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(Testimony of Garland Glenwill Slack)
Mr. Slack.
No; there were I so many different fellows working on the rifle range, there was possibly three or four boys who did it, and I never really connected which one it would be, because I wasn't doing any investigating anyway. See what I mean?
I felt like that knowing the guy and connecting it together, if I just kept my mouth shut and tried to just remember seeing the fellow, there was a lot of that done. It was done in our own family.
In other words, Vernon Stone was with me and Jimbo, he is 12 years old, the boy, and when it dawned on me where I saw him and I knew that I had my son-in-law take my gun, my custom-made gun out of Oswald's, take it out of his hand and put it in the car, because I was afraid he would steal it, and I told Vernon by long distance on the telephone, and Vernon did too, and well, he already had made up in his mind that he never had seen that fellow. He didn't remember anything, and Jimbo doesn't either. He didn't want to remember.
Mr. Liebeler.
What is the incident about the rifle? Did Oswald have your rifle at any time?
Mr. Slack.
He handled my rifle and he handled my targets, that was the 17th.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did you say anything to Oswald other than----
Mr. Slack.
The only time I didn't specifically say to Oswald. I said to all the boys, to seven or eight shooters, about that rapid firing and about shooting other targets rather than the one they bought and paid for. If they were in chair 7, and there was a number down a 100 yards, No. 7, he was supposed to shoot No. 7.
Mr. Liebeler.
Other than that, you didn't say anything to him?
Mr. Slack.
That is all I said.
Mr. Liebeler.
Did you have a chance to see the rifle that he had?
Mr. Slack.
I absolutely saw the rifle.
Mr. Liebeler.
What kind of rifle was it?
Mr. Slack.
It was an Italian type rifle, but it never showed in the newspapers, a picture of that rifle.
In other words, if the first picture that came out of the officer holding the rifle, that was on the floor of the Book Depository, if that was the gun, I had never seen that gun before, and I know rifles and I know scopes.
Mr. Liebeler.
What was the difference between it and the rifle you saw?
Mr. Slack.
The one he had was a small three--quarters, about seven hundred fifty thousandths diameter tube, a small tube no bigger than your thumb, with the windage gage. They were practicing. It was a cheap scope. Well, $5.66 scope. But it was sporterized. You cut the wood off of them. Short barrel.
Mr. Liebeler.
In other words, this rifle that Oswald had was a sporterized rifle? It had been rebuilt?
Mr. Slack.
Just as advertised. I have seen besides the Oswald, I have friends that have those rifles. I wouldn't shoot a toad frog with one of them, because I know that they are just junk.
In other words, you take that rifle as it was manufactured, and you cut the barrel off 8 inches, and you take all the wood off the top of the barrel and cut this off here, and varnish it, and have it blued, and it makes a pretty little gun. It was one that he had wrapped up and handed over the fence, but they had two other guns that type. They had no scopes on them.
Mr. Liebeler.
Was there somebody else?
Mr. Slack.
That Sunday there sure was. The tall boy had the biggest feet of any kid I ever saw, and about the time he would go to shoot, he would kick with his feet, and I said if my feet was that big I would bump somebody too.
He was the boy that drove him to that rifle range the 17th. They found the boy. He had no connection with him except he had driven him there.
Mr. Liebeler.
How do you know they found him?
Mr. Slack.
I read it in the paper. I don't know what his name was. Don't know where they found him, but they found him, and he had no connection with him no more than I had. He Just probably begged a ride and he took him to the rifle range, but they had three guns.
Lucille remembers-the boy .handing the guns over the fence, and they were throwing the guns in the back of the old model car and taking off like they did.
And I recognized that because a gun, a good gun, you are not supposed----
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