Warren Commission (03 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (03 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
When you said on January 7th that upon seeing Lee Harvey Oswald in the
lineup you felt that Oswald most resembled the man whom you had seen in
the window?
Mr. BRENNAN. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Now, I am referring to a statement to the FBI on January 7th
of this year.
Mr. BRENNAN. All right.
Mr. BELIN. By that, did you have reference to your own personal
recollection, or what you said at the time of the Dallas Police
Department lineup?
Mr. BRENNAN. I believe I was referring to what I said at the Dallas
Police Department.
Mr. BELIN. On January 7th of this year, what is the fact as to whether
or not you could give--whether or not you felt on November 22d that the
man you saw in the window was the man you saw in the police lineup--not
what you told him, but what was the fact?
Mr. BRENNAN. On January 7th, at that time I did believe that I could
give positive identification as well as I did later.
Mr. BELIN. You mean in the December interview?
Mr. BRENNAN. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Let me ask you this: You said you saw the man with the rifle
on the sixth floor, and then you said you saw some Negroes on the fifth
floor.
Mr. BRENNAN. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Did you get as good a look at the Negroes as you got at the
man with the rifle?
Mr. BRENNAN. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Did you feel that your recollection of the Negroes at that
time was as good as the one with the man with the rifle?
Mr. BRENNAN. Yes--at that time, it was. Now--the boys rode up with me
on the plane--of course I recognize them now. But as far as a few days
later, I wouldn't positively say that I could identify them. I did
identify them that day.
Mr. BELIN. Well, for instance, when I showed you Exhibit 482, you said
that you could not identify----
Mr. BRENNAN. Well, the picture is not clear enough, as far as distinct
profiles.
Mr. DULLES. Mr. Belin, I don't think you have asked they be admitted as
yet.
Mr. BELIN. No, sir. I have one more mark to make on them, sir.
Mr. BRENNAN. The pictures there are not clear enough, the profile is
not distinct enough.
Mr. BELIN. All right.
Now, I wonder if you would take on Exhibit 482, if you can kind of mark
the way the rifle was at the time you saw it.
Here is a red pencil. If you could put on Exhibit 482 the direction
that you saw the rifle pointing, sir.
Mr. BRENNAN. I would say more at this angle. Maybe not as far out as
this.
Mr. BELIN. You have put a line, and I have tried to make a little bit
darker line.
Mr. BRENNAN. That is as close as I can get it.
Mr. BELIN. This is on Exhibit 482--as to the angle at which you saw the
rifle. And you say perhaps it wasn't out of the window as far as this
line goes on Exhibit 482, is that correct?
Mr. BRENNAN. Right.
Representative FORD. That is the angle that you believe the rifle was
pointed?
Mr. BRENNAN. Yes.
Mr. DULLES. And that is from the area in the window from which the
rifle was pointing?
Mr. BRENNAN. Right.
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