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. Were you asked ever to make a report of any conversation you
had with him?
Mr. WALKER. No; they called me on the phone a couple of days after, and
some supervisor asked me, there had been a rumor got out that Oswald
had said, "Well, I got me a President and a cop. I should have got me
two more." Or something like that.
But that conversation was never said, because I was with him from the
time that he was arrested until the time the detectives took him over.
I made a written report on the arrest about a week after it happened,
and that is the only conversation I had with anyone.
Mr. BELIN. In that report you didn't put any conversation that Oswald
had, did you?
Mr. WALKER. No; I didn't put any conversation. I just put the details
of the arrest.
Mr. BELIN. Were you asked just to make a report on your arrest of
Oswald?
Mr. WALKER. That is normal procedure, just what we call a "Dear Chief"
letter.
Just describe the arrest and other officers involved, and we never did
put what conversation we had.
Mr. BELIN. Anything else that Oswald said in your presence, or that you
said to him?
Mr. WALKER. Not that I recall.
Mr. BELIN. At any time prior to the time you left him, did you find out
he was a suspect in the assassination?
Mr. WALKER. When I got to the jail office and talk was going there that
he was the suspect.
Mr. BELIN. Did you ask him any questions about the assassination?
Mr. WALKER. No; I didn't tie him in at that time with the actual
killing of the President.
Mr. BELIN. Is there anything else you can think of now that might be
relevant?
Mr. WALKER. No.
Mr. BELIN. Now we chatted a little bit at the beginning prior to this
deposition, and you said that you knew Officer Tippit, is that correct?
Mr. WALKER. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. How long had you known Officer Tippit?
Mr. WALKER. Ever since I have been on the police department. When I
first came to work, I was assigned to the Oak Cliff substation and
worked there until I went to traffic investigation, and he was there
all the time.
I am sure I worked with him when I first started out and was training
and stuff like that. But I had worked with him prior to his death for,
I know, maybe 2 or 3 years.
Mr. BELIN. Now at the time of the Tippit shooting, there had been no
call for Lee Harvey Oswald as an individual, although there was a call
for--I mean there was an announcement of a general description of the
suspect in the assassination?
Mr. WALKER. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Just from your knowledge of the way Tippit operated, do you
have any reason to think whether that general call might have affected
his perhaps stopping this man on the street at the time of the shooting?
Mr. WALKER. I believe the type of officer Tippit was, that he was
suspicious of him as a suspect.
Mr. BELIN. Why do you believe that?
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