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
Since all of Oswald’s known transactions in connection with firearms
after his return to the United States were undertaken under an assumed
name,[C6-629] it seems unlikely that if he did have repairs made at
the sports shop he would have used his real name. Investigation has
revealed that the authenticity of the repair tag bearing Oswald’s name
is indeed subject to grave doubts. Ryder testified that he found the
repair tag while cleaning his workbench on November 23, 1963.[C6-630]
However, Ryder spoke with Greener repeatedly during the period between
November 22-28 and, sometime prior to November 25, he discussed
with him the possibility that Oswald had been in the store. Neither
he nor Greener could remember that he had been. But despite these
conversations with Greener, it is significant that Ryder never called
the repair tag to his employer’s attention. Greener did not learn about
the tag until November 28, when he was called by TV reporters after the
story had appeared in the Dallas Times-Herald.[C6-631] The peculiarity
of Ryder’s silence is compounded by the fact that, when speaking to
the FBI on November 25, Ryder fixed the period during which the tag
had been issued as November 1-14, 1963, yet, from his later testimony,
it appears that he did so on the basis that it must have occurred
when Greener was on vacation since Greener did not remember the
transaction.[C6-632] Moreover, the FBI had been directed to the Irving
Sports Shop by anonymous telephone calls received by its Dallas office
and by a local television station. The anonymous male who telephoned
the Bureau attributed his information to an unidentified sack boy at a
specified supermarket in Irving, but investigation has failed to verify
this source.[C6-633]
Neither Ryder nor Greener claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald had ever been
a customer in the Irving Sports Shop. Neither has any recollection of
either Oswald or his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, nor does either recall
the transaction allegedly represented by the repair tag or the person
for whom the repair was supposedly made.[C6-634] Although Ryder stated
to the FBI that he was “quite sure” that he had seen Oswald and that
Oswald may have been in the store at one time, when shown a photograph
of Oswald during his deposition, Ryder testified he knew the picture to
be of Oswald, “as the pictures in the paper, but as far as seeing the
guy personally, I don’t think I ever have.”[C6-635]
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