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. GRAVES. She was standing in the center of the room, approximately
in the first row of seats near the front.
Mr. BELIN. She was seated?
Mr. GRAVES. No; she was standing.
Mr. BELIN. She was standing?
Mr. GRAVES. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Did she look through an opening in the wall?
Mr. GRAVES. No; this is a screen, a nylon screen of some kind. I am
sure you have seen them?
Mr. BELIN. She can see through, as I understand, but the people in the
showup room cannot see the people on the other side of the screen. Is
that correct?
Mr. GRAVES. That's correct.
Mr. BELIN. All right. Do you remember what she said or did after the
men in the showup came in?
Mr. GRAVES. Well, she began to cry when he came in. He was next to the
last man that come in in that order. No. 4, 3, 2, 1, and so forth that
came in.
Mr. BELIN. You mean No. 4 came first, then No. 3 and then No. 2 and
then No. 1?
Mr. GRAVES. That's right.
Mr. BELIN. When did she start crying?
Mr. GRAVES. When he walked in, Oswald walked in.
Mr. BELIN. You mean when the No. 2 man walked in?
Mr. GRAVES. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Were they still walking at the time she started crying?
Mr. GRAVES. Yes. As soon as she saw him; yes. He would have to walk as
far as from here to that stand, approximately.
Mr. BELIN. That would be about 6 or 8 feet?
Mr. GRAVES. Yes, sir; roughly.
Mr. BELIN. All right. What did she do or say?
Mr. GRAVES. Well, of course she said that was the man that she saw,
Oswald. I mean at this particular time.
Mr. BELIN. Did she ask to have the men turn so that she would see their
profiles?
Mr. GRAVES. Well, I don't recall if she asked that or not, but that is
the normal procedure that we do that. We turn him profile, right, left,
and to the rear, and back to the front, in that order.
Mr. BELIN. Do you remember anything specific that she said at the time
that she made the identification?
Mr. GRAVES. Nothing other than he is the one, No. 2 is the one.
Mr. BELIN. Was anything said by any of the men in the showup that
would--did they speak any words or say anything at all?
Mr. GRAVES. If they did, I don't remember what was said. I am
reasonably sure they asked some questions. That is the usual procedure.
If they were, at this point I just don't remember what was said.
Mr. BELIN. Do you remember the dress of the people in the showup?
Mr. GRAVES. No; positively not.
Mr. BELIN. Does your police department ever take any photograph of an
actual showup, I mean, insofar as still shots, to have any written or
pictorial record of the men in the showup, as to what they were wearing
or what they looked like?
Mr. GRAVES. That was not a policy or an order at this time, but it has
been done, however, in the past.
But for various reasons, as I say, it is not the customary thing,
because we have quite a number of showups that would necessitate a
time element there, sometimes waiting on the proper people to take the
picture, and so forth.
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