Mr. LIEBELER. Thank you.
You previously testified, Mr. Wilcox, that you had a meeting on or
about December 4, 1963, with Mr. Hamblen, Mrs. McClure, and Mr.
Lewis in regard to the meeting we have been discussing, and you also
testified that you thought you had an additional meeting on December 9,
1963, at which Mr. Semingsen was present. Would you care to elaborate
on that?
Mr. WILCOX. The meeting as you have outlined--the meetings on the dates
you have outlined are correct. The meeting on December 9, at which
Mr. Semingsen attended was for the purpose of confronting Mr. Hamblen
with the messages that we had extracted that were going to Washington,
or those which were in peculiar print, that had been accepted by Mrs.
McClure during the period of 1st of November until about November 22.
Mr. Hamblen, of course, could not identify any of these telegrams as
having been the message he described in his statement of December 2 and
December 5.
Mr. LIEBELER. Did you form a conclusion at that time as to the accuracy
of Mr. Hamblen's recollection concerning the events which he had
related to you and to the press?
Mr. WILCOX. Yes.
Mr. LIEBELER. What was that conclusion?
Mr. WILCOX. That this whole thing was a figment of Mr. Hamblen's
imagination. I am fearful that he was just emotionally upset over the
events as they transpired, and this may have been the factor causing
him to say what he had said about the acceptance of the messages and
the money order, and possibly have something to do with his statements
to the press.
Mr. LIEBELER. As I understand you, you were perfectly satisfied at
that time that Oswald had never in fact been in the office either to
receive money orders or to send any telegram of the type described by
Mr. Hamblen, or as far as you have been able to determine, any other
telegram; is that correct?
Mr. WILCOX. That's right.
Mr. LIEBELER. At this point I can't think of any further questions, Mr.
Wilcox. If you can think of anything that you would like to say that
in your opinion would be of assistance to the Commission in its work,
please indicate that at this time? Can you think of anything else?
Mr. WILCOX. I can't think of anything else now, but if I do, I will be
happy to pass it along to you.
Mr. LIEBELER. If you do think of anything subsequently, call it to my
attention and I would appreciate it very much.
Thank you very much, Mr. Wilcox. You have been very helpful and very
cooperative. The Commission appreciates the cooperation you and Western
Union have shown. Thank you very much.
Transcriber's Notes:
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant
preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Misspellings in quoted evidence not changed; misspellings that could be
due to mispronunciations were not changed.
Some simple typographical errors were corrected.
Inconsistent hyphenation of compound words retained.
Ambiguous end-of-line hyphens retained.
Occasional uses of "Mr." for "Mrs." and of "Mrs." for "Mr." corrected.
Dubious repeated words, (e.g., "What took place by way of of
conversation?") retained.
Several unbalanced quotation marks not remedied.
Occasional periods that should be question marks, and question marks
that probably should be periods, not changed.
Occasional periods that should be commas, and commas that should be
periods, were changed only when they clearly had been misprinted (at
the end of a paragraph or following a speaker's name in small-caps at
the beginning of a line). Some commas and semi-colons were printed so
faintly that they appear to be periods or colons: some were found and
corrected, but some almost certainly remain.
The Index and illustrated Exhibits volumes of this series may not be
available at Project Gutenberg.
Page 1: "had an acquaintance with the Oswald's" was printed that way.
Page 24: "thinking she said this latter" probably should be "later".
Page 54: "October 18, 1938" is the date printed in Testimony; Oswald's
actual date of birth was October 18, 1939.
Page 110: "ever been a subscribed to The Militant" should be either
"subscriber" or "ever subscribed".
Page 112: "examine Watts' No. 8" probably should be "Dobbs' No. 8".
Page 117: Sentence beginning "If my voice is low, young lady" is
unattributed, but in context, probably was spoken by Mr. Jenner.
Page 130: "or anyone of a number of" was printed that way.
Page 204: "through his hurrying be made" perhaps should be "he made".
Page 208: "NVD" is either misprint or mispronunciation for "MVD".
Page 273: "you know, what night or" probably should be "that night".
Page 277: "Rubenstein" is spelled "Rubinstein" elsewhere in this and
other volumes of the Hearings.
Page 282: "To be best of your recollection" was printed that way.
Page 351: "Bogard was bound to own" probably should be "found".
Page 352: "Vending machines. What kind of vending machines?" was
missing the period; changed here.