There is the Backyard photo of Oswald holding an MC rifle that looks similar to the one that was lifted by Lt. Day in Tom Aleyas film footage.
There is a mail order receipt for an MC rifle from Kleins that has the name Alex Hidell written in some kind of letter style that some hand writing experts claim Is Oswald’s handwriting.
There is a P.O.Box addressed to Oswald with a secondary name Alex Hidell whom also could receive mail at that same address.
That’s about all the evidence there is to link Oswald to the MC rifle Lt. Day held up for the cameras.
But is that enough to really claim that Oswald actually owned that rifle or had possession of that rifle on 11/23/63?
Could not someone else have ordered the rifle, filled out an order form copying Oswald’s crude lettering, and opened a P.O.box using a fake Oswald ID and listing Alex Hidell as a secondary?
After all , there’s no mail clerk who ever came forward to Recount seeing an Oswald or someone representing themselves as Oswald, or having seen a long narrow box or seen whom picked up a long box at the post office.
So somebody else could have ordered the rifle and picked it up and gave it to Oswald with instruction to have himself photographed with it in hand.
Then the rifle could have been stolen from Oswald sometime later, wherever he kept it, whether at the Paines garage or at his boarding room.
An MC rifle could have been pre planted on 6th floor inside a wooden pallet stacked with boxes ( Walt Cakebread theory) on the early AM hour of 11/23/63, by a gunman who entered the unsecured TSBD. He hid on the 7th floor until about 12:10 pm when he came down to the 6th floor with his semi auto folding stock rifle w/center mounted scope , and he was momentarily near the SW 6th floor window spotted by Arnold Rowland. He had to retreat because of seeing Bonnie Ray Williams, but the gunman returned after BRW left the floor about 12:24, and the gunman placed a box on the SE window ledge just before 12:25 when it was captured in the Bronson film.
