Mr. Holmes.

three---with their white helmets, and these motorcycle uniforms rushed up in the crowd with drawn pistols. And I thought maybe they might have been shooting to frighten the people.

Mr. Belin.

Where did the noise sound like it came from?

Mr. Holmes.

It reverberated among the buildings and I couldn't tell you. It sounded like from the crowd over there.

Mr. Belin.

Anything else happen that afternoon that you think is important insofar as the investigation of the assassination is concerned?

Mr. Holmes.

I watched for hours from that vantage point up there with my binoculars, hoping I would see someone running across the railroad tracks, or maybe that I could get word to the police as to where they were, because it was like a birdseye view of the panorama of the whole area.

Mr. Belin.

Did you see anyone run across the railroad track?

Mr. Holmes.

No. I saw nothing suspicious and I am a trained suspicioner.

Mr. Belin.

I want to see what the court reporter has down in her notes.
Now. what was the next contact you had with anything connected with the assassination or the investigation?

Mr. Holmes.

I never quit. I didn't get to bed for 2 days.

Mr. Belin.

Tell as what you did that you feel might be important that we should record here.

Mr. Holmes.

Of course I was in contact with the chief inspector in Washington, who was listening to the radio reports, and I remember once he called and he said, "Well, now, could the shots have come from the terminal annex building. Has your office been shaken out, the annex." Of course we gave that attention but there was nothing of any nature there of any importance. I was doing all I could to help other agencies.
One of the box clerks downstairs came up after an hour or so when the radio reports came in about the apprehension of Lee Oswald following the shooting of Officer Tippit, and said, "I think you ought to know, Mr. Holmes, that we rented a box downstairs to a Lee Oswald recently, and it is box number so-and-so".
That was my first tip that he had a box downstairs in the terminal annex. That box is No. 6225.

Mr. Belin.

I am handing you what has been marked as Holmes Deposition Exhibit No. 1. I will ask you to state what this is.

Mr. Holmes.

That is a photo copy of the original box rental application completed by Lee H. Oswald covering box No. 6225, which he completed on November the 1st, 1963.

Mr. Belin.

Where it says, date of application, that you gave, is it not?

Mr. Holmes.

Yes.

Mr. Belin.

I notice over here in--a notation on the side 11-22-63, with some initials on it. Do you know what that is?

Mr. Holmes.

Those are my initials and they indicate that I took the original box application from the post office records on that date.

Mr. Belin.

What did you do with it?

Mr. Holmes.

I turned it over to an FBI agent at a later date. I don't know when.

Mr. Belin.

Did any particular employee ever remember actually dealing with Lee Oswald?

Mr. Holmes.

He could not recall what the man looked like. He couldn't identify him from what he later saw his pictures in the paper. He could not identify him as actually being the man that rented the box, because I have talked to him about it.

Mr. Belin.

Now, on Deposition Exhibit 1, for the name of the firm or the corporation, it says, "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" and "American Civil Liberties Union," is that correct?

Mr. Holmes.

That's correct.

Mr. Belin.

And kind of business, it says, "nonprofit," is that correct?

Mr. Holmes.

That's correct.

Mr. Belin.

Then business address, there is a dash running through there, and home address is "3610 North Beckley," is that correct?

Mr. Holmes.

That's correct. That is the address he gave as the residential address when he rented the box.