Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. BROOKS. About a year. It will be 2 years in July, actually, in this
position.
Mr. JENNER. So you became one in July of 1962?
Mr. BROOKS. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. At the Dallas office?
Mr. BROOKS. Yes, sir; I have been in the Dallas office.
Mr. JENNER. Do you function in any particular division of the Dallas
office of the Texas Employment Commission?
Mr. BROOKS. Yes; counseling department in the industrial office.
Mr. JENNER. In the industrial office?
Mr. BROOKS. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Now there are counseling departments, are there not, and
divisions or offices other than the industrial?
Mr. BROOKS. There are people assigned to be employment counselors in
the other offices.
Mr. JENNER. In the course of that employment, did the occasion arise in
which you met officially a man by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mr. BROOKS. Yes; he was referred to me by the placement division.
Mr. JENNER. Now give us the circumstances, first, so that someone
reading the transcript will be able to comprehend the circumstances
under which this young man was referred to you.
Mr. BROOKS. As I remember it, he was referred to me because he had
shown reluctance to accept employment in the industrial field, and
therefore, this is one of the reasons they send a man to the counseling
division, and this is how he came to me.
Mr. JENNER. Came to your division?
Mr. BROOKS. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. I take it then that the Texas Employment Commission--let's
use a hypothetical now at the moment: Assume there has been an
applicant for employment. There appear to be positions open in the
industrial field. The applicant indicates some reluctance to accept,
to seek, at least, employment in the industrial field, but mentions
preference for some other field. The fact that there is a reference to
you does not necessarily mean, does it, that the applicant is one who
is inclined to "gold brick" and is not really looking for a job?
Mr. BROOKS. Nothing in conference like that.
Mr. JENNER. Tell us what the industrial field is?
Mr. BROOKS. The industrial field, of course, is primarily jobs with
factories, actually. That includes skilled and semiskilled jobs, and
also in our industrial office, truck driving and service station work
is also included in this field. But primarily it is an office where the
factory employer calls in for factory laborers, whether they be skilled
or unskilled.
Mr. JENNER. All right, now, yesterday Mr. Adams, Mr. Statman, and Mrs.
Cunningham provided some records from the Texas Employment Commission,
and I notice that on one of them appears your name, Don Brooks, and
that is what is referred to generally as an applicant card.
Mr. BROOKS. E-13.
Mr. JENNER. E-13 (Cunningham Exhibit No. 1), and that the other
witnesses generally refer to that as an E-13 card?
Mr. BROOKS. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Now would you please examine that E-13 card, particularly
the inside face which bears your signature. By the way, does that bear
your signature?
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