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
Representative FORD. Have you ever gone back through your orders for
the 22d?
Mr. TRULY. No, sir.
Representative FORD. Just to take a survey?
Mr. TRULY. We have thousands and thousands of accounts, and they run
from A to Z alphabetically in our files. We would have to take--we
would have to go through every invoice in each file, from A to Z, in
order to find any orders he might have filled on that day. And it would
be hard to prove that he filled them on that date because, unless we
found one that had his number on it and was dated November 22d--because
we know he wasn't there after that--but if it was dated November 21st,
he could easily have filled a good number of those orders that morning
of the 22d. But we could not tell whether he filled them the 21st or
the 22d.
Mr. BELIN. Mr. Truly, in line with Congressman Ford's questions, was
there ever a clipboard found in your building at all?
Mr. TRULY. Yes, sir. Sometime later there was a clipboard found that
had two or three orders on it.
Mr. BELIN. What were those orders dated?
Mr. TRULY. I don't remember, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Do you remember where the clipboard was found?
Mr. TRULY. I later learned it was found up on the sixth floor, near the
stairway, behind some cartons. I do not remember just exactly how many
orders were on it, but I think it was only two or three.
Mr. BELIN. Do you remember who found it?
Mr. TRULY. A boy by the name of Frankie Kaiser.
Mr. BELIN. Is he still one of your employees?
Mr. TRULY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Do you know whether this was ever identified as having ever
belonged to any particular employee of yours?
Mr. TRULY. Well, he brought the clipboard to Bill Shelley and told him
about it, and he said, "This is an old clipboard I used to use. This is
the one that Oswald was using." It was a kind of homemade affair.
Mr. BELIN. When you say he brought it to Bill Shelley, who are you
referring to?
Mr. TRULY. I am referring to Frankie Kaiser who brought the clipboard
with the orders downstairs and told Bill Shelley that he had found
Oswald's clipboard with some orders on it.
Mr. BELIN. Had those orders ever been filled or not?
Mr. TRULY. No, sir. You see, when they fill the orders, they take them
off the clipboard. They may have 25 on the clipboard, and after a while
they will have 15 or 10 or something.
Mr. BELIN. Do you know whether or not those orders were ever eventually
filled that were found on the clipboard?
Mr. TRULY. Yes, sir; they were filled.
Mr. BELIN. What did you do with the clipboard and the order blanks that
were on there?
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