Helen Markham was screaming as she leaned over the body.[C4-516] A few minutes later she described the gunman to a policeman.[C4-517] Her description and that of other eyewitnesses led to the police broadcast at 1:22 p.m. describing the slayer as “about 30, 5’8”, black hair, slender.”[C4-518] At about 4:30 p.m., Mrs. Markham, who had been greatly upset by her experience, was able to view a lineup of four men handcuffed together at the police station.[C4-519] She identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the man who shot the policeman.[C4-520] Detective L. C. Graves, who had been with Mrs. Markham before the lineup testified that she was “quite hysterical” and was “crying and upset.”[C4-521] He said that Mrs. Markham started crying when Oswald walked into the lineup room.[C4-522] In testimony before the Commission, Mrs. Markham confirmed her positive identification of Lee Harvey Oswald as the man she saw kill Officer Tippit.[C4-523] In evaluating Mrs. Markham’s identification of Oswald, the Commission considered certain allegations that Mrs. Markham described the man who killed Patrolman Tippit as “short, a little on the heavy side,” and having “somewhat bushy” hair.[C4-524] The Commission reviewed the transcript of a phone conversation in which Mrs. Markham is alleged to have provided such a description.[C4-525] A review of the complete transcript has satisfied the Commission that Mrs. Markham strongly reaffirmed her positive identification of Oswald and denied having described the killer as short, stocky and having bushy hair. She stated that the man weighed about 150 pounds.[C4-526] Although she used the words “a little bit bushy” to describe the gunman’s hair, the transcript establishes that she was referring to the uncombed state of his hair, a description fully supported by a photograph of Oswald taken at the time of his arrest. (See Pizzo Exhibit No. 453-C, p. 177.) Although in the phone conversation she described the man as “short,”[C4-527] on November 22, within minutes of the shooting and before the lineup, Mrs. Markham described the man to the police as 5’8” tall.[C4-528] During her testimony Mrs. Markham initially denied that she ever had the above phone conversation.[C4-529] She has subsequently admitted the existence of the conversation and offered an explanation for her denial.[C4-530] Addressing itself solely to the probative value of Mrs. Markham’s contemporaneous description of the gunman and her positive identification of Oswald at a police lineup, the Commission considers her testimony reliable. However, even in the absence of Mrs. Markham’s testimony, there is ample evidence to identify Oswald as the killer of Tippit.