Newspaper clipping of an article titled "U.S. Jury Sets Value of Zero on Oswald Rifle" from The Dallas Morning News dated February 25, 1969. The article describes how oilman John King lost his bid to be paid for his ownership claims on Lee Harvey Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle after a federal jury ruled that Oswald had abandoned the rifle and that King therefore could not have purchased the rifle from Marina Oswald. The suit was filed by King against the U.S. Government after Congress passed a law stating that Oswald's guns were part of the National Archives.The text of the article reads as follows:The Dallas Morning NewsTuesday, February 25, 1969U.S. Jury Sets Value Of Zero on Oswald RifleDenver (AP) - Oilman John King lost his bid Monday to be paid for the rifle used to assassi-nate President Kennedy.A federal court jury ruled Lee Harvey Oswald abandoned the rifle after the Dallas shooting and therefore King could not have purchased it from Os-wald's widow.The jury, in a verdict reached Friday and opened Monday, set the value of the Italian mail-or-der rifle at zero.The panel of three women and nine men awarded King $350 for the .38-caliber pistol used to kill Dallas patrolman J. D. Tippit following the Kennedy slaying.King had paid Mrs. Marina Oswald $10,000 for the weapons and the right to exhibit them, and Mrs. Oswald was to get an-other $35,000 once King actually got possession of the weapons.After the contract was signed, Congress passed a law making the guns part of the national archives and specifying owners of the property would receive "just compensation."King filed suit, seeking $5 mil-lion for the two guns. He testi-fied during the trial last week that as a gun collector, he valued the rifle at $450,000, al-though Oswald paid $21.45 for it.The government contended Oswald abandoned the rifle and therefore Mrs. Oswald had no claim on it or authority to sell it. The jury upheld this view.The award for the pistol was not connected with the abandon-ment question, since that gun was taken from Oswald when he was arrested. He had paid $29.95 for it.