`  ::More stretch: 1. the Pushkin story on which the opera is based, ``Pikovaya Doma`` or ``Queen of Spades``, has as hero an ``engineer`` named Германн, or ``Germann`` with a hard G; Lee Harvey Oswald's first girl friend in Minsk, before Marina, also had the last name Германн.  2. WP coverage of ``Suddenly``, 1954 film starring Sinatra as an assassin who prepares to shoot from a hidden high place, has at times contained disputed claims that Oswald saw that film either in 1954 or 1963. 3. A leading character named ``Shaw`` appears in both films.  4. It is alleged that Oswald bought the assassination weapon in March 1963, five months after ``Manchurian Candidate`` was released.`