Oswald’s Seaport Trader Order Coupon Mystery Solved

[Michael Walton]

Uh...big deal? Here's a guy with two kids, he's reminding his wife while in custody to buy his daughter some shoes, and he goes out and spends the equivalent of $250 in today's dollars to buy this gun? When he's making a buck-90 at his job? Uh huh.

And it's so funny how Emmy-award-winning Myers says something like this - with a straight face - in his article:

"The twists and turns in Simondet’s efforts read like a pulp-novel themselves and, in this authors eyes, show just how important diligence and perseverance are in solving any cold case mystery..."

...yet, pulled off an outrageously shameful animation depicting the assassination to hoodwink a national TV audience:

http://www.patspeer.com/chapter12c:animania

[Tim Nickerson]

Uh...big deal? Here's a guy with two kids, he's reminding his wife while in custody to buy his daughter some shoes, and he goes out and spends the equivalent of $250 in today's dollars to buy this gun? When he's making a buck-90 at his job? Uh huh.

Oswald spent the equivalent of $169 in todays dollars, not $250.

[Bill Chapman]

$159.20
https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1963?amount=19

[Michael Walton]

The ad and coupon showed it cost $29.95 which is about $250 to use your page.

[Gerry Down]

If the pistol cost $30, and he was making about $50 a week (actually probably slightly more than this), than the pistol was not that extravagant a purchase at all.

Oswald made $43 in his last week at the TSBD and only worked 4 days:
https://www.tmz.com/2020/01/27/lee-harvey-oswald-last-paycheck-uncashed-death-auction/

[Tim Nickerson]

The ad and coupon showed it cost $29.95 which is about $250 to use your page.

Sorry, I was thinking of the $20 that he spent on his rifle. You are correct.

You're wrong about Dale Myers though.

[Jerry Freeman]

Didn't solve everything for me. According to the timeline---Oswald picked up the weapons.... both on the same day the month before the issue containing the [revolver] ad was even circulated. How did that happen?

Fig.8 - Page 13 of the April 1963 issue (Vol.32, No.3) of True Adventures magazine.

January 28, 1962: LHO orders a .38 caliber Smith and Wesson revolver by mail.
March 12, 1963: Ruth Paine visits Marina at the new apartment. Also that day, LHO orders a rifle from Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago.
March 20, 1963: The rifle and the revolver are shipped.
March 25, 1963: LHO picks up the weapons.

 
The January '62 date appears to be a bogus date that has never been corrected.
The date on the ad is illegible...though A J Hidell appears to be 28 yo.
Looks like a bunch of fabricated crap to me.