Witness says Oswald's package was too small to hold the rifle
Oswald said it held curtain rods, Frazier recalls; he says he measured that type of rifle and found it would not fit.
Who Killed JFK? · 11/22/63Frazier says the package Lee Harvey Oswald carried on the morning of Nov. 22, 1963, was too small to hold the rifle Oswald supposedly used. Nobody knows for sure what was in it.
Buell Frazier, then 19, often drove Oswald to work. That morning Oswald put a package "on the back seat on the passenger side," Frazier said. Oswald said it held curtain rods, which he had talked about the day before.
Interviewed in 2023, Frazier said his friend Josiah Thompson has the same type of Italian rifle Oswald allegedly used. They measured the stock and the barrel, Frazier said, and "There's no way that it would fit in the package that was on the back seat of my car."
That made him feel good, Frazier said, because many people had said he had not told the truth about the package. He said he had told all he knows.
Questions people ask
Who is Buell Frazier?
He was Oswald's 19-year-old co-worker at the Texas School Book Depository. He often gave Oswald a ride to work. He was interviewed about that morning in 2023, 60 years later.
What exactly did Frazier and Thompson measure?
Frazier said Thompson has the same type of Italian rifle Oswald allegedly used. Frazier said they measured the rifle, the stock and the barrel. He said there was no way it would fit in the package on his back seat, but that does not show what was in the package.
What did Frazier see happen with the package?
He said Oswald put it on the back seat before they drove off. When they reached the parking lot at work, Oswald took the package out and walked toward the building. Frazier said he later ran into him inside.