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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. X - Page 214« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Dennis Hyman Ofstein)

Mr. Liebeler.
Have you lived here in New Orleans all of your life?
Mr. LE BLANC. Well, I lived in Metairie for--oh, I would say all but the last 10 years.
Mr. Liebeler.
Then you moved to New Orleans?
Mr. LE BLANC. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
By whom are you employed?
Mr. LE BLANC. William B. Reily Coffee Co.
Mr. Liebeler.
And how long have you worked for them?
Mr. LE BLANC. Nine years.
Mr. Liebeler.
In what capacity are you employed by them?
Mr. LE BLANC. What do you mean? What I---
Mr. Liebeler.
What do you do?
Mr. Liebeler.
Maintenance man.
Mr. Liebeler.
You work as a maintenance man?
Mr. LE BLANC. Yes, sir.
Mr. Liebeler.
What do you do in that job?
Mr. LE BLANC. General maintenance.
Mr. Liebeler.
You keep the machinery in running order?
Mr. LE BLANC. The machinery and different office equipment that needs to be fixed.
Mr. Liebeler.
What kind of machinery do they have over there?
Mr. LE BLANC. Packaging machinery for the coffee.
Mr. Liebeler.
For packaging coffee?
Mr. LE BLANC. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
Do they grind the coffee up too and mix it and blend it?
Mr. LE BLANC. They roast it, grind it, and then it goes into these hoppers, and then down to the packaging machinery.
Mr. Liebeler.
It is packed in cans or in paper sacks or----
Mr. LE BLANC. Cans and bags.
Mr. Liebeler.
Or both?
Mr. LE BLANC. Cans and bags.
Mr. Liebeler.
How many maintenance men, approximately, do they have working over there?
Mr. LE BLANC. Let's see; four.
Mr. Liebeler.
Four?
Mr. LE BLANC. Yes, four.
Mr. Liebeler.
Is that the usual number that they have?
Mr. LE BLANC. Yes, that is about it mostly.
Mr. Libeler.
Do you remember that Lee Oswald was employed by the Reily Company?
Mr. LE BLANC. Yes, sir.
Mr. Liebeler.
Tell us, as best you can recall, when you first met Oswald and what your relationship with him was, what kind of a person he was, what he, did.
Mr. LE BLANC. Well, when they first hired him, well, they brought him to me, because I was to break him in on his job, so I started the procedure of going--start from the fifth floor on down, work a floor each day with him to take and get him broke in on the job and start showing him the routine, .how to go about greasing. The first day, I mean when I was showing him, it look like if he caught on to it, all right, if he didn't, it was still all right. He looked like he Was just one of these guys that just didn't care whether he learned it or he didn't learn it. And then after I took and---we usually go by the week, because usually after a week anybody with any mechanical knowledge, there is nothing to it, because all it is is finding the grease and oil fittings and we put him on his own. I put him on the fifth floor and told him to take care of everything on the fifth floor and I would be back shortly to check. I would take and put him up there, and about a half hour or 45 minutes or so, I would go back up and check how he is doing. I would go up there and I wouldn't find him.. So I asked the fellows that would be working on the floor had they seen him, and they said yes, he squirted the oil can a couple of times around different things and they. don't know where he went. So I would start hunting all over the building. There is five stories on one side and four on-the other. I would cover
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