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Oswald left his wedding ring behind
Almost nothing left
By that fall, Oswald had almost nothing. His wife and children had moved out, he lived in a rented room, and the one thing he owned was wrapped in a blanket in the Paines' garage in Irving, where Michael Paine took it for camping gear. Only on weekends did he come out to the house.
The night before
On the evening of Thursday, November 21, he came out a day early. Marina was surprised, and not pleased. He played with his daughters outside until dark, and then three times that night, he begged her to move back to Dallas. She said no three times.
He went to bed angry. In the morning he asked Marina for a kiss, and she turned away. He had never taken the ring off in two and a half years of marriage, and he left no note.
The package
He walked into work carrying a long paper package. A coworker asked what was inside, and Oswald told him it was curtain rods.
Why did the length of the package matter?
The Warren Commission found a handmade paper bag on the sixth floor of the depository, near the window where the shots were said to have come from. The bag measured 38 inches long. Oswald's coworker Buell Wesley Frazier, who drove him to work, estimated the package he carried at about 27 inches. The Commission found that the rifle, disassembled, measured roughly 35 inches.
How did Oswald get to the depository?
Oswald rode to work that morning with Buell Wesley Frazier, a neighbor of the Paines who also worked at the depository. Frazier's sister, Linnie Mae Randle, lived nearby, and her mention of an opening at the depository had reached Ruth Paine weeks earlier. Frazier later testified that Oswald placed the package on the back seat of his car.
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