The John F. Kennedy Assassination Homepage

Navigation

  » Introduction
  » The Report
  » The Hearings

Volumes

  » Testimony Index
 
  » Volume I
  » Volume II
  » Volume III
  » Volume IV
  » Volume V
  » Volume VI
  » Volume VII
  » Volume VIII
  » Volume IX
  » Volume X
  » Volume XI
  » Volume XII
  » Volume XIII
  » Volume XIV
  » Volume XV
Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. IV - Page 142« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Gov. John Bowden , Jr. Connally)

Mr. Specter.
I show you Commission Exhibit 683 and ask you if that is a photograph of the front side of the jacket, as it appears at the moment?
Governor CONNALLY. Yes; it is.
Mr. Specter.
I show you Exhibit 684, and ask if that is a photograph of the rear side of the jacket?
Governor CONNALLY. Yes, sir; it is.
Mr. Specter.
I now show you a shirt and ask you if you can identify this as having been the shirt you wore on the day of the assassination?
Governor CONNALLY. Yes, sir; that is the shirt I had on.
Mr. Specter.
I show you Exhibit 685 and ask if that is a picture of the rear side of the shirt?
Governor CONNALLY. Yes; it is.
Mr. Specter.
Exhibit 686 is shown to you, and I ask you if that is a photo~ graph of the front side of the shirt?
Governor CONNALLY. Yes, sir; it is.
Mr. Specter.
I show you a pair of black trousers. and ask you if you can identify them?
Governor CONNALLY. Yes, sir; these are the trousers to the coat we looked at a moment ago. They were the trousers I was wearing on the day of the shooting.
Mr. Specter.
I show you a photograph and ask you, which is Exhibit 687, if that is a photograph of the front of the trousers?
Governor CONNALLY. Yes, sir; it is.
Mr. Specter.
I show you Exhibit 688 and ask you if that depicts the rear of the trousers?
Governor CONNALLY. Yes, sir; it does.
Mr. Specter.
I show you a tie, and ask you if you can identify that?
Governor CONNALLY. Yes, sir; that is the tie I was wearing on the day of the shooting.
Mr. Specter.
I now show you a photograph marked Commission Exhibit 700 and ask if that is a picture of the tie?
Governor CONNALLY. Yes, sir; it is.
Mr. Specter.
What is the permanent home of these clothes at the present time when they are not on Commission business?
Governor CONNALLY. They, the Archives of the State of Texas, asked for the clothing, and I have given the clothing to them. That is where they were sent from, I believe, here, to this Commission.
Mr. Specter.
At this juncture, Mr. Chief Justice, I move for the admission in evidence of Commission Exhibits 699 and 700.
The Chairman.
They may be admitted.
(The items marked Commission Exhibits Nos. 699 and 700 for identification were received in evidence.)
Mr. Specter.
Governor Connally, in 1963 we were informed that Lee Harvey Oswald paid a visit to Austin, Tex., and is supposed to also have visited your office. Do you have any knowledge of such a visit?
Governor CONNALLY. No, sir.
Mr. Dulles.
What date did you give?
Mr. Specter.
1963.
Representative Boggs.
What date in 1963?
Mr. Specter.
We do not have the exact date on that.
Representative Boggs.
Excuse me just a minute. Would your office records indicate such a visit?
Governor CONNALLY. It might or might not, Congressman. We have----
Representative Boggs.
That is what I would think.
Governor CONNALLY. We have there a reception room that is open from about 9:30 to 12 and from 2 to 4 every day, and depending on the time of the year there are literally hundreds of people who come in there. There would be as high as 80 at a time that come in groups, and a tour--this is a very large reception room which, frankly, we can't use for any other purpose because it is so useful for tourists, and they literally come in by the hundreds, and some days we will have a thousand people in that room on any given day. So for
« Previous | Next »

Found a Typo?

Click here
Copyright by www.jfk-assassination.comLast Update: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 21:56:36 CET