Mug shot of the alleged assassin of JFK
Lee Harvey Oswald
The Self-Proclaimed Marxist
The Process to Assassination
Two days after arriving in the U.S, they flew to Forth Worth, Texas where Oswald found employment at the Leslie Welding Company. On January 27, 1963, Oswald ordered a 0.38 Smith and Wesson caliber from Seaport Traders, Incorporated, under the alias of A.J Hidell. Under the same alias, he ordered a high-powered rifle and scope from Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago, Illinois. He had his wife take a picture of him with these new firearms and two publications: the Militant and the Worker. On April 10, Oswald took his rifle to the house of Edwin Walker who was a retired U.S. Army Major General and a leader of the John Birch Society. He had made an assassination attempt on this general but the bullet had missed the mark. He returned to Dallas from New Orleans, where he had secured a job for only $1.50 an hour at a job with a coffee distributor. Back in Dallas, he secured employment at the Texas School Book Depository. On November 22, Oswald went to work at the book depository after spending the night away from his apartment. In his hands he carried a long package wrapped in brown paper and he told friends that it contained curtain rods for his apartment. Investigators believe that Oswald's package contained his rifle, because no curtain rods were ever found in the depository or in Oswald's apartment. After the assassination, police uncovered a sniper's nest on the sixth floor of the book depository building. Further investigation uncovered Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle tucked between piles of books, also on the sixth floor. An eyewitness to the assassination, a person who later identified Oswald in a police lineup, placed Oswald in the sniper's nest on the sixth floor of the book depository during the time when the shots were fired. He returned to North Beckley Street, entered his residence, and emerged within minutes on the streets of Dallas in the midst of a high-profile search for the alleged assassin of JFK. When confronted by Officer J. D. Tippit, Oswald shot the policeman repeatedly at pointblank range in front of multiple witnesses. Oswald then forced his way into a movie theater, and was then arrested.