Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. LIEBELER. So you are actually presently located or based in
Arlington; is that correct?
Mr. VINSON. That's right. We have an office in Arlington.
Mr. LIEBELER. Have you been doing this same work ever since you went to
work for the newspaper?
Mr. VINSON. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. What other jobs have you had?
Mr. VINSON. When I started, I was given the routine work that most
beginner reporters assume. You start out writing obituaries and just
general assignments on the city side or working through the city
editor, and I did that for about 6 weeks.
During this time I was doing this 4 days a week, while on Saturday they
were training me to take over the police reporters job. And I worked 4
days out of the main office and 1 day from the police station for about
6 weeks.
And then around the first of September I became a full-time police
reporter for the Evening Star Telegram, and I worked as a police
reporter until about October the 1--excuse me, until about, I would
say, around October 20, the latter part of October. I don't know the
dates exactly, but I stayed as a police reporter for a little less than
2 months. Then the management decided that they were going to establish
this bureau in Arlington, and I was chosen along with another reporter
to come out to work in Arlington.
Mr. LIEBELER. How old are you, Mr. Vinson?
Mr. VINSON. Twenty-three.
Mr. LIEBELER. When were you born?
Mr. VINSON. July 6, 1940.
Mr. LIEBELER. Where?
Mr. VINSON. Childress, Tex.
Mr. LIEBELER. Where is that?
Mr. VINSON. It is just at the beginning of the Panhandle. It is about
120 miles west of Wichita Falls and about 150 miles southeast of
Amarillo, just at the base of the Panhandle.
Mr. LIEBELER. How long did you live there?
Mr. VINSON. I lived there until the summer of 1947, with one exception.
We moved to Fort Worth in 1945, 1946, for a short time, about 3 months,
and my father was working in Fort Worth, but my mother and I, there was
this big housing shortage after the war and we couldn't find a place to
live, so we moved back to Childress until my father was able to find
us a place to live. That was in the summer of 1946, as I recall now,
because I started to school in the first grade in Childress that fall.
Mr. LIEBELER. Then you and your mother finally moved to Fort Worth?
Mr. VINSON. Yes; in the summer of 1947, we moved to Fort Worth, and
that fall I started to school in Fort Worth, and that would have been
the second grade.
Mr. LIEBELER. You went to the first grade in Childress?
Mr. VINSON. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. And you went to the second grade in what school?
Mr. VINSON. Lily B. Clayton Elementary School.
Mr. LIEBELER. Where did you live in Fort Worth at that time?
Mr. VINSON. 661 Seventh Avenue.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you have any brothers or sisters?
Mr. VINSON. I have one brother.
Mr. LIEBELER. Older or younger?
Mr. VINSON. Younger.
Mr. LIEBELER. How old is he?
Mr. VINSON. Three.
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