Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you give in this case will be
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
Mr. NORMAN. I do.
Mr. BALL. Mr. Norman.
Mr. NORMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Where do you live?
Mr. NORMAN. 4858 Beulah Place, Dallas, Tex.
Mr. BALL. Are you married?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes.
Mr. BALL. How old are you?
Mr. NORMAN. 26. I will be.
Mr. BALL. Where were you born?
Mr. NORMAN. Clarksville, Tex.
Mr. BALL. Were you raised in Clarksville?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Go to school there?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. How far did you go to school?
Mr. NORMAN. I graduated there.
Mr. BALL. From high school?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. In Clarksville?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. What kind of work did you do after you got out of school?
Mr. NORMAN. Well, I remember working in Salina. I did a car washing job
at the McElroy Chevrolet Co., and after I left there I came to Dallas
and I started working at the depository, the School Book Depository.
Mr. BALL. That was about what year did you start working there?
Mr. NORMAN. In 1961, I believe.
Mr. BALL. 1961?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. How long did you work there?
Mr. NORMAN. Well, I think this coming October would have made 3 years.
Mr. BALL. And you work there now?
Mr. NORMAN. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Where do you work now?
Mr. NORMAN. The Foxboro Co.
Mr. BALL. What kind of business is that?
Mr. NORMAN. Engineer instrumentation.
Mr. BALL. What kind of work do you do?
Mr. NORMAN. Porter.
Mr. BALL. When did you leave the Texas School Book Depository for this
new job?
Mr. NORMAN. I left during the Christmas holidays and the New Year's
leave after we got off for New Year's.
Mr. BALL. In November 1963, this is this last fall, what kind of work
were you doing at the Texas School Book Depository?
Mr. NORMAN. I was employed as an order filler.
Mr. BALL. Is that the same kind of a job that Lee Oswald had?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Did you know him?
Mr. NORMAN. No; just as an employee, that is all.
Mr. BALL. You didn't know him before he came to work there?
Mr. NORMAN. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Did you get acquainted with him after he was there?
Mr. NORMAN. No. Just knew his name. I mean, you know, he wouldn't talk
to anybody so I didn't----
Mr. BALL. He didn't talk to anybody?
Mr. NORMAN. No.
Mr. BALL. Did you ever engage him in conversation at the time he was
there?
Mr. NORMAN. No, sir. I just, you know, speak to him, that is all. I
wouldn't engage in conversation.
Mr. BALL. Are you the boys that use clipboards?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. The order fillers?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. Somebody gives you orders by way of papers?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. What do you do after you get an order on a paper?
Mr. NORMAN. We had a different publisher in the building, and each
individual, he had a publisher that he would take, maybe I would take
to a publisher and the other orders would and we would fill orders and
bring them down to the first floor for them to be checked and shipped
out.
Mr. BALL. You have to go up and get the books out of cartons, do you?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes. If we didn't have enough down in the bins down on the
first floor we would have to go upstairs, to complete the orders.
Mr. BALL. Do you fill some of your orders from the first floor?
Mr. NORMAN. Yes.
Mr. BALL. How many floors did you go to that morning yourself, November
22? Can you remember that?
Mr. NORMAN. I believe I went as far as the fifth floor that morning.