Mrs. OSWALD. I don't know where he practiced. I just think that the bus
goes to, went to Love Field.
Mr. RANKIN. Her testimony before was that the bus that he took, that
she knows about when he went, was a bus that went to Love Field, and
she thought he went to some place in that area to do his practicing.
Mr. McKENZIE. The reason I ask the question, Mr. Rankin, is because
I don't believe there is any practice area at Love Field for rifle
practicing.
Mr. RANKIN. Well, the investigation that the Commission has made shows
that there is a place near Love Field where people do shooting and
practicing.
Mr. McKENZIE. Not at Love Field.
Mr. RANKIN. It is right adjacent, in the neighborhood.
Mrs. OSWALD. Once we went out with Kathy Ford with the children to
watch airplanes landing and these airplanes made a tremendous noise
and for that reason I thought that maybe my husband was practicing
somewhere in that area because you couldn't hear the sound of shots.
I don't know if there is any place near there where one can practice
shooting, though. This idea just came to me a little while ago when we
were out there, watching the airplanes because it was a couple of weeks
ago that this happened. Just sort of a guess of mine.
Mr. DULLES. How did he pack the gun or conceal the gun when he went out
on the bus toward Love Field?
Mrs. OSWALD. Are you talking about the gun or the rifle?
Mr. DULLES. I am talking about the rifle.
Mrs. OSWALD. He used to wrap it up in his overcoat, raincoat.
Mr. RANKIN. So that the record will be clear on this, Mr. McKenzie, the
prior testimony did not purport to indicate that Mrs. Oswald thought
he was practicing right on Love Field where the airplanes were landing
or anything like that. It was that he took that bus and took the rifle
and came back with the rifle and that the bus went to Love Field and
the investigation has shown that there is at least one place in that
immediate neighborhood where there is gun practice carried on.
Mr. DULLES. Is there testimony, Mr. Rankin, as to more than one trip or
should we get that from the witness?
Mr. RANKIN. She testified right now she only knew of this one although
she knew of his cleaning his guns a number of times. She just testified
to that. Do you want more than that?
Mr. DULLES. I thought the record was a little fuzzy. Maybe you should
clarify it.
Mr. McKENZIE. I think you should ask the question.
Mr. RANKIN. Will you tell us, Mrs. Oswald, how you thought your husband
might have been practicing in the area near Love Field or how you
concluded that he might have been practicing with the rifle in the area
near Love Field.
Mrs. OSWALD. Only because that is the bus, only because that is where
the bus goes. He never told me where.
Mr. RANKIN. And you don't know whether he was practicing at a place
near Love Field or some place between where he got on the bus near your
home and Love Field; is that right?
Mrs. OSWALD. No; I don't know, even now I don't know where it is.
Senator COOPER. Can I just ask a question? Do you know how many times
he took the rifle from your home?