Mr. Slack. That is all I said.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you have a chance to see the rifle that he had?
Mr. Slack. I absolutely saw the rifle.
Mr. Liebeler. What kind of rifle was it?
Mr. Slack. It was an Italian type rifle, but it never showed in the newspapers, a picture of that rifle.
In other words, if the first picture that came out of the officer holding the rifle, that was on the floor of the Book Depository, if that was the gun, I had never seen that gun before, and I know rifles and I know scopes.
Mr. Liebeler. What was the difference between it and the rifle you saw?
Mr. Slack. The one he had was a small three-quarters, about seven hundred fifty thousandths diameter tube, a small tube no bigger than your thumb, with the windage gage. They were practicing. It was a cheap scope. Well, $5.66 scope. But it was sporterized. You cut the wood off of them. Short barrel.
Mr. Liebeler. In other words, this rifle that Oswald had was a sporterized rifle? It had been rebuilt?
Mr. Slack. Just as advertised. I have seen besides the Oswald, I have friends that have those rifles. I wouldn't shoot a toad frog with one of them, because I know that they are just junk.