Mr. BALL. What department do you work with?
Mr. DHORITY. I work for Captain Fritz.
Mr. BALL. Homicide?
Mr. DHORITY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. How long have you been in the Homicide Department?
Mr. DHORITY. Since 1955.
Mr. BALL. On November 22, 1963, what time did you go to work?
Mr. DHORITY. Oh, I believe it was around 2 p.m.
Mr. BALL. Was that the time you usually went to work?
Mr. DHORITY. No, I was off that day.
Mr. BALL. Well, how did you happen to go to work that day?
Mr. DHORITY. Lt. Wells called me and told me to come to work.
Mr. BALL. And you went to work at the main office of the Police
Department?
Mr. DHORITY. Yes.
Mr. BALL. You arrived at about 2 p.m.?
Mr. DHORITY. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Do you usually work with another detective?
Mr. DHORITY. Yes. H. H. Blessing.
Mr. BALL. Was he on duty that day with you?
Mr. DHORITY. I don't believe so. He got shot last December and has been
in pretty bad shape. He just works sometimes and I don't know whether
he was there that day.
Mr. BALL. Did you work with anybody that day, November 22, after you
came to work?
Mr. DHORITY. I worked part of the day with C. W. Brown; he's a
patrolman temporarily assigned to that bureau.
Mr. BALL. What is the first thing you did that day after you came to
work?
Mr. DHORITY. I started answering telephones, I believe; they were all
ringing.
Mr. BALL. And did you later see Lee Oswald?
Mr. DHORITY. Yes.
Mr. BALL. About what time was the first time you saw him?
Mr. DHORITY. I don't recall exactly what time it was--he was in Captain
Fritz' office.
Mr. BALL. On November 22, did you ever sit in on the questioning, sit
in a group where Oswald was questioned?
Mr. DHORITY. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. What was the first thing that you did that day with respect
to the investigation of the President's assassination?
Mr. DHORITY. Around 6 p.m., Detective Brown and myself went out and got
Mr. McWatters from the bus in front of the city hall there and brought
him into the lineup and took an affidavit off of him.
Mr. BALL. You were with Mr. McWatters, were you, in the lineup during
the showup?
Mr. DHORITY. Yeah.
Mr. BALL. That was about what time?
Mr. DHORITY. About 6:30. I don't recall.
Mr. BALL. You two men were with him?
Mr. DHORITY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. There was some other people there also at that time, weren't
there; some other witnesses?
Mr. DHORITY. Quite a few down there as well as I recall, in the showup
room.
Mr. BALL. At the showup room?
Mr. DHORITY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Did you talk to any of them?
Mr. DHORITY. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Did you talk to a man named W. W. Whaley at that time?
Mr. DHORITY. Whaley, that's a cabdriver?
Mr. BALL. The cabdriver.
Mr. DHORITY. I don't believe that was that night--I was thinking that
was the next day.
Mr. BALL. Well, did you at some time talk to Whaley?
Mr. DHORITY. Well, briefly, I took him back down to the cab company
down there.
Mr. BALL. Did you talk to a fellow at this showup at 6:30, did you talk
to anybody named Sam Guinyard? Or Ted Callaway?
Mr. DHORITY. I don't recall the names.
Mr. BALL. But at this showup at 6:30 you and Brown were with McWatters,
were you not?
Mr. DHORITY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Was there a Leavelle there, J. R. Leavelle--a detective?
Mr. DHORITY. I don't recall--he could have been--there was quite a few
officers there.
Mr. BALL. Do you remember what occurred at the showup?
Mr. DHORITY. Yes, sir; he identified Oswald as the No. 2 man in the
four-man lineup.
Mr. BALL. Were any questions asked of the men in the lineup?
Mr. DHORITY. I don't recall--I wasn't holding the showup. I was just
with him and viewing the lineup. I believe that someone up there did
that.
Mr. BALL. What did McWatters say to you?
Mr. DHORITY. He identified him as the man that rode on the bus and
said he wasn't for sure exactly where he picked him up, but he said he
believed that he got off shortly after he got on the bus, but after he
identified him he went upstairs and looked at a transfer that Detective
Sims had took out of Oswald's pocket, and he positively identified the
transfer as his transfer.
Mr. BALL. You took McWatters' affidavit after that, didn't you?
Mr. DHORITY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Right after he had made an identification?
Mr. DHORITY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Of Oswald?
Mr. DHORITY. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. At that time, and I'll show you a copy of an affidavit by
McWatters, and will you take a look at that, please?