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. TURNER. Mr. Ryder said that he wrote the work ticket up with the
name Oswald on it. We showed him a picture of Oswald, and he stated
that he cannot identify the man as the one who left the rifle with him.
Mr. BELIN. Did he say that he was sure that Oswald's picture was not
the man, or did he just say he could not give positive identification
one way or the other, if you remember?
Mr. TURNER. I don't recall the exact words, but I know he didn't
identify him.
Mr. BELIN. What else did he say?
Mr. TURNER. Well, he said that, I believe, that this ticket was written
up with a pencil. He said he usually writes with a pen, and he could
recall some days in the past month when he had forgotten his pen or
something, and he was going to check around and see if he could figure
out what day the rifle might have been left there.
Mr. BELIN. Did he ever do this at all, or not?
Mr. TURNER. I don't recall whether he did or not.
Mr. BELIN. You don't have another record of your going back and talking
to him, do you?
Mr. TURNER. No, sir.
Mr. BELIN. You don't know if the FBI did?
Mr. TURNER. No, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Did he say whether or not he had ever seen any pictures of
the rifle?
Mr. TURNER. Said he had seen pictures of it, yes, sir; probably in the
paper.
Mr. BELIN. Did he say whether or not those pictures enabled him to
determine that he had or had not worked on it?
Mr. TURNER. He said from the pictures he had seen of it, he did not
think that he was working on it.
Mr. BELIN. Why not?
Mr. TURNER. He thinks from the photos that the scope mounting had only
two screws in it, and he states that they charged for three on this
ticket, and said that he also thinks that he would remember a cheap
scope like was attached to this rifle, and would have tried to sell the
man another one, and would remember that.
Mr. BELIN. Anything else about him?
Mr. TURNER. No, sir.
Mr. BELIN. All right, now, I believe you said you took a picture of
Oswald out to this Ronald Fischer that lived in Mesquite, Tex.?
Mr. TURNER. Yes, sir.
Mr. BELIN. Do you remember anything else that Fischer might have said
about this?
Mr. TURNER. No, sir; only that he said the photos of Oswald looked
like the man he saw at the window that shot, and he stated he saw this
man a minute or less before the motorcade arrived, and could not say
definitely this was the man. He said it looked like him.
Mr. BELIN. Detective Turner, is there anything else you can think of
that in any way bears upon the assassination of the President of the
investigation you made that we haven't discussed here?
Mr. TURNER. No, sir.
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