Kennedy Assassination Question

[Hobbes]

JFK was assassinated 49 years ago today.
I was 10 yrs old at the time but I still remember it vividly.

I'm not really much of a conspiracy enthusiast or promoter but I really have some questions and doubts about the JFK death.
I'll pick one issue that I think people on this forum are more knowledgeable about than most of the public.

The official theory is that Oswald smuggled a rifle, wrapped in paper and supposed to be curtain rods, into the book depository that morning and used that rifle to shoot JFK with.
After the shooting, as the official story goes, Oswald returned to his boarding room to retrieve his snubnose .38 revolver that was used to shoot officer Tippit on the way to the movie theater where Oswald was arrested.

My question is this:
Does it seem reasonable that a man, intent on murdering the POTUS, would sneak a rifle into his lair and yet leave his handgun at home?
Seriously? He has to go back home and get his handgun after he has just smuggled a rifle into the book depository and used it to murder someone?
He couldn't have just put the snubnose in his lunchbox?

 

[ignerntbend]

I'm pretty sure he lived in a rented house with what's her name, rather than a bording house. I thought he already had the pistol on him.

Nobody knows what happened because there's too much evidence and too much testimony.
Don DeLillo said that the Warren report was the novel James Joyce would have written if he'd moved to Topeka and lived to be a hundred.

 

[HMFIC]

Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot.

 

[ignerntbend]

Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot.

Entirely possible

 

[Hobbes]

I'm pretty sure he lived in a rented house with what's her name, rather than a bording house. I thought he already had the pistol on him.

Nobody knows what happened because there's too much evidence and too much testimony.
Don DeLillo said that the Warren report was the novel James Joyce would have written if he'd moved to Topeka and lived to be a hundred.

At the time he had split up with Marina and was renting a room.

He took a taxicab to his rooming house, at 1026 North Beckley Avenue, arriving at about 1:00 p.m. He entered through the front door and, according to his housekeeper Earlene Roberts, immediately went to his room, "walking pretty fast".[129] Roberts said that Oswald left "a very few minutes" later, zipping up a jacket he was not wearing when he had entered earlier, and that she last saw Oswald standing at the northbound Beckley Avenue bus stop in front of the house.

 

[10Seconds]

Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot.

Semper Fi!

 

[ignerntbend]

"one motivated Marine with a rifle"

 

[Hobbes]

Semper Fi!

 

[Lurker66]

After reading about it, watching documentaries and reading the Warren report. I really think Oswald was involved with the CIA and I think the CIA was involved in a conspiracy to asassinate the President.

Someday we'll find out and we wont be shocked.

 

[Hobbes]

And this is my point:

Charles Whitman took an arsenal into the tower with him. Rifles, shotguns, handguns....

Oswald left his handgun at home and had to go back home and get it.