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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VII - Page 306« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Harry D. Holmes)

Mr. Holmes.
He said it was in the vestibule.
Mr. Belin.
He said he was in the vestibule?
Mr. Holmes.
Or approaching the door to the vestibule. He was just coming, apparently, and I have never been in there myself. Apparently there is two sets of doors, and he had come out to this front part.
Mr. Belin.
Did he state it was on what floor?
Mr. Holmes.
First floor. The front entrance to the first floor.
Mr. Belin.
Did he say anything about a Coca Cola or anything like that, if you remember?
Mr. Holmes.
Seems like he said he was drinking a Coca Cola, standing there by the Coca Cola machine drinking a Coca Cola.
Mr. Belin.
Anything else?
Mr. Holmes.
Nothing more than what I have already told you on it.
Mr. Belin.
Anything else that you care to add to the third paragraph on page 4?
Mr. Holmes.
I believe not.
Mr. Belin.
Now, here in the fourth paragraph, which is the last paragraph of page 4, the last paragraph of your memorandum, anything else you care to add to that?
Mr. Holmes.
I believe not.
Mr. Belin.
Is there anything else that we haven't covered that you think might be helpful here and you think we ought to talk about, Mr. Holmes? Have you found now in your records the money order number that was involved in the purchase of the rifle?
Mr. Holmes.
The money order number that was found in Washington and matched the original money order was number 2--202--130--462, issued at the main office in Dallas, Tex., on March 12, 1963, in the amount of $21.45.
Mr. Belin.
Do you have any information on the money order for the pistol or how the pistol was paid for, or was there a money order?
Mr. Holmes.
No, sir.
Mr. Belin.
Now, Mr. Holmes, I wonder if you could try and think if there is anything else that you remember Oswald saying about where he was during the period prior or shortly prior to, and then at the time of the assassination?
Mr. Holmes.
Nothing more than I have already said. If you want me to repeat that?
Mr. Belin.
Go ahead and repeat it.
Mr. Holmes.
See if I say it the same way?
Mr. Belin.
Yes.
Mr. Holmes.
He said when lunchtime came he was working in one of the upper floors with a Negro.
The Negro said, "Come on and let's eat lunch together."
Apparently both of them having a sack lunch. And he said, "You go ahead, send the elevator back up to me and I will come down just as soon as I am finished."
And he didn't say what he was doing. There was a commotion outside, which he later rushed downstairs to go out to see what was going on. He didn't say whether he took the stairs down. He didn't say whether he took the elevator down.
But he went downstairs, and as he went out the front, it seems as though he did have a coke with him, or he stopped at the coke machine, or somebody else was trying to get a coke, but there was a coke involved.
He mentioned something about a coke. But a police officer asked him who he was, and just as he started to identify himself, his superintendent came up and said, "He is one of our men." And the policeman said, "Well, you step aside for a little bit."
Then another man rushed in past him as he started out the door, in this vestibule part of it, and flashed some kind of credential and he said, "Where is your telephone, where is your telephone, and said I am so and so, where is your telephone."
And he said, "I didn't look at the credential. I don't know who he said he was, and I just pointed to the phone and said, 'there it is,' and went on out the door."
Mr. Belin.
Anything else?
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