Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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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. LITCHFIELD. When I picked out his picture, I was picking it out
because I had seen it on television so many times.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, the police wouldn’t ask you to pick out Oswald’s
picture unless there was some reason for your specific identification
of Oswald.
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Well——
Mr. HUBERT. You had called Green, from what you tell me, to tell him
that you thought that you had seen a man who looked like Oswald at the
Carousel?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Wasn’t that the reason why they were asking you to pick out
the man that you had seen at the Carousel?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. I would assume—I don’t know. I wouldn’t know their
reasoning behind it. I would assume this would be it, but when I picked
him out, I told them at the time, I made the statement, “Anybody in
Dallas could pick him out—he was on the TV so much.”
Mr. HUBERT. Did you ever tell them that the man I now know is Oswald
from the films and that I am now picking him out is also the man that I
saw at the Carousel?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. I did.
Mr. HUBERT. You told them that?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. And you believe that to be true?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. I thought it was until they convinced me I was wrong.
Mr. HUBERT. What do you think about it now?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. I said, “It sure as heck looked like him,” that’s all I
can say now. Of course, I don’t want to say I’m definitely positive it
is—I said, “It’s a heck of a close resemblance.”
Mr. HUBERT. That’s your testimony right now, that as far as the man
you saw and have described—sloppy clothes, white jacket—T-shirt
type—go in and see Ruby before you on an occasion approximately 5
weeks before the assassination of the President, that that man and the
Oswald photographs later shown you, you think that they bore a close
resemblance?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes; they do—they bear a resemblance.
Mr. HUBERT. I gather that you were more positive of the identity of
Oswald as being the man in the Carousel on the occasion we have been
speaking about at one time than you are now?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. I was; yes.
Mr. HUBERT. What has caused your opinion in the matter to weaken?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. The fact that they gave me the polygraphic test, that
showed when they asked me—was it definitely him, it didn’t show up
right, and the fact that I had told Don when I called him, I said, “It
sure as heck looks like him,” and when the police were questioning me,
they said, “Are you positive, are you positive, are you positive?”
I said, “It looks like him, it looks like him, it looks like him.” And
they come back, “Are you positive, are you positive?” And then the fact
that when the Federal agents talked to me, they said, “You know, if you
say you are positive and it wasn’t him,” it’s a Federal charge, and I
said, “Well, I’m not that positive.”
Mr. HUBERT. The Federal agent told you if you gave an opinion——
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