Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. RANKIN. There was a map of the area where the Walker house was?
Mrs. OSWALD. It was a map of Dallas, but I don't know where Walker
lived. Sometimes evenings he would be busy with this. Perhaps he was
calculating something, but I don't know. He had a bus schedule and
computed something.
After this had happened, people thought that he had a car, but he had
been using a bus.
Mr. RANKIN. Did he explain to you about his being able to use a bus
just as well as other people could use a car--something of that kind?
Mrs. OSWALD. No. Simply as a passenger. He told me that even before
that time he had gone also to shoot, but he had returned. I don't know
why. Because on the day that he did fire, there was a church across the
street and there were many people there, and it was easier to merge in
the crowd and not be noticed.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you ask him about this note that he had left, what he
meant by it?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes--he said he had in mind that if in case he were
arrested, I would know what to do.
Mr. RANKIN. The note doesn't say anything about Walker, does it?
Mrs. OSWALD. No.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you ask him if that is what he meant by the note?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, because as soon as he came home I showed him the note
and asked him "What is the meaning of this?"
Mr. RANKIN. And that is when he gave you the explanation about the
Walker shooting?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
I know that on a Sunday he took the rifle, but I don't think he fired
on a Sunday. Perhaps this was on Friday. So Sunday he left and took the
rifle.
Mr. RANKIN. If the Walker shooting was on Wednesday, does that refresh
your memory as to the day of the week at all?
Mrs. OSWALD. Refresh my memory as to what?
Mr. RANKIN. As to the day of the shooting?
Mrs. OSWALD. It was in the middle of the week.
Mr. RANKIN. Did he give any further explanation of what had happened
that evening?
Mrs. OSWALD. When he fired, he did not know whether he had hit Walker
or not. He didn't take the bus from there. He ran several kilometers
and then took the bus. And he turned on the radio and listened, but
there were no reports.
The next day he bought a paper and there he read it was only chance
that saved Walker's life. If he had not moved, he might have been
killed.
Mr. RANKIN. Did he comment on that at all?
Mrs. OSWALD. He said only that he had taken very good aim, that it was
just chance that caused him to miss. He was very sorry that he had not
hit him.
I asked him to give me his word that he would not repeat anything like
that. I said that this chance shows that he must live and that he
should not be shot at again. I told him that I would save the note and
that if something like that should be repeated again, I would go to
the police and I would have the proof in the form of that note.
He said he would not repeat anything like that again.
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