Mr. Liebeler.

Can you fix the date?

Mr. Greener.

No; no way in the world. In the first place, I wasn't here. I feel sure I wasn't here at the time this went on. I was gone from--I don't remember what day I left. I started hunting in South Dakota on November 2, and we came back somewhere between the 12th and 14th.

Mr. Liebeler.

What makes you feel that you weren't here at the time this tag was made up?

Mr. Greener.

Well, in checking around, I feel like possibly that I would have noticed it on the gunrack. I would--I don't know whether I would or not, because I do some of the repair work myself, and a lot of times I go through the guns on the rack to be repaired, and if it is something I can do, I take care of it. If he is busy, then I take care of it.

Mr. Liebeler.

Ryder, you mean?

Mr. Greener.

Yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

But you have no recollection of this tag?

Mr. Greener.

None whatsoever, until, I believe, it was the day on Thanksgiving when they came down here. Now, I believe this has been a long time and we are going into phases of this I hadn't thought of in a long time it seems to me that the FBI got ahold of him and they come down scouring through the place. That was very possible after the newspaper report broke. It could have been before, but it seems to me that that is when the tag appeared. I believe it was an FBI man who was out here checking.

Mr. Liebeler.

Well, now, if that is true, then the tag would have had to have been found and the FBI man would have had to have been here before the story broke in the newspaper?

Mr. Greener.

No; I said it could possibly be after the newspaper story appeared, but I believe when the tag was found lying on the desk somewhere, that the FBI man was here when it was found.

Mr. Liebeler.

That is the best recollection that you have?

Mr. Greener.

Yes; right now.

Mr. Liebeler.

Who found the tag; do you remember?

Mr. Greener.

No; I don't know. If I remember correctly, and I could be wrong, because like I said, you are going into things that hadn't entered my mind since November 22, along in there, and it seems to me that he had contacted Ryder and they had come down here.

Mr. Liebeler.

The FBI?

Mr. Greener.

Yes, and they found the tag on the workbench somewhere.

Mr. Liebeler.

Your impression now is that the FBI man was here when the tag was found?

Mr. Greener.

That is my impression; yes.

Mr. Liebeler.

As we discussed briefly off the record before we started, it appears that there are three possibilities concerning this tag. One, in view of the fact that Mr. Ryder is quite clear in his own mind that he never worked on an Italian rifle similar to the one that was found in the Texas School Book Depository, we can conclude either that the Oswald on the tag was Lee Oswald and he brought a different rifle in here, or it was a different Oswald who brought another rifle in here, or that the tag is not a genuine tag, and that there never was a man who came in here with any gun at all. Can you think of any other possibilities?

Mr. Greener.

That about covers the situation, it looks to me like.

Mr. Liebeler.

Do you have any opinion as to what the real situation is?

Mr. Greener.

Nothing more than I have confidence in the boy, or I wouldn't have him working for me.

Mr. Liebeler.

You don't think he would make this tag up to cause a lot of commotion?

Mr. Greener.

I don't think so. He doesn't seem like that type boy. I have lots of confidence in him or I wouldn't have him working for me and handling money. Especially times I am going off. He if he wasn't the right kind of boy, and he pretty well proved he is by dependability and in all the relations that we have together, and I just don't figure that is possible. Now I say I don't figure that. Of course, there is always possibilities of everything, but I don't feel that way.