Mr. ADAMCIK. I don't remember exactly what he said, and he liked it
okay, and that is just about it.
Mr. BELIN. Did you talk about the assassination at all?
Mr. ADAMCIK. No; it wasn't anything at all concerned with the
assassination.
Mr. BELIN. Did you ask him any questions?
Mr. ADAMCIK. We did.
Mr. BELIN. Like what kind of questions?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Like where were you at the time this assassination
occurred; and he just wouldn't say anything.
Mr. BELIN. Did he just keep quiet?
Mr. ADAMCIK. He just sat there and stared straight ahead.
Mr. BELIN. Didn't talk at all?
Mr. ADAMCIK. No.
Mr. BELIN. Did he ask for an attorney while you were there?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Not in my presence.
Mr. BELIN. Did you ask him any questions about Officer Tippit's murder?
Mr. ADAMCIK. No; I don't believe that I did.
Mr. BELIN. Anyone else there that did?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I didn't hear anybody.
Mr. BELIN. All right, then what happened?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Well, I just stayed at the office until about 2 o'clock in
the morning.
Mr. BELIN. Ever see Oswald again?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I seen him being led out of the office from the interview,
I believe. I didn't go down there.
Mr. BELIN. What interview?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I think they had--I don't know whether it was an interview
or some kind of press conference down in the assembly room.
Mr. BELIN. When would that have been?
Mr. ADAMCIK. It would have been about midnight.
Mr. BELIN. Do you know if Oswald requested it or if someone else did?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I don't recall.
Mr. BELIN. Then what happened?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I stayed in the office after Captain Fritz and the other
men came back. He told us to go on home and come back the next morning
about 10 o'clock.
Mr. BELIN. Then what happened?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Well, I went home, and about 10 or shortly before 10,
I came in, and Captain Fritz asked Detectives Rose and Stovall; and
Detective Moore--at this time he was a regular partner of Rose and
Stovall--asked me, since I was there the previous day, to go along back
to Mrs. Paine's house for a little more complete search.
Mr. BELIN. Did you have a search warrant at this time?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Yes; we stopped by and got a search warrant from Judge Joe
B. Brown, Jr., over in Oak Cliff, and came by his house and picked up
the search warrant.
Mr. BELIN. What did you do when you got to the house?
Mr. ADAMCIK. We got out to the house. I didn't have a search warrant.
One of the other detectives did. They told us to come on in, and they
were there.
I remember at the time we came in, that they were going grocery
shopping, and they left and just told us to look at anything we wanted
to.
Mr. BELIN. The previous day had you taken anything out of the house?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I didn't.
Mr. BELIN. Did any of the officers take anything out of the house?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Yes; some of the other officers did.
Mr. BELIN. What did they take?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I don't recall. I believe they took some camera equipment.
It might have been a movie camera or projector. I didn't take anything.
I know they took some items.
Mr. BELIN. Anything else that you remember?
Mr. ADAMCIK. No; there weren't too many items the first day.
Mr. BELIN. What about the second day?
Mr. ADAMCIK. The second day we made a pretty complete search. We went
mainly in the garage. We had also an Irving police officer. It was, I
think, Detective McCabe from the Irving police department. And we went
through the house and garage.
Mr. BELIN. What did you take with you?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Well, we picked up--I got a list of it, also, which we
turned over to the FBI, but we picked up items such as letters and
pictures and oh, just a whole bunch of items.
Mr. BELIN. Did you find the picture of Oswald with the rifle?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I didn't find it. It was found while I was back in the
garage.
Mr. BELIN. That was found in the garage?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Right.
Mr. BELIN. Any comments about that at all?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Naturally, when somebody found it, we all looked at it,
and everybody said, "That looks like the rifle that was used in the
assassination."
Mr. BELIN. Was Mrs. Paine or Mrs. Oswald there?
Mr. ADAMCIK. No. At that time they weren't there. They were grocery
shopping.
Mr. BELIN. Did you show the picture to them later on?
Mr. ADAMCIK. The picture was shown to them, but it wasn't there at the
scene, and it was shown at the office, I understand.
Mr. BELIN. You weren't there when it was done?
Mr. ADAMCIK. No; I wasn't.
Mr. BELIN. Anything else?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Well, no other than--I didn't even begin to tell you what
all we found. It was books and pictures and they found some of his
stuff from the Marine Corps when he was in the Marine Corps, and a lot
of Russian, I think 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 knowing his background, well, he said that Oswald's name
came into his mind immediately.
Mr. BELIN. Did he say it came into his mind?
Mr. ADAMCIK. He said, knowing about his background and all--I remember
just about what he said--that he knew that he would be asked to be
considered a suspect, and--or that we would consider him a suspect,
something. He didn't say who, but the way the situation was.
Mr. BELIN. Did he say what it was in his background that would make him
considered to be a suspect?
Mr. ADAMCIK. It is in the affidavit, and I can't remember what he
said. Whether he said it was because he was in Russia at one time, or
something about him being a Russian citizen, or whether it was because
for some other reason.
Anyway, it is in the affidavit. I can't think exactly what he said. It
is worded pretty well, because he signed the affidavit and it is in his
words. I can look at it.
Mr. BELIN. Here is an affidavit that appears to be signed by Michael
Paine. He says that he felt concern for his wife, is that correct?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Right; he did say that.
Mr. BELIN. He says that he saw a heavy pipelike object wrapped in a
blanket, tied with a string. Is that what he said?
Mr. ADAMCIK. That is what he said.
Mr. BELIN. He said, "I picked it up to get it out of the way of the
powersaw."
Mr. ADAMCIK. That is what he said.
Mr. BELIN. Did he say he had a lot of tools, and he mentioned he picked
up this object and put it out of the way of his powersaw?
Mr. ADAMCIK. That's right.
Mr. BELIN. And it says in the affidavit he thought it was tenting
equipment. Is that what he said?
Mr. ADAMCIK. That's right.
Mr. BELIN. He says later in the affidavit that he heard the President
was shot while he was at work, is that correct?
Mr. ADAMCIK. That's correct.
Mr. BELIN. He said he heard the shots were from the Texas School Book
Depository, and he said that he knew that Oswald worked there, and
immediately thought of him, and wondered if he might have shot the
President?
Mr. ADAMCIK. That is what he said.
Mr. BELIN. He says he wondered if he should call the FBI. Is that what
he says in the affidavit?
Mr. ADAMCIK. That's right, exactly.
Mr. BELIN. He says he thought it unlikely that he shot the President.
Did he say that he thought it was unlikely that Oswald shot the
President?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Yes; he said that. And then he explained why he didn't
call the FBI. He said he figured that--he did mention that the FBI knew
about Oswald and that they would probably have contacted him and would
consider him a suspect without him having to call them.
Mr. BELIN. Did he say why the FBI knew about Oswald?
Mr. ADAMCIK. No; he didn't.
Mr. BELIN. Anything else you can think of, sir?
Mr. ADAMCIK. No; I believe that is it. After we picked him up and took
this affidavit just shortly after, I went on home and that was the end
of it, until Sunday. Sunday I was off, and everything happened down
there, luckily.
Mr. BELIN. Luckily you were off?
Mr. ADAMCIK. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Sir; we want to thank you for your cooperation for coming
down here. You have an opportunity to either let the deposition go
directly to Washington, or you can come back and read it and sign
it. You can waive the signing, or come back and read it and sign it,
whatever you want to do.
Mr. ADAMCIK. About how long would it be before it is ready?
Mr. BELIN. Several days. You want to sign, or just let her send it on
to us?
Mr. ADAMCIK. I would kind of like to look at it.
Mr. BELIN. All right, this lady will get in touch with you and you can
take a look at it.
Mr. ADAMCIK. Okay.