(Testimony of John P. Adamcik)
Mr. Adamcik.
they were books on the Russian language, and some vaccination certificates and stuff like that.
A lot of stuff was written in Russian, and we didn't have any idea what it said. Even the letters, a lot of them were written in Russian.
Mr. Belin.
Anything else?
Mr. Adamcik.
No; I don't recall anything pertaining to the search at all. I know that everything we--at the time, that we felt it was important, as far as investigation of the murder of the President and Officer Tippit was concerned, we took with us. There might have been some things we didn't take, but at the time the search was conducted, it was conducted more or less for each person at the same time, for the murder.
Mr. Belin.
Was an inventory made of the items taken?
Mr. Adamcik.
There was. Yes; there was, definitely.
Mr. Belin.
You put that on file with the Dallas Police Department?
Mr. Adamcik.
There was an inventory made, and there was receipts for all the property, and it is itemized. Everything is itemized.
Mr. Belin.
Anything else that you can think of?
Mr. Adamcik.
No; I know the search took a pretty good while. We didn't get back to the office until about 4 p.m., so I assume we got there probably around 11 or 11:30, and we stayed there 3 or 4 hours.
Mr. Belin.
Anything else at all that you can think of that is important?
Mr. Adamcik.
I don't know who found it. It was either Stovall or Rose.
Mr. Belin.
Officer Adamcik, I will hand you what appears to be a document from the Dallas Police Department entitled, "Property clerk's invoice or receipt." It is an inventory. It commences with page No. 11177G through 11193G, and ask you to state if this appears to be a copy of the inventory that you picked up out on your search there?
Mr. Adamcik.
Let me see if I can see all these. Yes; it is.
Mr. Belin.
All right, rather than offer it in this deposition, I believe you said that----who was the senior officer out there among you, or wasn't there any?
Mr. Adamcik.
Yes; there was. I was not the senior officer conducting the search. Probably Detective Rose, although I believe Detective Moore might have been previous, but since Detective Rose was there the previous day, he was spokesman for the group.
Mr. Belin.
Did Stovall work more with you or with Rose?
Mr. Adamcik.
With Rose.
Mr. Belin.
I believe Mr. Ball is about to take the deposition of R. S. Stovall, and I think what we will do is give this inventory to Mr. Ball and let him introduce it in that deposition.
Mr. Adamcik.
That first day I couldn't tell you anything because I was out of the house trying to take care of the kids.
Mr. Belin.
Is there anything else you can think of, officer, that we haven't discussed here?
Mr. Adamcik.
No. The only thing is, after we finished conducting the search and got back to the office, I remember the previous day we didn't take an affidavit from Michael Paine, so Detective Moore and myself went back to Irving--should be around 5 o'clock, and picked up Mr. Paine and brought him back to the office for somebody to take an affidavit from him.
Mr. Belin.
Did he say anything, that you remember, when you were taking the affidavit, about the rifle or the blanket?
Mr. Adamcik.
He did. I was present when he said it, and it is in the affidavit, about seeing the blanket in which the rifle was wrapped in, or he assumed it was the blanket in which the rifle was wrapped.
Mr. Belin.
Did he know that it contained a rifle?
Mr. Adamcik.
I don't think so. But he said he had seen it several times previous to the assassination.
Mr. Belin.
Did he say anything about why he came to his wife's residence that day of the assassination?
Mr. Adamcik.
Yes, sir; he did. I brought that out in the affidavit, and I remember something about him saying when he heard that the President got killed, well, knowing where it occurred and where Lee Oswald worked, and
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