Klein’s Sporting Goods in Chicago received an order on 13 March 1963, on a coupon clipped from the February American Rifleman. It came with a $21.45 money order bought the day before: $19.95 for the rifle with a scope, plus $1.50 postage. Klein’s shipped rifle C2766 on 20 March to “A. Hidell” at Post Office Box 2915 in Dallas, which Oswald had rented. Experts found the handprinting on the order coupon was his. When arrested he carried a Selective Service notice and a Marine certificate of service in the name Alek James Hidell. [1][2]
The Dallas police lieutenant J. C. Day lifted a palm print from the underside of the barrel, a spot covered by the wooden stock when the rifle is assembled. The FBI’s expert found no identifiable prints on the rifle itself; the lift card reached the FBI on 29 November, and the FBI matched irregularities on the card to the barrel. Fibers caught in the butt plate most probably came from the shirt Oswald wore. [1]
His wife, Marina, took the photos of him holding a rifle in their back yard; see the backyard-photos file. [1]
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