Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
And about that time an old lady, I think she was an old lady,
I don’t remember nothing but her sticking her head down past
him in the door and said, “Driver, will you call me a cab down
here?”
She had seen him get this cab and she wanted one, too, and he
opened the door a little bit like he was going to get out and
he said, “I will let you have this one,” and she says, “No, the
driver can call me one.”
* * * * *
* * * I asked him where he wanted to go. And he said, “500
North Beckley.”
Well, I started up, I started to that address, and the police
cars, the sirens was going, running crisscrossing everywhere,
just a big uproar in that end of town and I said, “What the
hell. I wonder what the hell is the uproar?”
And he never said anything. So I figured he was one of these
people that don’t like to talk so I never said any more to him.
But when I got pretty close to 500 block at Neches and North
Beckley which is the 500 block, he said, “This will do fine,”
and I pulled over to the curb right there. He gave me a dollar
bill, the trip was 95 cents. He gave me a dollar bill and
didn’t say anything, just got out and closed the door and
walked around the front of the cab over to the other side of
the street [east side of the street]. Of course, the traffic
was moving through there and I put it in gear and moved on,
that is the last I saw of him.[C4-468]
Whaley was somewhat imprecise as to where he unloaded his passenger.
He marked what he thought was the intersection of Neches and Beckley
on a map of Dallas with a large “X.”[C4-469] He said, “Yes, sir; that
is right, because that is the 500 block of North Beckley.”[C4-470]
However, Neches and Beckley do not intersect. Neches is within one-half
block of the roominghouse at 1026 North Beckley where Oswald was
living. The 500 block of North Beckley is five blocks south of the
roominghouse.[C4-471]
After a review of these inconsistencies in his testimony before the
Commission, Whaley was interviewed again in Dallas. The route of the
taxicab was retraced under the direction of Whaley.[C4-472] He directed
the driver of the car to a point 20 feet north of the northwest
corner of the intersection of Beckley and Neely, the point at which
he said his passenger alighted.[C4-473] This was the 700 block of
North Beckley.[C4-474] The elapsed time of the reconstructed run from
the Greyhound Bus Station to Neely and Beckley was 5 minutes and 30
seconds by stopwatch.[C4-475] The walk from Beckley and Neely to 1026
North Beckley was timed by Commission counsel at 5 minutes and 45
seconds.[C4-476]
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