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[Affidavit by Seymour Weitzman]

Description: Handwritten statement by Buell Wesley Frazier, age 19, who worked at the Texas School Book Depository. Frazier writes that Lee Harvey Oswald worked at the Texas School Book Depository, as did he. Frazier was in the habit of driving Oswald home with him on weekends, and noted that Oswald's wife lived with Ruth Paine. On the week that the president was shot, Oswald asked to go home with him on a Thursday evening, claiming that he needed to put up curtain rods. On Friday morning, Frazier noticed t… more
Date: 1963-11~
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
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[Affidavit by T. F. Bowley #1]

Description: Handwritten affidavit by T. F. Bowley. Bowley states that a police officer had been shot as he drove to pick up his wife from work. He got out of his car and tried to help the officer, who seemed to be beyond help. Bowley used the squad car's radio to report the incident.
Date: November 22, 1963
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
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[Affidavit by T. F. Bowley #2]

Description: Photocopy of an affidavit by T. F. Bowley. Bowley states that a police officer had been shot as he drove to pick up his wife from work. He got out of his car and tried to help the officer, who seemed to be beyond help. Bowley used the squad car's radio to report the incident.
Date: November 22, 1963
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document

[Affidavit by Virginia Davis #1]

Description: Handwritten affidavit by Mrs. Virginia Davis. Davis states that she and her sister-in-law, Jeanette Davis, were lying down in their apartments when they heard shots. A woman yelled: "He's dead, he's dead, he's shot!" They saw an officer on the ground outside. Jeanette Davis called the police. A boy was seen running across their lawn, where they later found shells. Davis identified him as the #2 man in a lineup.
Date: November 22, 1963
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document

[Affidavit by Virginia Davis #2]

Description: Photocopy of an affidavit given by Mrs. Virginia Davis. Davis states that her sister-in-law, Jeanette Davis, and herself were lying down in their apartments when they heard shots. A woman yelled: "He's dead, he's dead, he's shot!" They saw an officer on the ground outside. Jeanette Davis called the police. A boy was seen running across their lawn, where they later found shells. Davis identified him as the #2 man in a lineup.
Date: November 22, 1963
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document

[Affidavit by W. W. Scoggins]

Description: Handwritten affidavit by W. W. Scoggins. Scoggins drove his cab to a gentleman's club and purchased a cold drink to go with his lunch. Returning to his cab, he was beginning to eat his lunch when he saw an officer get out of his car and speak to a man. Scoggins heard three or four shots and the officer fell. He reported the incident to his dispatcher and the dispatcher called an ambulance to the scene.
Date: November 23, 1963
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document

[Affidavit by William H. Shelly]

Description: Handwritten affidavits by William H. Shelly. Shelly states that he was watching the president in the parade when he heard three shots. He encountered a woman who also works in the Texas School Book Depository who was crying and said that the president had been killed. He went back to the building, called his wife to tell her the news, and watched the elevator to make certain that no one exited. Shelly had supervised Lee Harvey Oswald closely since he started working at the Texas School Book Dep… more
Date: November 22, 1963
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document

[Affidavit for Search Warrant]

Description: Affidavit for a search warrant filed by E. L. Boyd and M. G. Hall. The affidavit reads: "We, E. L. Boyd and M. G. Hall, do solemnly swear that a certain place in Dallas County, Texas, described 3508 Oak Lawn in the city of Dallas and being known as the Vegas Club and being the premises under the control and in charge of Jack Leon Ruby and parties unknown is a place where implements are kept for the purpose of aiding in the commission of an offense as defined by the Penal Code of the State of Te… more
Date: November 24, 1963
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
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[Affidavit In Any Fact by Barbara Jeanette Davis]

Description: Affidavit In Any Fact by Barbara Jeanette Davis regarding being a witness to the murder of Officer J. D. Tippit. Davis states that she was inside her home when she heard gunshots so she went outside and saw a man unloading a gun in her front lawn. She states there was a woman across the street saying someone was shot and pointing towards a police car.
Date: November 22, 1963
Creator: Rattan, Mary
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
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