Oswald Did Not Enter the Texas School Book Depository Building with a Rifle or Anything on the 22nd
Special to the AARC
30 June, 2026
The Warren Commission faced the problem of how to show Oswald, on the morning of November 22, 1963, entered the Texas School Book Depository [TSBD] building with a rifle. If he did not enter with a rifle, then someone else brought it in and a conspiracy existed.
Oswald left his home on the morning of the 22nd carrying a 26-inch-long paper bag that he grasped by his palm and swung his arm, with the other end secured in his arm pit. The package was supposed to contain curtain rods to be used in his rooming house that had only sheets to cover the windows in his room.
The Warren Commission asserted that the paper bag, instead, carried the dismantled Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, whose longest component measured 34.8 inches, into the TSBD building. However, 100% of the evidence subverts this allegation. (1) The Dallas Police were able to identify that there was a paper bag containing curtain rods in a shed outside the TSBD building where employees were known to store personal belongings and their lunches in the days following the assassination. (2) Jack Edwin Dougherty saw Lee Harvey Oswald enter the TSBD and did not see him carrying a package. (3) Troy Eugene West controlled access to the paper dispenser and the gum-tape used to make paper sack that was alleged to be used to smuggle the rifle into the TSBD building. West attested that the gum tape would be wetted by the tape dispenser for application to the kraft paper that he used to prepare packages for shipment. Thus, the paper and the tape could not have been smuggled away for fabrication of a bag by Oswald surreptitiously.
Black Star photo of curtain rods being installed in Oswald’s room after November 22, 1963
Dallas Police Department Evidence records Box 12, Folder 53. Item 002
Testimony of Jack Edwin Dougherty, Warren Commission Hearings, Volume VI, Pp. 373-382
Testimony of Troy Eugene West, Warren Commission Hearings, Volume VI, Pp. 360-361
Roster Of Officials Who Based on Evidence, believe a Conspiracy Killed President John F. Kennedy
- Dallas Police Chief, Jesse E. Curry, and several police officers
- Dallas District Attorney, and others in his Office
- Members of the Texas Court of Inquiry: Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr, Leon Jaworski, and Judge Robert G. Story
- President Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Warren Commission members: Senator Richard B. Russell, Senator John Sherman Cooper and Representative Hale Boggs
- Director the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover
- S. Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy
Their beliefs were not published in the Warren Commission Report despite participation in its drafting or contributing to its investigation. Despite the volume of “uncovered” revelations of what the Warren Commission Report glossed over to achieve a “no conspiracy” conclusion, a majority of Americans remain skeptical of its conclusion.
They Also Serve: The Press, Electronic Media, and Special Interest Groups Support the Whitewash of the JFK Murder
One would normally think that in a national crisis, such as JFK’s Murder, with the possibility of a world-wide nuclear war that the press and electronic media would investigate the event. The event was covered by local media and a hand full of national reporters in town for the JFK’s visit.
Where were the major news media outlet investigative reporters that should have been digging into the story instead of superficial man-on-the street interviews before covering the Capitol procession, the funeral cortege and JFK’s internment at the burial site.
After the announcement of the formation of a federal investigation commission, the President of CBS wrote President Johnson to offer support his decision. In the years that followed, CBS would broadcast multiple television specials in support of the Warren Commission Report’s conclusions.
Between, announcement of the formation of the Warren Commission and the publication of its report, a single book “Who Killed Kennedy?“ by Thomas G. Buchanan, represented the only independent review of events in Dallas. The print, electronic media [television and radio] and special interest groups were quick to denounce the author.
A stellar instance of the media obeisance to the Warren Commission conclusions would come in 1964 when CBS News reported on the alleged assassination rifle having been aligned for a left-handed shooter as aiding Oswald, the alleged assassin, having “improved his aim.”
When the Warren Commission submitted its report of the assassination, book publishers were quick to publish the report’s conclusions [See the Associated Press’ “The Warren Report”] with its “no conspiracy” conclusion.
Why was “no conspiracy” dissent muffled? A newsman from St. Louis who was riding in the presidential motorcade reported contemporaneously to the Dallas police that he found two bullets in the grass in the vicinity of the viaduct. Evidence of additional shots that got lost in the thunderclap of applause for the Warren Commission’s conclusion of a lone gunman and no conspiracy.
Associated Press, The Warren Report
Buchanan, Thomas G., Who Killed Kennedy, 1964
CBS News Special: Warren Report, 9/27/64
CBS News Inquiry: The Warren Report, 6/25/67, 6/26/67, 6/27/67, 6/28/67
Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library
Hotsy-totsy Girls
In the Warren Report there appears a photo of night club exotic dancers which the Warren Commission published to show the public that Oswald, alone and unaided, killed President John F. Kennedy, the most powerful man on earth.
The Report as a Definitive Document
The Warren Report has 912 pages. If the non-relevant matter to the investigation is removed, only 90 pages relate to the murder and its investigation. The first chapter is a short summary. It appears to be the only pages read by many harried important Washington folk, who if memories and the histories and articles are a faithful guide, gathered in social affairs to talk knowingly about the assassination.
The Bank Meeting That Did Not Matter To The Warren Commission
About one week before JFK arrived in Dallas, a group gathered in the public meeting room of a Dallas bank. They held a vile meeting with hostile speakers and commentators on JFK whom they hated. With unalloyed passion, toward the close of the meeting, the political reactionaries shouted, stomped and yelled, “kill him!” Some of troglodytes had military experience.
There is a tape recording of the meeting and a roster of attendees.
Oswald’s Pubic Hairs
In the Warren Report is a photo of Oswald’s pubic hair, part of the matters assembled to solve JFK’s murder.
The hair, the reader is told, proves a blanket belonged to Oswald.
However, the blanket was found in Oswald’s possessions, his wife swore under oath it was his, the lady who drove Oswald’s possessions to Dallas stated it was in his possessions. Its relevance to the shooting of the president remains a historical mystery, but impresses many who read the Warren Report with the thoroughness of the investigation.
The Witness Who Botched a Warren Commission Gerrymander
In the Warren Report appears a photograph of the Texas School Book Depository building with a witness of Oswald in the window, sitting across the street on a small wall looking up. The purpose of this portion of the photograph was for him to identify in the photograph circle, with a black magic marker, a window where he alleged he saw 3 witnesses looking out.
The Warren Commission closed all windows on the depository except one they wanted him to select. He chose and circled a closed window above the gerrymander ones and with one that could not be opened.
The Foot Soldiers of the warren Commission – its supporters faithfully remain silent.
Dallas Lamentations
On two occasions responsible critic, Harold Weisberg interviewed the head of Dallas Police intelligence. The officer was clear each time.
He related that there 50 groups in the city and area who detested President John F. Kennedy and had the means and capability to kill him. These were of all racial groups, left and right leaning in their politics, and of various economic classes.
Interview With Harold Weisberg, Hood College
The Hidden Fascist’s Students
In the Warren Report appendices there are a series of numbered Warren Commission documents. When you come to Warren Commission Document 1316 (C)(4) The caption reads number assigned but not used.
In the Dallas Police archives, however, the document is found as well as in the records of the Warren Commission and in the files of Warren Commission critic, Harold Weisberg. The document dated Nov. 5, 1963 and authored by Dallas Police detective, Jack Revill, Lieutenant, and H. M. Hart, Detective, both of the Criminal Intelligence Section to Captain W. P. Gannaway, Special Service Bureau of the Dallas Police Department. It states:
A group of students from NORTH TEXAS UNIVERSITY is planning to take part in demonstrations during the proposed visit to DALLAS of President KENNEDY the 21-22, of November. This group of students belong to the YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB of NORTH TEXAS UNIVERSITY. Some of these students have recently visited in the home of GENERAL EDWIN A. WALKER here in DALLAS and later attended the U.S. DAY rally at the DALLAS MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM sponsored by GENERAL WALKER. This group is highly sympathetic with WALKER and are going to support his group. Those visiting in WALKER’S home were WILLIAM DREW FITZ, WILLIAM IVAN SNODGRASS, MICHAEL RAY BOWLIN and RONNIE BEALL.
After returning to DENTON from DALLAS, WILIAM DREW FRITZ stated that plans were being made for the coming visit of the President. FITZ stated, quote “We will drag his dick in the dirt,” end of quote. Fitz emphasized that his group would have well planned demonstrations during the President’s visit to DALLAS.
There is no evidence of a relation to the events on November 22nd. There is no record of the Warren Commission ever investigating the Young Republican Club either.
Warren Commission Document 1316 (C)(4)
Hood College, Harold Weisberg Archive, Harold Weisberg Folder: “The Dick Rubbers”
Curtain Rods In Plain Sight
When workers came to work in the Texas School Book Depository building, they would pass by a small wooden shed in which they shelved lunches and personal items. Long after the police searched the building for shooters and evidence, this shed was found to have a paper bag with a pair of curtain rods consistent with Lee Harvey Oswald’s assertion that he visited Mrs. Paine’s home to visit his wife and to pick up some curtain rods the night of November 21, 1964. When Oswald met his ride to work the following morning, he indicated he would be taking curtain rods back to his rooming house room where he had sheets for curtains.
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Dallas Police Department Files Box 15, Folder 53, Item 02
Wrone, David R., The Zapruder Film
One Became Two
The Mannlicher-Carcano found on the sixth floor of the Texas School which is alleged to be Oswald’s was of cheap manufacture and had misaligned sight.
To test this rifle, authorities had to use shims to corrected significant weaknesses as well as to realign the sight for a right-handed shooter [Oswald was right-handed] as the scope was aligned for a left-handed shooter. The modification of the alleged assassination rifle constitutes transforming the rifle into a different rifle configuration or a different rifle.
Some Other Shots
The Warren Report stands or falls on only three shots being fired that day In Dallas and by an impoverished book handler, Oswald. However, there exists evidence of other shots having been fired, a few I give here.
Rachley Bullet Strikes reported seen.
Virgie Rachley stood on the north side of Elm Street. A few feet east of the Texas School Book Depository, she related that she had seen a bullet pass over the limousine and strike the pavement behind it. The Warren Commission attorney who questioned her, showed her a picture that she could not identify in any meaningful way to give important information.
See Harold Weisberg’s Whitewash II for discussion.
Royce Skelton and Austin Miller, two railroad workers, stood on the viaduct to watch the motorcade come down Elm Street and pass beneath them. Skelton reported he saw a bullet hit the pavement to the front left of the limousine and kicked up debris. In a preliminary interview in Dallas where a Warren Commission lawyer treated him as an isolate; the Commission decided not to hear his testimony in D.C. The Dallas Street folk had earlier paved the street and repositioned a road sign. Hampering full examination. [Warren Commission Hearings Vol. 6, Exhibit 2003.
Jim Tague
On the Main Street curb where Jim Tague stood, a bullet left a scar. After Oswald was dead and buried, the scar was patched. Cui Bono?
Found Bullets By Rex Oliver, a couple of years after November 22nd
Texas highway worker Rex Oliver, found a bullet slug near the Dealey Plaza viaduct. Federal officials concluded it did not fit the ballistic signature of the Oswald bullets. It was simply an errant artifact.
Roof Bullet
On a tall building due west and beyond the railroad tracks of Dealey Plaza, roofers found a bullet cartridge. Federal agents found the potential firing direction excluded it as Warren Commission evidence.
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Sylvia Meagher, “Other Bullets” Folder
Maggie Field, “Other Bullets” Folder
Harold Weisberg, Indexed Files
David R. Wrone, Indexed Folders
Bullet Scars on Dealey Plaza
The Manhole Cover
A bullet grazed the southeast corner of the concrete square surrounding a manhole cover and pierced the adjoining grassy turf to travel just below the surface for several feet leaving a raised furrow like a mole’s burrow.
Policemen Foster and Wayne E. Hartman reported seeing it. Secret Service photograph of the cover was regular and was determined to be of insufficient value. Later on, November 24th, Oswald in jail since November 22, Wayne E. and Edna Hartman returned to view the site and found the grass trampled down with the raised no longer visible.
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FBI HQ record 105-82555-4827, P. 63
In Oakes’ Foster video
Harold Weisberg, Whitewash II
Gene Aldridge Scar
On November 22, 1963, a bullet scar appeared on the north sidewalk of Elm Street. After it had not been investigated for some time, Aldredge reported it. Later with Oswald was dead and buried, he returned to view it only to find it patched. Who did this? Cui Bono?
- R. Carr
A steel worker, R. R. Carr, stood on the sixth floor of a building under construction near the southeast corner of Dealey Plaza. The World War II combat veteran reported he had seen a man on the seventh floor of the Texas School Book Depository building fire a rifle. His statement failed to muster enough merit for the Warren Commission to employ any investigative effort of significance.
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