In order for Oswald to have assassinated JFK with a “6.5 mm Carcano model 91/38 carbine,”1. rifle, he would have first had to have fired the aforementioned rifle on the day of the assassination; Lee Harvey Oswald’s paraffin test showed no such evidence of him having fired a gun that day. At the time of Oswald’s questioning, W. E. Barnes of the Dallas Police Department subjected him to a paraffin test, where warm paraffin wax was applied to Oswald’s hands and right cheek and was allowed to cool as it extracted contaminants from his pores. If Oswald had been the shooter, traces of barium and antimony within his pores would have been present, however, while Oswald’s hands show high quantities of their traces, his cheek did not show any condemning
