PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
STATE OF TEXAS,
_County of Dallas, ss_:
I, Earlene Roberts, after being duly sworn, do depose and state:
I live at 1026 Beckley, Dallas, Texas, where I serve as housekeeper for
a rooming house owned by Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Johnson.
On Friday, November 22, 1963, at approximately 1:00 pm I was sitting in
the living room watching television about the President's assassination
when a man I knew as O. H. Lee, but who has since been identified as
Lee Harvey Oswald, came into the front door and went to his room.
Oswald did not have a jacket when he came in the house and I don't
recall what type of clothing he was wearing.
Oswald went to his room and was only there a very few minutes before
coming out. I noticed he had a jacket he was putting on. I recall the
jacket was a dark color and it was the type that zips up the front. He
was zipping the jacket up as he left.
Oswald went out the front door. A moment later I looked out the window.
I saw Lee Oswald standing on the curb at the bus stop just to the
right, and on the same side of the street as our house. I just glanced
out the window that once. I don't know how long Lee Oswald stood at the
curb nor did I see which direction he went when he left there.
About thirty minutes later three Dallas policemen came to the house
looking for Lee Harvey Oswald. We didn't know who Lee Harvey Oswald
was until sometime later his picture was flashed on television. I then
let the Dallas policemen in the room occupied by Lee Oswald. While the
Dallas police were searching the room two FBI agents came in.
The police and FBI agents took everything in the room that belong to
Lee Oswald and also took our pillow case and two towels and wash cloths.
I have made this statement, consisting of three pages, to Special
Agents William N. Carter and Arthur W. Blake of the U.S. Secret
Service. I have read this statement over and I find it to be true to
the best of my knowledge.
Signed this 5th day of December 1963.
(S) Earlene Roberts,
EARLENE ROBERTS.