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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XI - Page 251« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Charles W. Greener)

Mr. Liebeler.
I show you another picture that has been marked Pizzo Exhibit No. 453-C, and ask you if you can recall ever having seen that man?
Mr. Greener.
I don't recall.
Mr. Liebeler.
Do you recognize that man in the picture?
Mr. Greener.
According to the other pictures in the paper, yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
Who does it look like to you?
Mr. Greener.
It looks like Oswald.
Mr. Liebeler.
But you don't ever remember having seen him?
Mr. Greener.
No; my mental pictures are not hardly as good as it used to be. You take fooling with people day in and day out, without some reason to recognize them, the next time you see them--there is a reason for it, you don't make a mental picture of every person that comes in. If he was 6'6" and weighed 300 pounds, or gave you some trouble when he comes for his merchandise, then it is likely you would remember, but a guy just comes in and tells you what he wants done, and comes back, and gets his merchandise and doesn't give you any trouble, then you don't remember. Usually I never forget a face. Now, the first picture you showed me, there was something there, but I couldn't pin it to anything, though.
Mr. Liebeler.
I am marking two photographs of a rifle as Exhibits Nos. 3 and 4, on the deposition of Mr. Greener. I have initialed both photographs for the purpose of identification, and I would like to have you initial them, too, so we don't get confused as to which picture we are looking at.
Mr. Greener.
Both of them?
Mr. Liebeler.
Both of them, please. These are pictures of a rifle. I would like to have you examine it and tell me whether you have ever seen that rifle or one similar to it.
Mr. Greener.
No; I don't remember this rifle at all. The first Italian rifle that I remember seeing was in Worland, Wyo. A friend pulled his out, and that is the first Italian rifle that I ever recall having seen.
Mr. Liebeler.
Was that subsequent to the assassination?
Mr. Greener.
That was while we were on the trip.
Mr. Liebeler.
. Do you remember ever having seen a rifle like this in the shop here?
Mr. Greener.
No; I sure don't.
Mr. Liebeler.
I have taken the first two exhibits and marked them Exhibits Nos. 1 and 2, on your deposition, and I have initialed both of them and I would like to have you initial them also for the purpose of identification.
Mr. Greener.
[Initials.]
Mr. Liebeler.
Have you made any attempt on your own part to try to figure out how this tag came to be in your shop?
Mr. Greener.
No; really I haven't inquired any at all on that. I inquired about the reporter deal, but I didn't inquire into anything at all about the tag, because I just assumed it was all open and above board and didn't go into it at all.
Mr. Liebeler.
Now we have talked previously about the three possibilities that could possibly explain this tag, and you have told us that you don't think that Ryder is the kind of guy who would write the tag up after the fact just to cause a commotion.
There are two other possibilities. One, was that Lee Oswald had a different rifle in here. And the other is that there is a different Oswald involved. Do you have any opinion as to which of those possibilities might be correct?
Mr. Greener.
No; it would just be a--
Mr. Liebeler.
Wild speculation?
Mr. Greener.
Very wild. Very wild speculation.
Mr. Liebeler.
Now, you told me before that you had been interviewed several times by the FBI and by the Dallas police force. Can you think of any questions that they asked you or things they discussed with you that we haven't covered here?
Mr. Greener.
No; I can't. It seems that we have gone into it far deeper than they ever did, the Dallas police or the FBI.
Mr. Liebeler.
Can you think of anything else that I should have asked you or that you can add that would help clear this situation up?
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