Dial Duwayne Ryder (June 12, 1938 – October 20, 2011) was an American

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, who gave evidence to the investigation of the death of President

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The Assassination of President John Kennedy

Ryder worked at the

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Sports Shop and stated that he possessed a record of

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's name. The

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, which investigated the

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, looked into a report that Oswald had a telescopic sight mounted and sighted at the store in which Ryder was employed. Ryder showed agents of the

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, on November 25, 1963, a tag which he claimed was in Oswald's handwriting. The undated tag, with the name ''OSWALD'', attested that three holes had been drilled into an unspecified kind of rifle. Further, a telescopic sight had been mounted on the rifle and boresighted. The customer paid $4.50 for drilling and $1.50 for boresighting the rifle.''Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy'', Joachen Joesten, the Merlin Press Ltd.,

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, 1964, 75. Neither Dial or his employer, Charles W. Greener, believed that they had worked on the gun.''President John F. Kennedy: Assassination Report of the Warren Commission'',

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Signed Edition, June 30, 2005, 221. Dial told author Leo Sauvage the rifle Oswald ordered from

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came equipped with a

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. He elaborated, saying that the rifle with the undated tag must have been another weapon than the one Oswald received by mail, in March 1963. Dial stated ''either it was another rifle or another Oswald.''''The Oswald Affair'', Leo Sauvage, World Publishing Company, 1966, 67. Ryder believed that a close inspection of the 6.5 mm Mannlicher Carcano owned by Oswald would reveal that neither he or his shop worked on the gun.

Personal life

Ryder was born in

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. In 1945, Ryder moved with his family to Irving, Texas and graduated from

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. He served in the Texas National Guard and the United States Army.Testimony of Dial Duwayne Ryder-Warren Commission
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ryder, Dial D. People associated with the assassination of John F. Kennedy People from Richland County, Illinois People from Irving, Texas Military personnel from Illinois Texas National Guard personnel Gunsmiths 1938 births 2011 deaths