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. BELIN. Officer, first I want to talk about November 22, 1963. Were
you on duty on that date?
Mr. ADAMCIK. No, sir; I wasn't, not at the time pertaining to this.
Mr. BELIN. Not at the time of the assassination?
Mr. ADAMCIK. No; I wasn't.
Mr. BELIN. You were off duty?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I was at home, off duty.
Mr. BELIN. When did you get on duty that day?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I was supposed to go on at 3. However, when I heard
of the assassination--I was supposed to go to court at 2 o'clock,
and I reported down to the courts and the courts were closed, so I
immediately reported to my office, which was about 2 or so.
Mr. BELIN. You were at the office the rest of the afternoon?
Mr. ADAMCIK. No, sir. I stayed at the office a short period of time. I
wasn't there over an hour when Oswald was brought in by the arresting
officers and we were asked--Detectives Stovall and Rose and myself were
asked by Captain Fritz and the supervisor to go to his residence in
Irving, to the Paine residence.
Mr. BELIN. Did Oswald give them that address?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I don't know. I don't recall whether he gave them the
address or they found it on his person in evidence as identification.
Mr. BELIN. What was the address?
Mr. ADAMCIK. 2515 West Fifth Street, Irving. I don't have any idea how
that came about at all. All I remember is that we were told to go to
this address. I don't even remember whether we had a name, a definite
name. We were told to go to this address, that this was the address he
had on his person, or something similar to that, and we did what we
were told.
Mr. BELIN. About what time was this?
Mr. ADAMCIK. This was approximately 2:30. Could I use my report?
Mr. BELIN. Sure. You take your report out and refresh your recollection.
Mr. ADAMCIK. I have it on here, the times mainly. This would be
approximately 2:30.
Mr. BELIN. All right, did you have a search warrant when you went out
there?
Mr. ADAMCIK. No, sir; we did not.
Mr. BELIN. Any particular reason why you didn't?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Well, at the time, we didn't know what we would find. We
didn't have any idea what this address meant to us, and we were mainly
going over to see who was there.
We decided if we were not allowed in the house, invited in, that we
could get a search warrant later to go in, whereas at the time we
didn't have any idea that that address actually had any connection with
these people or with Oswald.
Mr. BELIN. Who did you go with?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I went with Detectives Rose and Stovall, and we were met
by three county officers there at the scene before we went up, because
being out of the city limits of Dallas, we had three county officers go
along with us, because it was in their jurisdiction.
Mr. BELIN. What time did you get there?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I would say that it didn't take us over, it probably took
us half an hour to get there. I would say it would be approximately 3
o'clock.
Mr. BELIN. What did you do when you got there?
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