Mr. Liebeler.

Can you remember the name of the people at the coffee company that you discussed Oswald with?

Mr. Alba.

The people in general that would come in the office during the day, as Lee Oswald himself would do.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did the people that did come in that way indicate they also had known Oswald while he worked at the coffee company?

Mr. Alba.

I hadn't realized anyone that knew Lee Oswald, or that that was the man who worked with them prior to the assassination, but after the assassination, which might be expected, it seems that anyone you would talk to knew who he was and had seen him, and so forth.

Mr. Liebeler.

Do you remember any particular people who did, in fact, seem to know him, or that you think did know him that you talked to about him?

Mr. Alba.

None in particular, no.

Mr. Liebeler.

What was the general substance of these conversations?

Mr. Alba.

Half kidding and half general conversations about, "Isn't it something, what happened?" And that it happened to be someone that was right here at work "With us at Reily, and that you knew from over here, next door."
Several people, employees at Reily, would tell me that employees at Reily had told them after the assassination, of course, that Lee Oswald spent as much time "Over at Alba's Garage as he did over here in the plant."

Mr. Liebeler.

Did that seem to be he case to you prior to the assassination?

Mr. Alba.

Yes and no; if that is any kind of an answer. Lee Oswald was sent for and called from the office on several occasions. Lee Oswald would come to the office, put a nickel in the coke machine and start paging through magazines and just lost track of time. Lee Oswald was not talkative unless he was more or less pursuing the conversation himself. In fact, if that makes any sense to you----

Mr. Liebeler.

So it seems to you then that he spent more time in your place than he should have been spending, is that correct?

Mr. Alba.

That is correct, but certainly not more time at my place than at Reily Coffee, as some might have tried to indicate to me in a conversation. But I am sure that it was intended only as a phrase of kidding.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did you ever hear of complaints from the coffee company that Oswald wasn't on the job over there?

Mr. Alba.

None other than from the men themselves that were working with Lee Oswald.

Mr. Liebeler.

You heard these complaints after the assassination, is that correct, didn't you?

Mr. Alba.

That is correct.

Mr. Liebeler.

You said that he was called from your garage to go back to the coffee company from time to time?

Mr. Alba.

There were anywhere from two to four different occasions that I can remember that someone would come in there and tell him, "Now, Lee Oswald, they are looking for you over there. If you keep this up, you are going to get canned." And Oswald would say, "I'm coming. I'm coming."

Mr. Liebeler.

And then he would go back to the coffee company?

Mr. Alba.

He would.

Mr. Liebeler.

How did this fellow impress you?

Mr. Alba.

He certainly didn't impress me as anyone capable or anyone burdened with a charge of assassinating the President of the United States, let alone any individual, for that matter. Our conversations were purely the gun magazines, the firearms themselves, and little of anything else. Lee Oswald wasn't very talkative, not to be repeating myself, unless, of course, he was pretty much leading the conversation or doing the talking himself, on the same conversation level all the time about the firearms.

Mr. Liebeler.

Did he strike you as being peculiar in any way?

Mr. Alba.

Yes; he did. He was quiet.

Mr. Liebeler.

He was quiet?

Mr. Alba.

He was quiet. You could ask Lee Oswald two or three questions, and if Lee Oswald wasn't apparently interested in the course of the conversation, he would just remain paging through the book and look up and say, "Did