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. TRULY. He came to work the next morning. I told him what his duties
were to be--would be filling book orders. And I told Mr. Shelley, who
is on that floor and has charge of the miscellaneous department.
Now, this particular thing as to whether I called a boy or Mr. Shelley
did--anyway, we put Lee Oswald with another worker who was experienced
in filling orders. This boy showed him the location of the various
publishers' stock. He worked with him, it seems to me, like only an
hour or two, and then he started filling orders by himself. And from
then on he worked alone.
He would occasionally ask the other boys where certain stock items were
when he couldn't find them. But he was filling small parcel post and
a few freight orders for the various schools--as they would come down
from the office.
Mr. BELIN. Well, could you describe how his work progressed as he was
working with you?
Mr. TRULY. Well, he seemed to catch on and learn the location of the
stock. We have several thousand titles of books in our warehouse. But
he was filling mostly one or two publishers' orders.
Mr. BELIN. What publishers were those?
Mr. TRULY. The main publisher was Scott, Foresman and Co.
Now, they have quite a lot of small orders, all through the year. They
are one of our biggest publishers. So it kept him busy filling mostly
their orders, plus some of the smaller publishers. Possibly he filled
some of Gregg Publishing Co. and others. But when he would run out of
Scott, Foresman orders, he would pick up other orders that might have
had several publishers' books on the same order.
Incidentally, not only Scott, Foresman orders were billed separately.
There would be other publishers' orders on the same invoice.
Mr. BELIN. Well, perhaps you might explain to the Commission just what
exactly the nature of your business is, and how an employee would go
about filling orders.
Mr. TRULY. We are agents for a number of publishers. We furnish offices
for those who desire them in Texas. And our business is shipping,
inventorying, collecting, doing all the bookkeeping work for the
various publishers' books.
Now, we have--most of the publishers' stock is lined up alphabetically
by titles or by stock numbers or code numbers, whichever determines
that.
And the location of the books--each publisher's books are to
themselves. They are not mixed in with several other publishers on the
various floors.
On the first floor we have bin stock, shelf stock, we fill a lot of
small orders from.
And then in the basement the same.
The fifth and the sixth floor, and part of the seventh floor is
overflow stock. It is reserve stock.
But the boys have to go to those floors all during the day to pick up
stock and bring it to the first floor in order to process and complete
the orders for the checker.
Mr. DULLES. What would reserve stock mean?
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