Mr. Vinson. There was one other thing that I noticed also. Maybe I am wrong and I should possibly go back and reread this before I make any statements but I notice in the picture there is a scope on the rifle, and it was my understanding that the rifle came to him without a scope, and he didn't buy a scope until the fall of 1963, and it says in the magazine this picture was made in the spring of 1963, apparently shortly after he bought the rifle. I think it says he bought it in March.
Mr. Liebeler. Where did you learn that the rifle did not have a scope on it when he bought it?
Mr. Vinson. I think this just was something that came out in my discussion with some other reporters, or just in casual conversation just—somebody just made the observation.
Mr. Liebeler. Have you seen a newspaper report to the effect that a telescopic sight was mounted on the rifle for somebody by the name of Oswald by the Irving Sports Shop?
Mr. Vinson. No. The only one I know about was the place in Grand Prairie, unless I got my facts all crossed up. I was thinking the only scope I knew about was mounted, I thought was mounted at the range out in Grand Prairie. Is that correct? Was there one mounted there?
Mr. Liebeler. Not as far as anybody else knows.
Mr. Vinson. Maybe I am confused. I guess I am confused about it, but I think there was something in this article that mentioned him having the scope mounted on his rifle at a specific time, which I thought was in the fall of '63.
Mr. Liebeler. There may well be something to that effect, but that doesn't necessarily make it so.
Mr. Vinson. I know.
Mr. Liebeler. But you have no direct knowledge, you haven't talked to anybody that ever mounted a scope or claimed to have mounted a scope for Oswald?