The testimony of Colin Barnhorst was taken at 11:40 a.m., on April 1,
1964, in the office of the U.S. attorney, 301 Post Office Building,
Bryan and Ervay Streets, Dallas, Tex., by Mr. Albert E. Jenner, Jr.,
assistant counsel of the President's Commission. Robert T. Davis,
assistant attorney general of Texas, was present.
Mr. JENNER. Please stand and be sworn.
Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give will be
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Mr. BARNHORST. I do.
Mr. JENNER. Mr. Barnhorst, I am Albert E. Jenner, Jr., a member of
the legal staff of the President's Commission which was authorized
to be created by Senate Joint Resolution 137, and President Johnson
in Executive Order 11130, appointed the Commission and specified its
powers pursuant to the legislation I have just identified to you.
The duties of the Commission are to investigate the assassination of
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on the 22nd of November 1963.
And that entails our inquiry into various facts and circumstances and
incidents, some of them involving a man known as Lee Harvey Oswald. We
understand that Mr. Oswald was a guest at the YMCA here in downtown
Dallas, and we would like to ask you a question or two in that respect.
Mr. JENNER. What is your age, by the way?
Mr. BARNHORST. Twenty-one.
Mr. JENNER. Are you employed by the downtown YMCA here in Dallas?
Mr. BARNHORST. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. That is located where?
Mr. BARNHORST. 605 North Ervay.
Mr. JENNER. When did your employment commence?
Mr. BARNHORST. October 14.
Mr. JENNER. What year?
Mr. BARNHORST. 1963.
Mr. JENNER. State the nature of that employment and your hours?
Mr. BARNHORST. Desk clerk and mainly checking in and out guests--that
is the primary duty and my duties involve making change and the usual
reports and things like that. My hours are from 4 to midnight 4 nights
a week.
Mr. JENNER. 4 in the afternoon until midnight 4 nights a week?
Mr. BARNHORST. Then on Friday night--midnight to Saturday morning 8
a.m. every week, and every other week from midnight to 8 a.m., on
Thursday night, so I alternate 6 days and 5 days. The particular week
of all this I had worked Thursday night also.
Mr. JENNER. Were you on duty at any time so as to bring to your
attention the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was or had become a guest at
the YMCA?