The John F. Kennedy Assassination Homepage

Navigation

  » Introduction
  » The Report
  » The Hearings

Volumes

  » Testimony Index
 
  » Volume I
  » Volume II
  » Volume III
  » Volume IV
  » Volume V
  » Volume VI
  » Volume VII
  » Volume VIII
  » Volume IX
  » Volume X
  » Volume XI
  » Volume XII
  » Volume XIII
  » Volume XIV
  » Volume XV
Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. VI - Page 416« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Mary E. Bledsoe)

Mr. JENNER. The type you get when you send clothes to the cleaners and they come back on these wire, metal hangers, what-is that the type?

Mrs. Bledsoe.
Well, I imagine. I couldn't tell. Now, I--no; I didn't pay any attention to him.

Mr. JENNER. Your recollection serves you now that there were hangers, but you cannot recall whether they were the wire type or whether they were wooden?
Mrs. Bledsoe.
When he left, he just carried them off. I never did look at his clothes at all.
Mr. Jenner.
You impress me as a lady that wouldn't be fussing around?
Mrs. Bledsoe.
I didn't care enough about it. All I wanted him to do was rent the room.
Mr. JENNER. Now, you had a discussion, and you rented the room to him for $7 for that week?
Mrs. Bledsoe.
Uh-huh.
Mr. Jenner.
And he paid you then and there?
Mrs. Bledsoe.
Uh-huh
Mr. Jenner.
In cash?
Mrs. Bledsoe.
Yes; and I gave him a receipt on this book.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, he then left your home?
Mrs. Bledsoe.
Uh-huh.
Mr. Jenner.
Did he say anything about why he was leaving?
Mrs. Bledsoe.
He went to the grocery store. No, no ; first he went to get his other bag.
Mr. Jenner.
What did he say then?
Mrs. Bledsoe.
Didn't say anything.
Mr. Jenner.
How did you come to know that he went to get another bag?
Mrs. Bledsoe.
He didn't say--he just went off.
Mr. Jenner.
He just turned around without any leave taking?

Mrs. BLEDSOE. No; because he was not a man to talk, you know, what I got out of him, I had to get it out of him, because it was hard to---because I wanted to see what kind of a person he was, and it was hard to get, you know, to judge him in such a short time.
Mr. JENNER. When you completed the transaction about his renting the room and you got your $7, he paid it to you, so it was agreed he had the room for a week, did he go in and look at the room before he paid you the $7?
Mrs. Bledsoe.
He was in the room, and I was at the door, and he looked at it and I said, $7, so, he took it and give me the money all in ones, $7.
Mr. Jenner.
Seven $1 bills?

Mrs. BLEDSOE. Seven $1 bills, and then he come over to my room and I---he wrote it down, and it is a good thing I had him write it, because I am kind of nervous, and I don't write so well, see, and he put it down on that, and that---
and so, that is---this is in September, but anyway---
Mr. Jenner.
Yes; I appreciate that.
Mrs. Bledsoe.
October
Mr. Jenner.
Well
Miss DOUTHIT. Let me ask her this question about that bag, if it was puffed out, or approximately what shape it was, also, as to any further conversation that she had as to his background, .how much she knows., If you are interested. You might not be.
Mr. JENNER. Mr. Robert Davis of the attorney generals office of Texas has come in, and I am not seeking to press you, but we have some problems of the highest degree of exactitude that we can obtain. And at the risk of boring you, I would like to go back to that bag again.
Mrs. Bledsoe.
Oh, that; I didn't pay much attention to it.
Mr. Jenner.
When you first saw him at the door at your front of your home, he had the bag?
Mrs. Bledsoe.
Yes.
Mr. JENNER. Was it resting on the porch, or was he standing before the door with bag in hand when you first saw him?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. I come around the house, you see, and I don't know. I didn't pay--I don't know, couldn't tell you whether he was carrying it or what, but
« Previous | Next »

Found a Typo?

Click here
Copyright by www.jfk-assassination.comLast Update: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 21:56:36 CET