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
Now, handing you Commission Exhibit 504, there appear to be some
boxes near a window on a floor of your building. And I note that on
two of the boxes they are marked "Ten Rolling Readers." Are those the
Rolling Reader cartons that you referred to, with the letters "RR" on
Commission Exhibit 483?
(The document referred to was marked Commission Exhibit No. 504 for
identification.)
Mr. TRULY. Yes, sir; that is right.
Representative FORD. The Rolling Reader boxes were not ordinarily in
that southeast corner?
Mr. TRULY. No, sir. That was not the place for them. They were 40 feet
or so away.
Representative FORD. May I ask--the job that Oswald had, how did you
designate it?
Mr. TRULY. Well, he filled orders.
Representative FORD. He was an order filler?
Mr. TRULY. Order filler.
Representative FORD. Do you keep records of the orders that are filled
by each order filler every day?
Mr. TRULY. Not every day; no, sir. Occasionally we would double check
on the employees, or the checker would count up the number and give
me the number each employee filled in that day, or several days in
succession for a whole week.
Representative FORD. Would you know what orders Oswald filled November
22d?
Mr. TRULY. No, sir; I would not.
Representative FORD. You would have no way of checking that?
Mr. TRULY. No. They would have been some orders that he filled the 21st
that were not checked and out of the house on the 22d. And I could not
tell how many he filled or when he filled his orders, no, sir.
Representative FORD. When an order filler fills an order, does he make
his initial or mark on it?
Mr. TRULY. Yes, sir; he does. Up there where it says "L", which is
layout, he puts his number, and then the checker puts his number under
"C" when he checks the order and sees that it is all right, and sends
it on for packing.
Representative FORD. Well, it would seem to me that every order that
was filled on a particular day by an order filler could be identified
as to the individual.
Mr. TRULY. You see, we don't always get out our orders the same day
they are shipped. The order fillers fill lots of orders, and they are
filling orders on up to quitting time in the afternoon, and those
wouldn't go out until the next day, or sometime, if they get ahead of
the checker. They don't put the date on them when they fill them.
Representative FORD. What I am trying to find out--is there any way
to trace by the orders that were filled by Oswald on the morning of
November 22d as to whether or not in the process of filling orders he
was taken to the sixth floor?
Mr. TRULY. No, sir; we could not tell whether he filled any orders
that might be dated November 22d--might have been filled--if they were
dated November 22d and had Oswald's number on it, we would know that
he filled those on November 22d. But if they were billed and dated on
the 20th and 21st, and there was a number of those filled, we could not
tell how many of those he filled on the 22d.
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