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asked for a transfer and got off at the same place in the middle of the block where the lady did.
It was the intersection near Lamar Street, it was near Poydras and Lamar Street.
The man was on the bus approximately 4 minutes.
At about 6:30 p.m. on the day of the assassination, McWatters viewed four men in a police lineup.
He picked Oswald from the lineup as the man who had boarded the bus at the, quote, lower end of town on Elm around Houston, end quote,
and who, during the ride south on Marsalis, had an argument with a woman passenger.
In his Commission testimony, McWatters said he had been in error and that a teenager named Milton Jones was the passenger he had in mind.
In a later interview, Jones confirmed that he had exchanged words with a woman passenger on the bus during the ride south on Marsalis.
McWatters also remembered that a man received a transfer at Lamar and Elm Streets and that a man in the lineup was about the size of this man.
However, McWatters' recollection alone was too vague to be a basis for placing Oswald on the bus.
Riding on the bus was an elderly woman, Mary Bledsoe, who confirmed the mute evidence of the transfer.
Oswald had rented a room from Mrs. Bledsoe about 6 weeks before, on October 7, but she had asked him to leave at the end of a week.
Mrs. Bledsoe told him, quote, I am not going to rent to you any more, end quote,
She testified, quote, I didn't like his attitude. There was just something about him I didn't like or want him. Just didn't want him around me, end quote,
On November 22, Mrs. Bledsoe came downtown to watch the Presidential motorcade.
She boarded the Marsalis bus at St. Paul and Elm Streets to return home. She testified further, quote,
And, after we got past Akard, at Murphy -- I figured it out. Let's see. I don't know for sure.
Oswald got on. He looks like a maniac. His sleeve was out here. His shirt was undone.
Was a hole in it, hole, and he was dirty, and I didn't look at him. I didn't want to know I even seen him.
he looked so bad in his face, and his face was so distorted. Hole in his sleeve right here.
End quote. As Mrs. Bledsoe said these words, she pointed to her right elbow.
When Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theatre, he was wearing a brown sport shirt with a hole in the right sleeve at the elbow.
Mrs. Bledsoe identified the shirt as the one Oswald was wearing and she stated she was certain that it was Oswald who boarded the bus.
Mrs. Bledsoe recalled that Oswald sat halfway to the rear of the bus which moved slowly and intermittently as traffic became heavy.
She heard a passing motorist tell the driver that the President had been shot.
People on the bus began talking about it. As the bus neared Lamar Street, Oswald left the bus and disappeared into the crowd.
The Marsalis bus which Oswald boarded traveled a route west on Elm,
south on Houston, and southwest across the Houston viaduct to service the Oak Cliff area along Marsalis.
A Beckley bus which also served the Oak Cliff area,
across Houston in front of the Depository Building, past the Triple Underpass into west Dallas, and south on Beckley.
Marsalis Street is seven blocks from Beckley.
Oswald lived at 1026 North Beckley.
He could not reach his roominghouse on the Marsalis bus, but the Beckley bus stopped across the street.
According to McWatters, the Beckley bus was behind the Marsalis bus, but he did not actually see it.
Both buses stopped within one block of the Depository Building.
Instead of waiting there, Oswald apparently went as far away as he could and boarded the first Oak Cliff bus which came along
rather than wait for one which stopped across the street from his roominghouse.
In a reconstruction of this bus trip, agents of the Secret Service and the FBI walked the seven blocks from the front entrance of the Depository Building
to Murphy and Elm three times, averaging 6.5 minutes for the three trips.
A bus moving through heavy traffic on Elm from Murphy to Lamar was timed at 4 minutes.
If Oswald left the Depository Building at 12:33 p.m.,
walked seven blocks directly to Murphy and Elm, and boarded a bus almost immediately,
he would have boarded the bus at approximately 12:40 p.m. and left it at approximately 12:44 p.m.
Roger D. Craig, a deputy sheriff of Dallas County,
claimed that about 15 minutes after the assassination he saw a man, whom he later identified as Oswald,
coming from the direction of the Depository Building and running down the hill north of Elm Street
toward a light-colored Rambler station wagon, which was moving slowly along Elm toward the underpass:
The station wagon stopped to pick up the man and then drove off.
Craig testified that later in the afternoon he saw Oswald in the police interrogation room
and told Captain Fritz that Oswald was the man he saw.
Craig also claimed that when Fritz pointed out to Oswald that Craig had identified him,
Oswald rose from his chair, looked directly at Fritz, and said, quote, Everybody will know who I am now, end quote,
The Commission could not accept important elements of Craig's testimony.
Captain Fritz stated that a deputy sheriff whom he could not identify did ask to see him that afternoon
and told him a similar story to Craig's.
Fritz did not bring him into his office to identify Oswald but turned him over to Lieutenant Baker for questioning.
If Craig saw Oswald that afternoon, he saw him through the glass windows of the office.
And neither Captain Fritz nor any other officer can remember that Oswald dramatically arose from his chair
and said, quote, Everybody will know who I am now, end quote.
If Oswald had made such a statement, Captain Fritz and others present would probably have remembered it.
Craig may have seen a person enter a white Rambler station wagon 15 or 20 minutes after the shooting and travel west on Elm Street
but the Commission concluded that this man was not Lee Harvey Oswald,
because of the overwhelming evidence that Oswald was far away from the building by that time.
The taxicab ride.
William Whaley, a taxicab driver, told his employer on Saturday morning, November 23
that he recognized Oswald from a newspaper photograph as a man whom he had driven to the Oak Cliff area the day before.
Notified of Whaley's statement, the police brought him to the police station that afternoon.
He was taken to the lineup room where, according to Whaley, five young teenagers, all handcuffed together, were displayed with Oswald.
He testified that Oswald looked older than the other boys.
The police asked him whether he could pick out his passenger from the lineup.
Whaley picked Oswald.
He said, quote,
You could have picked him out without identifying him by just listening to him.
because he was bawling out the policeman, telling them it wasn't right to put him in line with these teenagers and all of that
and they asked me which one and I told them. It was him all right, the same man. He showed no respect for the policemen,
he told them what he thought about them. They knew what they were doing and they were trying to railroad him and he wanted his lawyer.
Whaley believes that Oswald's conduct did not aid him in his identification, quote, because I knew he was the right one as soon as I saw him.
Whaley's memory of the lineup is inaccurate. There were four men altogether, not six men, in the lineup with Oswald.
Whaley said that Oswald was the man under No. 2.
Actually Oswald was under No. 3.
Only two of the men in the lineup with Oswald were teenagers: John T. Horn, aged 18, was No. 1;
David Knapp, aged 18, was No. 2;
Lee Oswald was No. 3;
and Daniel Lujan, aged 26, was No. 4.
When he first testified before the Commission,
Whaley displayed a trip manifest which showed a 12 o'clock trip from Travis Hotel to the Continental bus station,
unloaded at 12:15 p.m.,
a 12:15 p.m. pickup at Continental to Greyhound, unloaded at 12:30 p.m.,
and a pickup from Greyhound (bus station) at 12:30 p.m.,
unloaded at 500 North Beckley at 12:45 p.m.
Whaley testified that he did not keep an accurate time record of his trips but recorded them by the quarter hour,
and that sometimes he made his entry right after a trip while at other times he waited to record three or four trips.
As he unloaded his Continental bus station passenger in front of Greyhound, he started to get out to buy a package of cigarettes.
He saw a man walking south on Lamar from Commerce.
The man was dressed in faded blue color khaki work clothes, a brown shirt, and some kind of work jacket that almost matched his pants.
The man asked, quote, May I have the cab?, end quote, and got into the front seat.
Whaley described the ensuing events as follows, quote,
And about that time an old lady, I think she was an old lady, I don't remember nothing but her sticking her head down past him in the door and said,
Driver, will you call me a cab down here? She had seen him get this cab and she wanted one, too,
and he opened the door a little bit like he was going to get out and he said, "I will let you have this one," and she says, "No, the driver can call me one."
I asked him where he wanted to go. And he said, "500 North Beckley. Well, I started up,
I started to that address, and the police cars, the sirens was going, running crisscrossing everywhere, just a big uproar in that end of town and I said,
What the hell. I wonder what the hell is the uproar?
And he never said anything. So I figured he was one of these people that don't like to talk so I never said any more to him.
But when I got pretty close to 500 block at Neches and North Beckley which is the 500 block, he said, "This will do fine," and I pulled over to the curb right there.
He gave me a dollar bill, the trip was 95 cents.
He gave me a dollar bill and didn't say anything, just got out and closed the door and walked around the front of the cab over to the other side of the street
[east side of the street]. Of course, the traffic was moving through there and I put it in gear and moved on, that is the last I saw of him.
Whaley was somewhat imprecise as to where he unloaded his passenger.
He marked what, he thought was the intersection of Neches and Beckley on a map of Dallas with a large "X."
He said, quote, Yes, sir; that is right, because that is the 500 block of North Beckley, end quote,
However, Neches and Beckley do not intersect.
Neches is within one-half block of the roominghouse at 1026 North Beckley where Oswald was living.
The 500 block of North Beckley is five blocks south of the roominghouse.
After a review of these inconsistencies in his testimony before the Commission, Whaley was interviewed again in Dallas.
The route of the taxicab was retraced under the direction of Whaley.
He directed the driver of the car to a point 20 feet north of the northwest corner of the intersection of Beckley and Neely
the point at which he said his passenger alighted.
This was the 700 block of North Beckley
The elapsed time of the reconstructed run from the Greyhound Bus Station to Neely and Beckley was 5 minutes and 30 seconds by stopwatch.
The walk from Beckley and Neely to 1026 North Beckley was timed by Commission counsel at 5 minutes and 45 seconds.
Whaley testified that Oswald was wearing either the gray zippered jacket or the heavy blue jacket.
He was in error, however.
Oswald could not possibly have been wearing the blue jacket during the trip with Whaley, since it was found in the "domino" room of the Depository late in November.
Moreover, Mrs. Bledsoe saw Oswald in the bus without a jacket and wearing a shirt with a hole at the elbow.
On the other hand, Whaley identified Commission Exhibit No. 150 (the shirt taken from Oswald upon arrest) as the shirt his passenger was wearing.
He also stated he saw a silver identification bracelet on his passenger's left wrist.
Oswald was wearing such a bracelet when he was arrested.
On November 22, Oswald told Captain Fritz that he rode a bus to a stop near his home and then walked to his roominghouse.
When queried the following morning concerning a bus transfer found in his possession at the time of his arrest, he admitted receiving it.
And when interrogated about a cab ride, Oswald also admitted that he left the slow-moving bus and took a cab to his roominghouse.
The Greyhound Bus Station at Lamar and Jackson Streets, where Oswald entered Whaley's cab,
is three to four short blocks south of Lamar and Elm. If Oswald left the bus at 12:44 p.m.
and walked directly to the terminal, he would have entered the cab at 12:47 or 12:48 p.m.
If the cab ride was approximately 6 minutes, as was the reconstructed ride,
he would have reached his destination at approximately 12:54 p.m.
If he was discharged at Neely and Beckley and walked directly to his roominghouse,
he would have arrived there about 12:59 to 1 p.m.
From the 500 block of North Beckley, the walk would be a few minutes longer,
but in either event he would have been in the roominghouse at about 1 p.m.
This is the approximate time he entered the roominghouse, according to Earlene Roberts, the housekeeper there.
Arrival and departure from roominghouse.
Earlene Roberts, housekeeper for Mrs. A. C. Johnson at 1026 North Beckley
knew Lee Harvey Oswald under the alias of O. H. Lee.
She first saw him the day he rented a room at that address on October 14, 1963.
He signed his name as O. H. Lee on the roominghouse register.
Mrs. Roberts testified that on Thursday, November 21, Oswald did not come home.
On Friday, November 22, about 1 p.m., he entered the house in unusual haste.
She recalled that it was subsequent to the time the President had been shot.
After a friend had called and told her, "President Kennedy has been shot," she turned on the television.
When Oswald came in she said, quote, Oh, you are in a hurry, end quote, but Oswald did not respond.
He hurried to his room and stayed no longer than 3 or 4 minutes.
Oswald had entered the house in his shirt sleeves, but when he left, he was zipping up a jacket.
Mrs. Roberts saw him a few seconds later standing near the bus stop in front of the house on the east side of Beckley.
Oswald was next seen about nine-tenths of a mile away
at the southeast corner of 10th Street and Patton Avenue, moments before the Tippit shooting.
If Oswald left his roominghouse shortly after 1 p.m. and walked at a brisk pace,
he would have reached 10th and Patton shortly after 1:15 p.m.
Tippit's murder was recorded on the police radio tape at about 1:16 p.m.
Description of Shooting
Patrolman J. D. Tippit joined the Dallas Police Department in July 1952.
He was described by Chief Curry as having the reputation of being "a very fine, dedicated officer."
Tippit patroled district No. 78 in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas during daylight hours.
He drove a police car painted distinctive colors with No. 10 prominently displayed on each side.
Tippit rode alone, as only one man was normally assigned to a patrol car in residential areas during daylight shifts.
At about 12:44 p.m. on November 22,
the radio dispatcher on channel 1 ordered all downtown patrol squads to report to Elm and Houston, code 3 (emergency).
At 12:45 p.m. the dispatcher ordered No. 78 (Tippit) to, quote, move into central Oak Cliff area, end quote.
At 12:54 p.m., Tippit reported that he was in the central Oak Cliff area at Lancaster and Eighth.
The dispatcher ordered Tippit to be, quote, at large for any emergency that comes in, end quote.
According to Chief Curry, Tippit was free to patrol the central Oak Cliff area.
Tippit must have heard the description of the suspect wanted for the President's shooting; it was broadcast over channel 1 at 12:45 p.m.,
again at 12:48 p.m., and again at 12:55 p.m.
The suspect was described as a, quote,
white male, approximately 30, slender build, height 5 foot 10 inches, weight 165 pounds, end quote.
A similar description was given on channel 2 at 12:45 p.m.
At approximately 1:15 p.m., Tippit, who was cruising east on 10th Street,
passed the intersection of 10th and Patton, about eight blocks from where he had reported at 12:54 p.m.
About 100 feet past the intersection Tippit stopped a man walking east along the south side of Patton.
The man's general description was similar to the one broadcast over the police radio.
Tippit stopped the man and called him to his car.
He approached the car and apparently exchanged words with Tippit through the right front or vent window.
Tippit got out and started to walk around the front of the car
As Tippit reached the left front wheel the man pulled out a revolver and fired several shots.
Four bullets hit Tippit and killed him instantly.
Chapter 4. The Assassin: Part 6.
Eyewitnesses
At least 12 persons saw the man with the revolver in the vicinity of the Tippit crime scene at or immediately after the shooting.
By the evening of November 22, five of them had identified Lee Harvey Oswald in police lineups as the man they saw.
A sixth did so the next day.
Three others subsequently identified Oswald from a photograph.
Two witnesses testified that Oswald resembled the man they had seen.
One witness felt he was too distant from the gunman to make a positive identification.
A taxi driver, William Scoggins,
was eating lunch in his cab which was parked on Patton facing the southeast corner of 10th Street and Patton Avenue a few feet to the north.
A police car moving east on 10th at about 10 or 12 miles an hour passed in front of his cab.
About 100 feet from the corner the police car pulled up alongside a man on the sidewalk. This man, dressed in a light-colored jacket, approached the car.
Scoggins lost sight of him behind some shrubbery on the southeast corner lot,
but he saw the policeman leave the car, heard three or four shots, and then saw the policeman fall.
Scoggins hurriedly left his seat and hid behind the cab as the man came back toward the corner with gun in hand.
The man cut across the yard through some bushes, passed within 12 feet of Scoggins, and ran south on Patton.
Scoggins saw him and heard him mutter either "Poor damn cop" or "Poor dumb cop."
The next day Scoggins viewed a lineup of four persons and identified Oswald as the man whom he had seen the day before at 10th and Patton.
In his testimony before the Commission,
Scoggins stated that he thought he had seen a picture of Oswald in the newspapers prior to the lineup identification on Saturday.
He had not seen Oswald on television and had not been shown any photographs of Oswald by the police.
Another witness, Domingo Benavides, was driving a pickup truck west on 10th Street.
As he crossed the intersection a block east of 10th and Patton, he saw a policeman standing by the left door of the police car parked along the south side of 10th.
Benavides saw a man standing at the right side of the parked police car. He then heard three shots and saw the policeman fall to the ground.
By this time the pickup truck was across the street and about 25 feet from the police car.
Benavides stopped and waited in the truck until the gunman ran to the corner.
He saw him empty the gun and throw the shells into some bushes on the southeast corner lot.
It was Benavides, using Tippit's car radio, who first reported the killing of Patrolman Tippit at about 1:16 p.m.:
quote, We've had a shooting out here, end quote,
He found two empty shells in the bushes and gave them to Patrolman J. M. Poe who arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting.
Benavides never saw Oswald after the arrest.
When questioned by police officers on the evening of November 22, Benavides told them that he did not think that he could identify the man who fired the shots.
As a result, they did not take him to the police station.
He testified that the picture of Oswald which he saw later on television bore a resemblance to the man who shot Officer Tippit.
Just prior to the shooting, Mrs. Helen Markham, a waitress in downtown Dallas, was about to cross 10th Street at Patton.
As she waited on the northwest corner of the intersection for traffic to pass, she noticed a young man as he was, quote, almost ready to get up on the curb, end quote.
at the southeast corner of the intersection, approximately 50 feet away.
The man continued along 10th Street. Mrs. Markham saw a police car slowly approach the man from the rear and stop alongside of him.
She saw the man come to the right window of the police car. As he talked, he leaned on the ledge of the right window with his arms.
The man appeared to step back as the policeman, quote, calmly opened the car door, end quote, and very slowly got out and walked toward the front of the car.
The man pulled a gun. Mrs. Markham heard three shots and saw the policeman fall to the ground near the left front wheel.
She raised her hands to her eyes as the man started to walk back toward Patton.
She peered through her fingers, lowered her hands, and saw the man doing something with his gun. Quote,
He was just fooling with it. I didn't know what he was doing. I was afraid he was fixing to kill me. End quote.
The man, quote, in kind of a little trot, end quote, headed down Patton toward Jefferson Boulevard, a block away.
Mrs. Markham then ran to Officer Tippit's side and saw him lying in a pool of blood.
Helen Markham was screaming as she leaned over the body.
A few minutes later she described the gunman to a policeman.
Her description and that of other eyewitnesses led to the police broadcast at 1:22 p.m.
describing the slayer as, quote, about 30, 5 foot 8 inches, black hair, slender, end quote.
At about 4:30 p.m., Mrs. Markham,
who had been greatly upset by her experience, was able to view a lineup of four men handcuffed together at the police station.
She identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the man who shot the policeman.
Detective L. C. Graves, who had been with Mrs. Markham before the lineup
testified that she was, quote, quite hysterical, end quote, and was, quote, crying and upset, end quote.
He said that Mrs. Markham started crying when Oswald walked into the lineup room.
In testimony before the Commission, Mrs. Markham confirmed her positive identification of Lee Harvey Oswald
as the man she saw kill Officer Tippit. In evaluating Mrs. Markham's identification of Oswald, the Commission considered certain allegations
That Mrs. Markham described the man who killed Patrolman Tippit as, quote, short, a little on the heavy side, end quote.
and having, quote, somewhat bushy, end quote, hair.
The Commission reviewed the transcript of a phone conversation in which Mrs. Markham is alleged to have provided such a description.
A review of the complete transcript has satisfied the Commission
that Mrs. Markham strongly reaffirmed her positive identification of Oswald and denied having described the killer
as short, stocky and having bushy hair. She stated that the man weighed about 150 pounds.
Although she used the words, quote, a little bit bushy, end quote, to describe the gunman's hair,
the transcript establishes that she was referring to the uncombed state of his hair, a description fully supported by a photograph of Oswald
taken at the time of his arrest.
Although in the phone conversation she described the man as, quote, short, end quote, on November 22nd,
within minutes of the shooting and before the lineup, Mrs. Markham described the man to the police as 5 foot 8 inches tall.
During her testimony Mrs. Markham initially denied that she ever had the above phone conversation.
She has subsequently admitted the existence of the conversation and offered an explanation for her denial.
Addressing itself solely to the probative value of Mrs. Markham's contemporaneous description of the gunman
and her positive identification of Oswald at a police lineup, the Commission considers her testimony reliable.
However, even in the absence of Mrs. Markham's testimony, there is ample evidence to identify Oswald as the killer of Tippit.
Two young women,
Barbara Jeanette Davis and Virginia Davis, were in an apartment of a multiple-unit house on the southeast corner of 10th and Patton
when they heard the sound of gunfire and the screams of Helen Markham.
They ran to the door in time to see a man with a revolver cut across their lawn and disappear around a corner of the house onto Patton.
Barbara Jeanette Davis assumed that he was emptying his gun as, quote, he had it open and was shaking it, end quote. She immediately called the police.
Later in the day each woman found an empty shell on the ground near the house. These two shells were delivered to the police.
On the evening of November 22,