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. Did anybody protest that you were passing out leaflets of
which they disapproved?
Mr. STEELE. Nobody. As a matter of fact, I didn't have any trouble
getting rid of them. The people just sort of grabbed them as they
passed by. It was just something free, you know, and I guess there's
always a feeling that when you get something free you might as well
take it.
Mr. JENNER. What time of day did you go into the unemployment office
with your girl friend?
Mr. STEELE. Before 12, possibly 11 or 11:30; I don't remember that.
Mr. JENNER. Do you remember the conversation with your girl friend when
you told her that you were going to pass out these leaflets in front of
this building?
Mr. STEELE. No; she was just saying she had to go back to the school
board building to see this guy.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have any discussion with her as to whether she
would accompany you?
Mr. STEELE. Accompany me where?
Mr. JENNER. Accompany you to where you were going to pass out these
leaflets?
Mr. STEELE. No.
Mr. JENNER. Did you drive her somewhere before you went back to pass
out these leaflets?
Mr. STEELE. To the school board building.
Mr. JENNER. The Orleans parish school board?
Mr. STEELE. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Did you return there and pick her up?
Mr. STEELE. I returned there, but I didn't pick her up. I don't know
what happened, but I missed her somehow.
Mr. JENNER. You say Lee Oswald told you it would take 15 or 20 minutes
to pass out these leaflets. What time did you get back to pass them out
after you had taken your girl friend to the school board building?
Mr. STEELE. I don't know what time it was, but I figure I was in front
of the Trade Mart Building about 15 minutes--12 or 15 minutes; I think
it was about 25 after 12, maybe 20 minutes after, when I got there. It
only takes a few minutes to get from the school board building down to
the Trade Mart. I had to be to work for 2 o'clock.
Mr. JENNER. You had to go to work that afternoon, that this happened?
Mr. STEELE. Yes; I had to be at work at 2 o'clock that afternoon.
Later on that night she called me and told me that my picture was on
television.
Mr. JENNER. Did you see her before she came to see you about your
picture being on television?
Mr. STEELE. No; I saw her later.
Mr. JENNER. You saw her later that night?
Mr. STEELE. I don't think any more that night; I think it was the next
day.
Mr. JENNER. Did you have a conversation with her about passing out
these leaflets.
Mr. STEELE. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. What did you say to her and what did she say to you?
Mr. STEELE. She told me that I was in trouble, that there was some kind
of a deal on television about passing out these leaflets or something,
and from what she had read before, it sounded like communism, or
something. Now, I had taken a course in high school on that, so I knew
a little bit about that, so I thought I had better tell my boss about
it, which I did.
Mr. JENNER. You told your boss about it?
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