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the U.S. government that was afraid of starting World War III and then by the Soviet and Castro ‘apologists’ who felt they were saving detente and the peace process”. Either Lee faked his wife’s signature or someone else faked both Lee’s and Marina’s. The next day (or November 3), ‘Oswald’ visited a furniture-store that had still an old sign of a gun shop above its door. ‘Oswald’ informed about the gun shop, but was informed it was an outdated sign. Oswald had arrived in a two-tone blue and white 1957 Ford automobile, accompanied by his wife and two children. ‘Oswald’ was described as talking a foreign language to his wife, who was identified by Edith Whitworth and Gertrude Hunter, both managing the Furniture Mart, as Marina. Marina denied ever having gone over there. The women said Marina was wearing a pink coat; she did have such a coat. They also said Oswald said the baby was two weeks old; the exact age of Rachel, who was born on October 20, two days after Oswald’s twenty-fourth birthday. The women couldn’t remember what Oswald wanted, even though the FBI claimed Oswald wanted a part for a gun. The Report identified this ‘part’, without any evidence’, as a ‘firing pin’. According to author Joachim Joesten, the firing pin of the Mannlicher-Carcano WAS defective on November 22. Between November 4 and 8, Dial Ryder, an employee at Irving Sport Shop, the shop to which he was referred to, and Charles W. Greener, his employer, worked on a rifle, making two holes for a telescopic sight. The order was for one ‘Oswald’. The DPD received this ‘information’ from an anonymous tip on November 24. Ryder denied making this phone call; perhaps ‘Oswald’ made the call? The rifle was probably retrieved on either November 8 or 9. On November 9 or 10, ‘Oswald’ was seen at the Sports Drome Rifle Range, where he was shooting almost nothing but bull’s eyes. He talked to one Garland Slack who said Oswald had told him his neighbor (Buell Wesley Frazier) drove him to the Range. The following week, ‘Oswald’ shot at his neighbor’s. Garland G. Slack’s, target, with a 6.5 mm Italian carbine. On November 9, that same day, manager Hubert Morrow of the All Right Parking Systems at the Southland Hotel, had a job interview with Lee ‘Harvey’ Oswald, who also asked Morrow how high the Southland building was and whether it commanded a good view of Dallas. The real Oswald was with his family at Paine’s residence in Irving, apparently working on a letter to the Soviet Embassy, referring to the usage of his ‘real name’ and his ‘visit’ in Mexico City and his meeting with one ‘Kostin’. The Warren Commission claimed Oswald arrived on November 8, hiking a ride with his colleague and neighbor Buell Frazier, but Marina said Oswald arrived at 9h00 on November 9. Who drove him? On November 16, Dr. Homer Wood and his thirteen year old son identified Oswald as the man next to their booth at the Sports Drome Range. His son, Sterling, identified the rifle as a 6.5mm Italian rifle with a four-power scope and it emitted a “ball of fire” when it was fired. Wood’s son said the man left with a “man in a newer model car”. This ‘Oswald’ was also seen at the Range on November 20 and 21, at times Oswald was at work. William Ray Fuller says he saw a man who resembled Oswald sighting in a rifle on a makeshift range near Irving, a day or two before the assassination. ‘Oswald’ was accompanied by “a young boy in his late teens” (Frazier?). Between November 12 and 21, Oswald didn’t visit his wife in Irving. Two days before the assassination, Wayne January, manager at the RedBird Airport, said two men and one woman asked whether they could rent an airplane for November 22 for going to