[Ben Holmes]

"His wife to this day has *never* denied he owned that rifle." - Simply untrue. Her original assertions were that Oswald didn't own a rifle.

Quote:Mr. RANKIN. Did you ever see him clean the rifle?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes. I said before I had never seen it before. But I think you understand. I want to help you, and that is why there is no reason for concealing anything. I will not be charged with anything.

R. Anderson Wrote:The part Ben Holmes *doesn't* provide (*before* what he quotes above):

Quote:Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall the first time that you observed the rifle?
Mrs. OSWALD. That was on Neely Street. I think that was in February.
Mr. RANKIN. How did you learn about it? Did you see it some place in the apartment?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, Lee had a small room where he spent a great deal of time, where he read---where he kept his things, and that is where the rifle was.
Mr. RANKIN. Was it out in the room at that time, as distinguished from in a closet in the room?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, it was open, out in the open. At first I think---I saw some package up on the top shelf, and I think that that was the rifle. But I didn't know. And apparently later he assembled it and had it in the room.
Mr. RANKIN. When you saw the rifle assembled in the room, did it have the scope on it?
Mrs. OSWALD. No, it did not have a scope on it.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you have any discussion with your husband about the rifle when you first saw it?
Mrs. OSWALD. Of course I asked him, "What do you need a rifle for? What do we need that for?"
He said that it would come in handy some time for hunting. And this was not too surprising because in Russia, too, we had a rifle.

Whoops.

This is the sort of problem that believers have - they simply cannot read. The claim was made that Marina never denied that Oswald owned a rifle, yet in her testimony she refers to a past time when she was doing exactly this.

So a believer comes along, and references her later statements as if it refutes the fact that she had originally denied Oswald owned a rifle.

Amazing!