Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
History
Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. HUBERT. What is the most that you have won?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. $750.
Mr. HUBERT. Where was that?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Ardmore, Okla.
Mr. HUBERT. Ardmore, Okla.?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. When?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. 1961.
Mr. HUBERT. About what part of the year—what tournament was it?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. It’s called the Ardmore Classic. I think they run
it from about May to about August. It’s 8 games across 16 lanes,
handicapped from 2 to 10.
Mr. HUBERT. You won $750—which was not first place, but what?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. About eighth place.
Mr. HUBERT. And you won it under your name W. W. Litchfield or Bob
Litchfield?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, you were living in Dallas, I take it, in the last 6
months of 1963?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes; I was.
Mr. HUBERT. Where were you living then?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. 302 West Clarendon. I also lived at the Drexel House
Apartments.
Mr. HUBERT. Where are they located?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Oh, me, I have forgotten the address—Henderson and Knox.
Mr. HUBERT. Who runs that?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. I’ve forgotten the lady’s name that runs that.
Mr. HUBERT. Bertha Cheek.
Mr. LITCHFIELD. No—she does not run it.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know Bertha Cheek?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes; I do.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know what street she lives on?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes; I do—Bertha Cheek lives on Swiss Avenue. She owns
an apartment house on Swiss, but the Drexel House is on—right off the
corner of Knox.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you ever live at Bertha Cheek’s boarding house or
apartment?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. No, sir; I did not.
Mr. HUBERT. Never?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Never.
Mr. HUBERT. How did you get to know her?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. I met her through a fellow at the bowling alley—I don’t
remember his last name. He owns an electric company here in town, the
one that has the lighting for all the fairgrounds, Bob Sands Electric
Co.
Mr. HUBERT. And he operates the bowling alley?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. No, sir; he was a bowler.
Mr. HUBERT. He was a bowler himself?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you ever visit at her place?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. That is to say, her apartment?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. When?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Oh, let’s see, spasmodically from September to October
and November of 1963.
Mr. HUBERT. In other words you met her——
Mr. LITCHFIELD. In September—I’m pretty sure it was, about the latter
part of August or the first of September.
Mr. HUBERT. And you met her by simply being introduced to her by Sands
at a bowling alley?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. No; he told me she had planned on putting in a lounge
and Bob had given her my phone number and she called me on the pretext
that I might build it and run it for her.
Mr. HUBERT. So you went to see her then?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. And you went to her house?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes; on Swiss.
Mr. HUBERT. You had never seen her before?
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account