Mrs. DAVIS. He is with the Bardahl Co. He is a representative of
Bardahl.
Mr. LIEBELER. Does he live in the 1100 block of Gilpin Street?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Is that in Dallas?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. What about Mr. B. G. Moses, do you know him?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes; he is a neighbor. He lives across the street from me.
But I just don't know about him. I mean, he hasn't had too much to say
about it.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did he talk to you about it?
Mrs. DAVIS. No; in a way, he did, and well, in a way--he didn't
actually come out and say--he said, "I think I saw him." I will put it
that way. He thinks.
Mr. LIEBELER. Was this the same Sunday that you had the incident
concerning the target?
Mrs. DAVIS. He worked that week, but I don't know if he was down there
or not that Sunday. It seems to me like he was working the trap. He was
in the office, come in and out of the office, but I don't think he was
on the rifle range.
Mr. LIEBELER. On the Sunday we are speaking of?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you remember the date of this Sunday?
Mrs. DAVIS. No, I don't. I think it was around November, maybe the
13th, something like that. I wouldn't know unless I had my dates in
front of me. I don't remember names or dates too well, but I remember
faces.
Mr. LIEBELER. Was it the weekend before the assassination?
Mrs. DAVIS. Oh, yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. It was the last weekend preceding the assassination?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes; and we did quite a bit of advertising when we opened
that range. The last week in October is when we opened the range, and
we had in that month, we ran, let's see, it was 1600 and some people
through there, so you know the word got around that it was a public gun
range and was open.
Mr. LIEBELER. So that anybody who was interested in it would have known
about it?
Mrs. DAVIS. That's right.
Mr. LIEBELER. Do you have any opinion as to whether or not Oswald was
really at the range as a result of all these discussions?
Mrs. DAVIS. I really do think he was. I didn't see the man. I couldn't
say one word, but I really think he was, sincerely, because the two
men, especially Howard Price, he is the kind of person that you can
believe what he says. He is intelligent. When he says he knows a rifle,
he knows that rifle. He can get out there and dig out slugs, which he
does, and melt them down to the lead, and he can tell you what slug is
out of each gun, which I can't do. He is just a gun enthusiast and he
loves it and he remembered that gun.
But that is the only thing I can say. I did not see the man and I
couldn't say. I mean nothing except I would take his word for it. He
wouldn't be the kind, and he told us this before it all come out in the
paper, and the rifle, it hadn't been identified in the paper when he
identified it. But Slack, I don't know too much about him. He is just
a temperamental hothead. He was very hot, and they kept kicking his
booth. He said they had odd shoes on and kept kicking his booth. If
someone is knocking this desk, she couldn't write, and he kept knocking
the side of the booth and he couldn't shoot, and that made him angry.
But that is the only thing that I know.
Mr. LIEBELER. You are basing your opinion basically on the conversation
you had with Mr. Price and your respect for Mr. Price's judgment?
Mrs. DAVIS. That's right.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did Mr. Price tell you, or did you learn how these men
got to the rifle range?
Mrs. DAVIS. No.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did they walk or come in a car?
Mrs. DAVIS. Now, Mr. Price said they came in a car, this old car. I
think he knows the make of it, but like I say, I didn't see him. The
only thing--only time I saw a car at a late arrival was the night I was
telling you about that Price took him down there, but I saw the man get
out, but that is all.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did Mr. Price see these two men on the Sunday before the
assassination when they had the incident over the target?
Mrs. DAVIS. I don't think he was down there that day. I don't remember.
I don't think so. I know Jim Thompson was working that day and Mr.
Moses and my husband and I, and we never have over four, so I don't
think we was--I may be mistaken, he may have been there, but not
working for us, because he was there every day.
Mr. LIEBELER. Price was?
Mrs. DAVIS. Price was.
Mr. LIEBELER. Can you think of anybody else who might have seen Oswald
at the range, or this fellow they thought was Oswald, come and told you
about it?
Mrs. DAVIS. No, I sure can't.
Mr. LIEBELER. I don't think I have any more questions at this point. Is
there anything that you can think of?
Mrs. DAVIS. I have thought and thought, and I would give anything if I
could think of something or identify someone he was with. I think that
would be more of a help to you people than anything, wouldn't it?
Mr. LIEBELER. Yes, it would.
Mrs. DAVIS. My husband did call in that he saw this bearded man. Do you
have that on your records?
Mr. LIEBELER. Your husband told us.
Mrs. DAVIS. He went right to the phone and called, because we were
convinced. Do you know anybody that was with him that day? The man may
be completely innocent, but we just feel that he was with him because
he was so belligerent and stood around and he wouldn't talk. You don't
find people like that at a gun range. They are really friendly and they
come out to shoot and have a good time, and I have never had anyone
treat me like he did.
Mr. LIEBELER. This bearded man?
Mrs. DAVIS. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you see the rifle that the bearded man had with him?
Mrs. DAVIS. He had several, yes. He had them, but I couldn't identify
them. I could now. They like for you to discuss their rifles with them
when they come in. They think they are important, you know. And now I
can identify a rifle, but I didn't know a rifle from a shotgun, a .22
from a 16-gauge shotgun. I mean, I didn't know the difference.
Mr. LIEBELER. So you wouldn't be able to identify the rifle that the
bearded man had with him if I showed you pictures of a rifle?
Mrs. DAVIS. No; because like I say, at that time they were just guns.
Mr. LIEBELER. If you don't have anything else that you think would
be helpful to us at this point, I will thank you for coming in and
cooperating with us the way you have. I want you to know the Commission
appreciates it very much.
Mrs. DAVIS. All right.