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. JENNER. All right. I offer in evidence as Commission
Exhibit No. 427, the employee identification questionnaire of
Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall Co. which has now been identified.
How long have you been employed by Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall?
Mr. GRAEF. Approximately 11 or 12--I've almost forgotten--it seems it
was either 1952 or 1953, I came with them.
Mr. JENNER. Is this an old Dallas firm?
Mr. GRAEF. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. By reputation, how long has it been around here?
Mr. GRAEF. I believe about since 1922.
Mr. JENNER. Does this company do any lithography?
Mr. GRAEF. No.
Mr. JENNER. Tell us in general, apart from your particular interests
and work in the company, what in general does the company do?
Mr. GRAEF. We set type. We have an enormous inventory of all kinds of
type faces, all designs, for example, scripts--roman letters, sans
serif faces--an enormous repertoire of styles from which advertising
agencies and artists can choose to make up advertisements for headlines
or body copy. This basically is our biggest function. We don't do any
printing.
Mr. JENNER. Do you make mats?
Mr. GRAEF. Yes; it's a rather complete service. We can take an
advertisement from the very beginning and actually carry it all the
way through to the end, to the point where we mail the mats to the
newspapers for insertion, but we don't do any printing as such, of any
kind.
Mr. JENNER. Are you a native of Dallas?
Mr. GRAEF. No.
Mr. JENNER. Just tell me in a few words something about yourself?
Mr. GRAEF. Oh, golly--I was born in Chicago, Ill.
Mr. JENNER. So was I.
Mr. GRAEF. I went to Lane Tech.
Mr. JENNER. I went to Lindblom High School, and that's where I
practiced law and have done for 30 years.
Mr. GRAEF. Well, I haven't been back there for quite some time. I left
there about 1940, after graduating from high school, took commercial
art at Lane Tech, and I went down to Tennessee and worked at the
Kingsport Press designing book covers and also the Holston ordnance
works, and during the very beginning of the war, this was the last--the
Second World War--then I was drafted into the service and served as an
airborne engineer for 3 years.
Mr. JENNER. In the Army?
Mr. GRAEF. Yes; I spent 2 years overseas and came back to Kingsport,
Tenn., and then the wife and I decided to head west, and while I was
away, she had written various chambers of commerce around the country
and the Dallas Chamber of Commerce did the best job, so we decided to
take a short vacation here and see if I could find work, which I did,
and which we did and I did, and this was in 1946, so we have been here
ever since.
Mr. JENNER. You were each native born Americans?
Mr. GRAEF. That's correct.
And honorably discharged--period.
Mr. JENNER. Now, this man is employed--carry on.
Mr. GRAEF. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Was he regular in his arrival at work?
Mr. GRAEF. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Were his work habits in that connection satisfactory?
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