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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. III - Page 335« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of William W. Scoggins)

Mr. Belin.
Do you subscribe to the morning or evening paper?
Mr. Scoggins.
I take the evening paper myself.
Mr. Belin.
You went down and bought a morning paper?
Mr. Scoggins.
No; I didn't go out. I was looking at one of the--some of the cab drivers had it.
Mr. Belin.
Did you see any television picture on the morning of November 23 of Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mr. Scoggins.
I have never until this day seen it.
Mr. Belin.
On television?
Mr. Scoggins.
I never have.
Representative Ford.
Do you have a television in your home?
Mr. Scoggins.
Yes sir; I do. But I don't--when I get home I will read the paper, and after you work about 12 hours you don't feel like fooling around with television too much.
Mr. Belin.
What number man in the lineup did you identify as having seen on November 22?
Mr. Scoggins.
Number 3.
Mr. Belin.
Did you have the man turn around, or could you--
Mr. Scoggins.
Yes, they turned him around.
Mr. Belin.
Did they turn just one man around or all of them?
Mr. Scoggins.
No; they had them all.
Mr. Belin.
Do you remember if the number 3 man in the lineup was wearing the same clothes that the man you saw at the Tippit shooting wore?
Mr. Scoggins.
He had on a different shirt, and he didn't have a jacket on. He had on kind of a polo shirt.
Mr. Belin.
Before you went to view the lineup, did any of the police officers show you a picture of this man?
Mr. Scoggins.
No.
Mr. Belin.
Sometime later, after the lineup, did any of the police officers show you with a picture of anyone and ask you if you could identify him?
Mr. Scoggins.
Yes.
Mr. Belin.
Do you remember if he was an FBI man or a Dallas policeman or a Secret Service agent?
Mr. Scoggins.
He was an FBI or a Secret Service.
Mr. Belin.
What did he ask you and what did you tell him?
Mr. Scoggins.
He gave me some pictures, showed me several pictures there,, which was, some of them were, pretty well resembled him, and some of them didn't, and they looked like they was kind of old pictures, and I think I picked the wrong picture. I am not too--
Mr. Belin.
What did he say to you and what did you say to him, if you remember?
Mr. Scoggins.
I don't really--I know he showed me his credentials.
Mr. Belin.
Did he say to you something like "These are pictures we have of Lee Harvey Oswald"? Did he use that name in front of you, or did he say, "Here are some pictures. See if you can identify them"--if you remember?
Mr. Scoggins.
I don't remember, but after I got through looking at them and everything, and I says, I told them one of these two pictures is him, out of this group he showed me, and the one that was actually him looked like an older man than he was to me. Of course, I am not too much on identifying pictures. It wasn't a full shot of him, you know, and then he told me the other one was Oswald.
Representative Ford.
Had you narrowed the number of pictures from more than two to two?
Mr. Scoggins.
Yes.
Representative Ford.
In other words, they showed you pictures of how many people altogether, how many different people, your best estimate?
Mr. Scoggins.
I would say 4 or 5.
Representative Ford.
And you narrowed the number of 4 or 5 down to 2?
Mr. Scoggins.
Down to two; yes.
Mr. Belin.
Mr. Scoggins, at the time of the shooting, did you see any pedestrians standing at the corner of East 10th and Patton, any of the corners there?
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