Mr. JENNER. Oh, you are?
Mr. HUTCHISON. Yes, sir; I'm open on Sunday. So she couldn't--my
parking lot is not filled every Sunday, but I don't believe she would
have practiced on my parking lot. It would have been noticed--I would
say that.
Now, I work until around 3 o'clock on every Sunday.
Mr. JENNER. Every Sunday?
Mr. HUTCHISON. Yes, sir; so it would have had to have been after then
and, feasibly, I don't believe she could teach anyone to drive in my
parking lot.
Mr. JENNER. I see. Were you aware that sometime in the fall of 1963,
that a lady was residing with Mrs. Paine who was a Russian emigre?
Mr. HUTCHISON. No, sir; no, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Were you aware in the fall of 1963, that the man we now
know as Lee Harvey Oswald was visiting in the Paine home on weekends?
Mr. HUTCHISON. I couldn't--I couldn't say that he was visiting there.
All I can say, Mr. Jenner, is that he came into the store and bought
items like--what I remember so vividly is that it was milk and cinnamon
rolls early in the morning.
Mr. JENNER. Milk and cinnamon rolls?
Mr. HUTCHISON. Yes, sir; in the morning--early. When you're not busy
in the morning, you naturally acquaint yourself with people more than
when you are real busy. I mean, when you are there and there's, say,
three or four in the store and you're checking out, you notice people,
you observe them a lot more than you do if you're real crowded.
Mr. JENNER. So, this being relatively early in the morning, it was
something that arrested your attention?
Mr. HUTCHISON. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Was he accompanied by anyone?
Mr. HUTCHISON. Never; never.
Mr. JENNER. How often did this take place?
Mr. HUTCHISON. I would say I saw the boy approximately four or five
times at the maximum that I can remember--four or five times. And it
would be a day or two or three between. It was always in the morning.
Mr. JENNER. Always?
Mr. HUTCHISON. I open at 7 o'clock in the morning, and I would say it
was between 7:20 and 7:45 because it was--it just got to be a routine.
Mr. JENNER. Does your memory serve you sufficiently as to whether these
purchases or visits included midweek days? That is, let's take Monday
through Thursday. Would there be any on those days?
Mr. HUTCHISON. No, sir; I couldn't say. I couldn't pinpoint the day. I
know that--that it was between--there would be a day or two between, or
maybe three between.
Mr. JENNER. Would your memory serve you as to whether--let's take one
day--there was any degree of regularity of this person's visits to your
market on Monday?
Mr. HUTCHISON. No; no--I couldn't pinpoint Monday. No, sir.
Mr. JENNER. You are open on Sunday, you say. Do you recall this
gentleman you have in mind ever having visited and made purchases on
Sunday morning?
Mr. HUTCHISON. No; no, sir. We do very, very little business up until 9
o'clock. They'd just be occasionally a drop-in for a, say, a package of
cigarettes or something like that.
Mr. JENNER. I see.
Mr. HUTCHISON. Sunday morning is very quiet, sir. I think I'd have
recognized him on Sunday.
Mr. JENNER. All right. We can eliminate Sunday?
Mr. HUTCHISON. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. And what about Saturday?
Mr. HUTCHISON. I'm not there very often on Saturday morning because
I work Saturday nights. So, I couldn't--I couldn't pinpoint Saturday
morning.
Mr. JENNER. And the odds are, then--let's see, we've eliminated Sunday
morning--and the likelihood is that you did not see him on Saturday?
Mr. HUTCHISON. No, sir.