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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XV - Page 444« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Kenneth Lawry Dowe)

Mr. Griffin.
Is there any particular thing that you did on the day that you saw Ruby which you associate in your mind with the President's arrival, or the day before the President's arrival?
Mr. Hansen.
I have tried so hard to think of something that would make me know definitely which day it was. I have tried everything in the world to think of something that would make me think of something that would make me sure of what day it was, and I swear I can't for the world of me.
I have thought of everything in the world of what I did, and I just had no reason to remember all this. If I had a reason, naturally that stuff would roll right back to you, but when you have no reason to remember, it is kind of hard to remember.
Mr. Griffin.
Let me ask you, after the President passed the place that you were stationed on Main Street, what did you do?
Mr. Hansen.
I stayed right there.
Mr. Griffin.
Did you remain on duty the rest of the day?
Mr. Hansen.
I remained there until 6 o'clock, about 10 minutes to 6 that evening.
Mr. Griffin.
What did you do that night?
Mr. Hansen.
I guess I went home. I don't even remember. Yes; I went home.
Mr. Griffin.
Where were you living at that time?
Mr. Hansen.
At the time the President was shot, I was living at 1107 Mort Terrace, Arlington.
Mr. Griffin.
Did you work on Saturday?
Mr. Hansen.
No; Saturday and Sunday is our regular days off. I have an extra job on Saturday. I think I come to work that following Saturday at my extra job.
Mr. Griffin.
Where were you working?
Mr. Hansen.
I believe, if I am not mistaken, I don't always work on Saturday, I worked three or four Saturdays, and then lay off and let another fellow work. I work at H. L. Green's, which was formerly a 5- and 10-cent store. Now it is a dollar and 5-cent store. Kind of slow down stealing, and I believe I worked there that following. Saturday.
Mr. Griffin.
Did you have occasion to--do you know George Senator?
Mr. Hansen.
Yes; I knew George.
Mr. Griffin.
Did you have occasion to see George Senator at any time on November 22 or November 23?
Mr. Hansen.
I know I didn't see him on the 22d. Now, I may have seen him on the 23d. The reason I wouldn't remember this--let me go into this and clear it up with you all.
George sold postcards and novelties of various things to drug stores and places, and he had a little red, I think it was, a Volkswagen, and he replaced these postcards in the Walgreen Store at Main and Akard, and also one in the Adolphus Hotel. He used to come around the corner and we had a parking place where if you loaded or unloaded a truck, could park, but not passenger cars. And George used to pull in and he would service this rack with the postcards. It was very few days that George's truck wasn't in there sometime during the morning peddling his stuff around that end of town, so he may have been there the day before the parade.
I wouldn't have any reason to remember that particularly, because I saw the truck so much.
Mr. Griffin.
The day after the parade is what I am talking about.
Mr. Hansen.
The day after the parade would be Saturday?
Mr. Griffin.
Yes.
Mr. Hansen.
Saturday I am not down on that part of town. When I come up to H. L. Green, it is up on the next corner of Ervay and Main, and I wouldn't have noticed.
Mr. Griffin.
You don't remember seeing George on Saturday, George Senator?
Mr. Hansen.
I might have seen him. Now, he comes down there and eats at the Eatwell Restaurant, and also to the Chefette on the side of the Adolphus Building. In fact, I have had coffee with him. Didn't have any reason not to. But whether I saw him that day or not, I am trying to remember whether I did or not--I may have saw him, but I couldn't say for sure. I don't think so.
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