(Testimony of Nelson Delgado)
Mr. Liebeler.
Did you win any of the money?
Mr. Delgado.
Oh, yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
How many of the Marines won?
Mr. Delgado.
Just five of us.
Mr. Liebeler.
Just five?
Mr. Delgado.
Right.
Mr. Liebeler.
And which one were you?
Mr. Delgado.
I was---I shot about 192. I came in about third.
Mr. Liebeler.
My recollection of the rifle range from the time I was in the is that sometimes the scores that were reported---
Mr. Delgado.
Were erroneous.
Mr. Liebeler.
Were erroneous. Has that been your experience also?
Mr. Delgado.
Oh, yes; if there is not close supervision. By this, that you have your buddy in back of you, he could be penciling in your score; if you get a 4, he will put a 5 in there. It doesn't work that way if you go to fire for record, like we did, because they have an NCO line and they got a pit NCO. Now they have a man at that target down there keeping score, and they also have a man back here keeping score, and when both those score cards are turned into the line officer, they both better correspond, and you have no way of communicating with the man down the pit.
Mr. Liebeler.
Was that the way it was handled when you fired this time?
Mr. Delgado.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
So there was very little, if any, chance that Oswald's score could have been fixed up; is that correct?
Mr. Delgado.
The only time you could fix up the score, when you go down for just straight firing, what they call battery column firing, and there is nobody to supervise, you pencil yourself. The Marines is pretty strict about that when you go for line firing. They want both scorecards to correspond with each other.
Mr. Liebeler.
Is this the only time that you fired----
Mr. Delgado.
Right.
Mr. Liebeler.
With Oswald during the time that you were stationed at Santa Ana?
Mr. Delgado.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
You mentioned before in your testimony that you had been interviewed prior to this time?
Mr. Delgado.
Yes.
Mr. Liebeler.
By whom?
Mr. Delgado.
FBI agents.
Mr. Liebeler.
Do you remember their names?
Mr. Delgado.
No; I don't.
Mr. Liebeler.
Do you remember approximately when they talked to you?
Mr. Delgado.
They talked to me about five times.
Mr. Liebeler.
About five times?
Mr. Delgado.
Right.
Mr. Liebeler.
Could it have been three times?
Mr. Delgado.
One is at home, twice in the battery--no, four times, because they visited me once at home, twice at the battery. the same fellow; then he brought another man in. Yes; four times. Two different fellows. And one time one was a Spanish--I don't know, I guess he was a Spanish interpreter.
Mr. Liebeler.
He spoke Spanish?
Mr. Delgado.
He spoke Castilian Spanish.
Mr. Liebeler.
Castilian Spanish?
Mr. Delgado.
Right.
Mr. Liebeler.
That is a different kind of Spanish from the kind you speak?
Mr. Delgado.
All right. He could go out here in New York City and go down in Spanish Harlem and he would be lost. I mean it would be all right if 90 percent of the Spanish people down there were college graduates, they could understand him. They don't speak that type of Spanish there, nor do they speak it in a lot of other Spanish countries. It's like speaking the English as spoken in England, you know. You can't expect a man from Georgia to try and understand a man from England the way he speaks pure English.
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