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. Actually it is not reserve stock--it is not surplus either.
It is part of our stock. But we can carry a limited amount only on the
first floor where we do our shipping. So they may get an order for a
hundred copies of a certain book and there may only be 10 or 15 or 20
on the shelf on the first floor. They will have to go upstairs and get
a carton or two. And they replenish the first floor stock from that.
And many of our freight orders are filled entirely from our reserve
stock. And they bring them to the first floor. All orders reach the
first floor, where they are checked and processed and packed and
shipped from that floor.
Mr. BELIN. Where, generally, are Scott, Foresman books kept?
Mr. TRULY. On the first floor and the sixth floor. We have a large
quantity of their books on the sixth floor.
Mr. BELIN. And this is the area where Lee Harvey Oswald worked?
Mr. TRULY. That is right.
Mr. BELIN. That publisher?
Mr. TRULY. That publisher. He had occasion to go to the sixth floor
quite a number of times every day, each day, after books.
Mr. BELIN. Now, when an order would come in, how would it get to the
individual employee, so the employee would go out and pick out the
books?
Mr. TRULY. The orders came into our office and were processed by our
girls, priced and billed by the bill clerks, and then were sent down
a little chute to the first floor, a little dumbwaiter, regardless of
publisher.
The boys would take them off of this dumbwaiter and carry them over on
to a little table near the checker stand.
Various ones would sort out the publishers--sort out the orders by
publishers.
Scott Foresman could be here, there would be a stock of Gregg and
Southwestern over here, we have a number of small publishers, maybe we
would group them altogether. And the boys usually know which particular
orders they are supposed to fill from, because they know the books,
they can tell.
On each order it says, "SF" for Scott, Foresman on each invoice and so
forth.
Mr. BELIN. Do they just pick up the piece of paper for the order and
carry them around with them?
Mr. TRULY. That is right. Most of them use a clipboard. They may have
several orders at a time on the clipboard. That saves them going back
to the table continually for one order. These orders amount from
anything to $3 or $4 to $300 or $400, on up.
But usually if a boy is filling Scott, Foresman's orders, for instance,
and he sees half a dozen over there, he will pick up maybe that many.
But during our busy season, when we have stacks and stacks of orders on
the table, they don't try to put them all on a clipboard, they take a
few at a time--when they go to the sixth floor after stock, they try to
be certain what they need for several orders at one trip.
Mr. BELIN. Who else worked on Scott, Foresman other than Lee Harvey
Oswald?
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