(Testimony of Buell Wesley Frazier)
Mr. Frazier.
Right.
Mr. Ball.
Do they sell any food there?
Mr. Frazier.
No, sir; they don't. About all they sell in the lunch room is different types of soft drinks and then near the window, the men who work in the offices there they have coffee there, you can drink coffee up there, I never did. Then you have an assortment of cookies and candies and peanuts and so forth on the machine there. That is about all they have.
Mr. Ball.
Do you remember whether or not Oswald packed his lunch, brought his lunch on other days, the days that he didn't ride with you?
Mr. Frazier.
To be frank with you, I don't know whether he brought his lunch because I will tell you one way, some guys bring their lunch there and some guys buy it there because we have a caterer service, you see, comes around about 10 o'clock the man comes around and several of the boys they go out there and buy their lunch from the catering service.
Mr. Ball.
Then later on at 11:45?
Mr. Frazier.
12 o'clock is when we always eat lunch.
Mr. Ball.
12 to 12:45?
Mr. Frazier.
Right.
Mr. Ball.
When you get off your job, did you usually go to the lunch room on the second floor to eat your lunch?
Mr. Frazier.
No, sir; most of the time I don't. Most of the time you see several of us guys sitting down at our own table and we just sit there. I say we usually go up there to get something to drink and I say I have ate up there several times but most of the times I eat with the guys I work with.
Usually we just sit down and eat, and we lay down on the big tables there and sometimes talk or go to sleep.
Mr. Ball.
That is on the first floor?
Mr. Frazier.
Right.
Mr. Ball.
Did you notice where Oswald had his lunch usually?
Mr. Frazier.
No, sir; I didn't.
Now, I say we have a refrigerator there, some of the boys put their lunches in there.
Mr. Ball.
Did you ever eat lunch with Oswald?
Mr. Frazier.
No, sir; I never have.
Mr. Ball.
Did you ever see him eating lunch?
Mr. Frazier.
No, sir; I never have seen him eat lunch. I have seen him go to the Doctor Pepper machine by the refrigerator and get a Doctor Pepper but I never have seen him, you might say, sit right down and eat his lunch.
Mr. Ball.
In driving back and forth with Oswald did you ever hear him--did he ever talk about guns?
Mr. Frazier.
No, sir; he never did.
Mr. Ball.
Did he ever tell you he owned a gun?
Mr. Frazier.
No, sir.
Mr. Ball.
Did Oswald ever say anything to you about buying an automobile in any of these trips?
Mr. Frazier.
One time we were talking about it he said he thought he would just buy him an old car, you know, like mine. I say most models like that you can get them pretty cheap and as far as going back and forth for work that is about all they are good for. I said, "You don't need a new car to be used for going back and forth. You don't need it unless you drive a good-sized distance."
But that is what he said in the long run he planned to buy one but so far as I know he never did.
Mr. Ball.
Did he say that once or more than once?
Mr. Frazier.
No, sir; just one time.
Mr. Ball.
When he said he would get an old car?
Mr. Frazier.
Yes.
Mr. Ball.
Did he ever tell you he had gone to an old car dealer?
Mr. Frazier.
No, sir.
Mr. Ball.
Did he ever tell you that. he had tried out a car?
Mr. Frazier.
No, sir. So far as I--like I say, that one time, that is as far as I can ever recall that we even talked much about anything--about cars-- except
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