Did Marina Say that She Saw Lee's Rifle the Day Before the Assassination?

[Denis Morissette]

Henry Wade claims that Marina Oswald said that she saw Lee's rifle the day or two days before November 22, 1963. One thing I did not know is that Marina did tell the SS on November 24, 1963 that she had seen the rifle two or three weeks before the assassination. From the SS interview tapes that I have:

1:13: When did you last see the rifle?
1:42. Marina: I saw the rifle 2 or 3 weeks ago

Knowing that JFK was to visit Dallas in a few weeks, is it possible that she connected the dots?

[Steve M. Galbraith]

In "Marina and Lee", Marina said that unlike previous major events in his life - the attempt on Walker, the visit to the US Embassy when he decided to return to the US, the decision to travel to Mexico City to defect - where Oswald showed nervousness beforehand ("convulsive anxiety attacks") that prior to the assassination she saw no similar signs of anxiety or tension. He seemed normal.

Priscilla Johnson concluded that this absence of anxiety or nervousness likely indicated that his decision was made at the last minute, that instead of retrieving the rifle on Wednesday or earlier or taking his revolver from his rooming house, that it was spontaneous, not planned much in advance. Marina saw no anxiety apparently because he hadn't decided to act until the last few days.

From this account it seems that his actions caught her by complete surprise; that is, she saw no dots to connect. On the other hand, she only saw him on weekends so maybe it was there but she didn't see it.

Passage from "Marina and Lee":

[Tom Graves]

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Bear in mind that there are reports that say Marina was a KGB "swallow" in St. Petersburg before she met Oswald, and that a KGB true defector, Major Pyotr Deriabin (1954), wrote a day or two after the assassination that she had to be at least a low-level KGB agent to be permitted to marry her Handsome Prince Charming and leave The Worker's Paradise with him.