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
Mr. BALL. And how long did you stay there?
Mr. WILLIAMS. About 6 or 7 months.
Mr. BALL. Then where did you go to work?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I went to work at Union Terminal Building, baggage
department.
Mr. BALL. How long did you work there?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I worked there about a year.
Mr. BALL. What kind of work did you do there?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I was a mail separator.
Mr. BALL. Then where did you go?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Then I found this job at the Texas School Book Depository.
Mr. BALL. When did you get that job?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Around about September 8th.
Mr. BALL. What year?
Mr. WILLIAMS. 1963.
Mr. BALL. How did you happen to go there to get the job?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Well, my wife was expecting, and I just wanted a day
job--I was working at night. So I just went looking for a day job, and
I happened to come down that way.
Mr. DULLES. Were you going to school in the daytime?
Mr. WILLIAMS. No.
Mr. DULLES. This is after you finished school?
Mr. WILLIAMS. All this took place after I finished school.
Mr. BALL. You finished school when?
Mr. WILLIAMS. 1962.
Mr. BALL. And you had these three----
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir; and I had a part-time job at a construction
company. I don't remember the name of it. But it was just for about a
week.
Mr. BALL. When you were going to school?
Mr. WILLIAMS. No. That was the same time I was working at Marriott's
Motel.
Mr. BALL. Did you work while you went to school?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I delivered the Dallas morning newspaper sometimes, and
little odd jobs.
Mr. BALL. Well, did anybody tell you you might get a job at the Texas
School Book Depository before you went down there?
Mr. WILLIAMS. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. You were just looking for a job?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I just put in applications everywhere.
Mr. BALL. What kind of work did you do when you first went with the
Texas School Book Depository?
Mr. WILLIAMS. I think the first day I started work there they started
me off as a wrapper. Then the fellows told me that I had qualifications
to be a checker, so they put me on as a checker there.
Mr. BALL. What are you doing now?
Mr. WILLIAMS. At the present time I do anything--check, pack, fill
orders, anything.
Mr. BALL. When you went to work there, did you work at the building on
the corner of Houston and Elm?
Mr. WILLIAMS. No, sir. The first time I went there I was hired on at
the other warehouse, the lower part of Houston Street.
Mr. BALL. By lower part, do you mean north of the main building?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir. Down further, the big white building.
Mr. BALL. That is sort of a warehouse?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. You went to work there. That is about a block, a block and a
half north?
Mr. WILLIAMS. A block and a half.
Mr. BALL. North of the corner of Houston and Elm?
Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. And how long did you work at that place?
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