Warren Commission (07 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (07 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. POTTS. I was at home then and I was sitting there and my wife said,
"They are going to televise this transfer of Oswald." I said, "I've
seen enough of that and I don't want to look at it." And she said, "We
need milk and bread for lunch," and so I got up and got in the car
and went to Safeway and was standing in line to check out there and a
woman--well, it looked like a woman--came out and said, "Oswald has
just been shot." Well, I thought that was a big joke, too, and went
back out there and turned on the car radio and there that was. I came
on back on duty that day.
Mr. BALL. When you went out to see Mr. Fischer----
Mr. POTTS. Now, Mr. Turner had this information about this Fischer man.
He and Mr. Senkel--they were in the motorcade that day. In fact, they
were in the lead car.
Mr. BALL. Senkel was?
Mr. POTTS. Senkel, Turner, and Chief Lumpkin were in the lead car in
the motorcade, and I think Turner had gotten this information about
this Fischer fellow. I had never heard about him until Turner asked me,
he said, "Let's go out and talk to this Mr. Fischer." He said, "He is
supposed to have been standing down there watching the parade go by
and he saw this man in this window," and he wanted to know--we took
a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald out there to see if he could identify
him as being the man he saw in the window, and we went out there on
the 25th of November with Lee Harvey Oswald's picture to 4007 Flamingo
Street in Mesquite. That's where this Ronald Fischer lives, and he
works for the county auditor's office down there. He was working that
day and most of the county employees stood out on the street to watch
the parade, and we took his picture out there and he said, "I can't
say for sure that's the man that I saw in that window up there, but it
looks like him." He said he saw him up there just a few minutes before
he heard the shots fired.
Mr. BALL. Now, you made written reports of these investigations you are
testifying about?
Mr. POTTS. Yes.
Mr. BALL. And you have refreshed your memory from them--from your own
handwritten notes?
Mr. POTTS. That's right--I have.
Mr. BALL. I would like to have marked your report on your officer's
duty on Friday, November 22, and also on the 23d and 25th of November,
being two sheets, numbered 230 and 231, as the next exhibit, and page 3
of your report, being No. 232, being a report of your participation in
the showup on November 23, 1963, at 2:15--as the next exhibit.
(Instrument referred to marked by the reporter as "Potts Exhibits B and
C," respectively, for identification.)
Mr. BALL. I think that's all and I do want to thank you very much.
Mr. POTTS. You are certainly welcome.
Mr. BALL. This will be written up and you can come down and read it and
sign it or you can waive your signature and we will send it on to the
Commission. You can tell me what you want to do.
Mr. POTTS. Oh, I will sign it.
Mr. BALL. All right, then you will be notified when it is ready for you
to sign.
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