Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. TURNER. Commerce Street entrance. All right, and when I came back
in, which was approximately 3 or 4 minutes after, after we got the
stuff ready to bring the camera in to take the lineup room, which is in
the basement of the jail, well, this officer had him at the door, and
he was trying to show him identification from his billfold.
Mr. HUBERT. You don’t know who that officer was?
Mr. TURNER. No, sir; I don’t. And this man turned to me and said, “That
man there can identify me,” and I said, “Like hell I can. I don’t know
who you are or what you are.” Or similar to this effect, that I had
seen the man, but I didn’t know who he was, so, I kept on about my
business, because we were pretty rushed at that time, and approximately
15 minutes later I ran onto him in the hallway coming back out the
same door, and he said, “Thanks a million,” and I said, “Well, I don’t
know you from anyone.” I said, “That’s why I didn’t identify you.” Or
something to that effect and from that point on, I have never seen the
gentleman again.
Mr. HUBERT. Have you made any effort to ascertain who he was?
Mr. TURNER. I have reported this to the Secret Service, Mr. Carter with
the Secret Service, and I figured it wasn’t any of my business, from
that point on.
Mr. HUBERT. You have never seen him since?
Mr. TURNER. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. You were at the Ruby trial?
Mr. TURNER. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. You never saw that man there?
Mr. TURNER. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know most of the officers of the--top officers, at
least--of the Dallas Police Department?
Mr. TURNER. I know several. The chief and several of them, by face. I
do not know them personally.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, in any case, as far as you know, this man that you
have described looks like John Carradine, with the other aspects of the
description you have given, wasn’t a police officer that you knew to be
a police officer?
Mr. TURNER. That’s right, sir--as far as I know. I never saw him
talking to a police officer or any of them except the one.
Mr. HUBERT. He wasn’t at the Ruby trial?
Mr. TURNER. He was never at the Ruby trial. The one officer at the door
was the only contact I ever saw him with a police officer, and that was
when he was, to my knowledge, trying to----
Mr. HUBERT. You remember any other facial characteristics about him,
for instance, the color of his hair, or the way he wore his hair, or
did he need a haircut, or was he----
Mr. TURNER. He was a typical man. I didn’t pay much attention to the
haircut, but I’m pretty sure it was dark hair, black hair.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he have any scars, or identifiable marks?
Mr. TURNER. He did not have scars, but just wrinkles of age, like
Carradine does.
Mr. HUBERT. How old a man would he have been, do you think?
Mr. TURNER. Between 40 and 50, is my guess, but he had some wrinkles on
his face. He was thin-jawed like.
Mr. HUBERT. What color eyes?
Mr. TURNER. I don’t know. I didn’t get that far.
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