Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle
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Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle was the firearm used in the assassination of John F. Kennedy on 22 November 1963. Although the United States government later established that it had belonged to Oswald, (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) accounts varied as to its origin. (PROSE: Untitled, Who Killed Kennedy)
The rifle was Italian-made. According to one account, it was Francis Cleary, a former UNIT soldier who had been brainwashed by the Master, who brought the weapon to 1963 through the use of a Time Ring. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) According to another account, it was given to Oswald by the Time Lord Renegade Berenyi, who had designed the assassination as well as Oswald's entire biography. (PROSE: Untitled)
In the account featuring Cleary, Oswald, an innocent employee of the Texas School Book Depository, found Cleary with the rifle and fought him for control of it. Eventually, Oswald staggered back in shock after ripping Cleary's shirt to reveal a Soviet uniform which allowed Cleary to swing the butt of the rifle through the air into Oswald's head, rendering him unconscious. James Stevens, a journalist who had arrived in 1963 to prevent the Master changing history, then chased after Cleary. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
