Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. MAMANTOV. They asked her also at that time when did he purchase the
gun and such as where. If I remember right, she said she didn't know,
she stated also that he had had a gun in the Soviet Union. They asked
her a question if it was a dark brown or black gun. She said, "Yes, it
was the same color," and she said, "to me all guns are the same color,"
and then she was asked if she would recognize a gun if shown to her,
and at that time the gun was brought in.
Mr. JENNER. Let's not go to that subject at the moment. I want to go
back.
Mr. MAMANTOV. All right.
Mr. JENNER. What did she say, if anything, as to what she saw or
discovered when she went into the garage that morning, the morning of
November 22, to examine the blanket?
Mr. MAMANTOV. No; here, I cannot state exactly if it was morning, noon
or time police arrived, when she saw the blanket without the gun, and
this--I don't remember--here is my time lapse--whenever she saw it.
Mr. JENNER. But whenever she responded, whenever she saw it that day,
what did she say as to what the package contained, if anything?
Mr. MAMANTOV. The blanket was, I'll put it this way, different position
as she has seen in the past.
Mr. JENNER. You mean in a different position, in a different place in
the garage?
Mr. MAMANTOV. No; it was supposedly in the same place, but there wasn't
anything in it.
Mr. JENNER. You mean it was in a different shape or form or condition?
Mr. MAMANTOV. I'll put it this way--condition.
Mr. JENNER. Did she say what the different condition was?
Mr. MAMANTOV. I don't remember, but that attracted her attention. This
I remember very well. She stated it attracted her attention--as she had
seen before, so much I remember.
Mr. JENNER. Her attention was arrested by the fact that the condition,
shape, form or configuration of the blanket package was different from
what she had noticed it to have been in on prior occasions when she had
seen it?
Mr. MAMANTOV. Evidently--if somebody, for instance, if you see a
package in one shape and at different times, you see different shape.
Mr. JENNER. Did she describe the shape and form and condition of the
package as she saw it prior to this particular occasion on November 22,
what it looked like earlier, and then contrasting that with what it
looked like on the occasion of November 22 when she saw it again?
Mr. MAMANTOV. If I remember right, going back, she had seen the package
of elongated form and for some reason she opened it and saw a gun, and
knowing it was Lee's, at least a gun, and he didn't want her to touch
his things, he was very particular, and after she opened a corner, she
left it in same shape she had found it.
Mr. JENNER. Did she say whether she had pulled the gun entirely out of
the package?
Mr. MAMANTOV. No. No.
Mr. JENNER. Just the butt end?
Mr. MAMANTOV. Just the stock end and she covered immediately and back
so as a result, she--she didn't pull out all--she didn't open the
package.
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