Oswald did not have serious training or accuracy in rifle shooting. A test is given by the military to determine whether or not a soldier has ample skills in the firing of a weapon. When speaking about Oswald, Fetzer found that "Although he qualified with a 212/250 in 1957, he seems to have failed to qualify in 1958 and barely qualified in 191/250 in 1959 His training was with an M-1, which is semi-automatic, rather than a single-shot, bolt-action weapon, such as the Mannlicher-Carcano. Oswald was not trained to use a telescopic sight, to shoot at moving targets, or to fire from tall buildings" (Fetzer 363). In fact, one of Oswald's fellow soldiers while he was enlisted in the US Marines, Sherman Cooley, stated that, "If I had to pick one man in the whole United States to shoot me, I'd pick Oswald. I saw that man shoot and there's no way he could have ever learned to shoot well enough to do what they accused him of. I'm one of the best shots around, and I couldn't have done it." .
There were three known attempts on taking JFK's life in the fall of 1963. In late October, Thomas Arthur Vallee was arrested by the secret service in Chicago days before a scheduled visit by Kennedy. Vallee was discovered to have an M-1 rifle, a handgun, and three thousand rounds of ammunition. Days later, the Secret Service received another threat: Kennedy would be ambushed in Chicago by a Cuban hit squad. The Chicago trip was cancelled without explanation.
On November 18, four days before the assassination in Dallas, Joseph Milteer outlined the details for the upcoming Texas assassination attempt to a police informant. None of these threats were forwarded to authorities in Dallas (Belzer 10). "The amount of activity and suspicious incidents in Dallas on November 22, 1963 is astounding. The evidence in the third and final attempt on President Kennedy's life in Dealey Plaza provides a reason to believe that U.