Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Bringing Rifle Into Building

The Commission concluded Oswald carried the assassination rifle into the Depository on November 22, 1963, in a handmade brown paper bag. His coworker Buell Wesley Frazier provided him a ride to work as part of a long-standing, innocent arrangement arranged through Frazier’s sister (the same neighbor who suggested Oswald apply to the Depository). Oswald’s claim that he visited Irving on November 21 to retrieve curtain rods for a Dallas apartment explained the large package he carried back to work the next morning. The bag was constructed from Depository shipping materials Oswald had access to, and there is no evidence he received assistance bringing the rifle into the building beyond Frazier’s innocent ride.

Accomplices at the Scene of the Assassination

The Commission investigated whether Oswald needed help arranging cartons at the sixth-floor window where he fired the shots. Most cartons in the area were already stacked by floor-laying crews to clear space for new flooring, with no organized arrangement. The four boxes at the shooting position (two 55-pound cartons, two 8-pound “Rolling Readers” block aids) could have been positioned by one person quickly: the 55-pound cartons had already been moved by the floor crew, and the lighter Rolling Readers were only moved 40 feet from their original positions. There is no evidence Oswald received assistance setting up the shooting position at the scene.

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CHAPTER VI examines the possibility of accomplices in the assassination of President Kennedy. The Commission analyzes fingerprints on sixth-floor cartons, the presence of Depository employees and outside witnesses near the sixth floor, the testimony of Arnold Rowland and Roger Craig regarding a possible second person at the window, the Commission’s investigation of all building employees, Oswald’s escape route, and his background including his 1959–1962 residence in the Soviet Union. Finding no credible evidence of accomplices either at the scene or in Oswald’s flight, the Commission concludes that Oswald acted alone and turns to a detailed examination of his life for traces of conspiracy.