document therefore becomes a major find. Either way it is unlikely that the bag contained a rifle. Lee harvey oswald photocopy 11 23 63. Oswald claimed to investigators that he had only carried his lunch.
According to buell frazier oswald claimed that the bag he was carrying contained curtain rods. Oswald did not ask mrs. But no curtain rods were ever found and the warren commission concluded that the package actually contained the rifle that killed kennedy. Numbers 1 through 8 above strongly suggest that lee harvey oswald s curtain rod story was a complete fabrication from the beginning used as a device with which to avoid suspicion when he carried his dismantled mannlicher carcano rifle into the depository building on the same morning of president kennedy s visit to dallas texas.
There were indeed curtain rods in the garage of the paine residence but both mr. No curtain rods were ever found in the depository and oswald s room in oak cliff already had curtains. 00002374 6 pages 08 02 003 1944 2374 001 gif 2374 002 gif 2374 003 gif 2374 004 gif 2374 005 gif 2374 006 gif end quote had these curtain rods come from the tsbd and had oswald s finger prints been found on them the government s case went out the window. Paine testified their curtain rods were still in their garage on the day of the assassination after oswald had taken his curtain rods to work 3h72 9h448.