Mrs. OLSEN. I had to go pick up my daughters, see, from the babysitter.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you see anybody that you knew on that Saturday?
Mrs. OLSEN. I can’t remember.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you telephone anybody?
Mrs. OLSEN. I can’t remember.
Mr. SPECTER. Did anyone telephone you?
Mrs. OLSEN. Well, I have girl friends, you know, and we probably called
each other.
Mr. SPECTER. Can you recall any specific girl friend who either called
you or whom you called?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you see Mr. Olsen later that day?
Mrs. OLSEN. I don’t know if he was working or not. I can’t remember.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you recall when you did see him next?
Mrs. OLSEN. No. Oh, we went out that evening.
Mr. SPECTER. Where did you go?
Mrs. OLSEN. I don’t know. I can’t remember. I’m not being very helpful,
am I? But it was what, 9 months ago.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you recall seeing anybody else you knew on that evening
besides Mr. Olsen?
Mrs. OLSEN. We saw Jack Ruby standing outside of his club. We parked.
Mr. SPECTER. What time was that?
Mrs. OLSEN. Oh, I guess around 9. And he was standing outside and he
covered up all these pictures or something.
Mr. SPECTER. He had covered up the pictures?
Mrs. OLSEN. I think he had covered up pictures.
Mr. SPECTER. What pictures did he cover up?
Mrs. OLSEN. Of the girls, you know, in the show. I think he covered
them up or something, or took them out or something.
Mr. SPECTER. Why did he do that, do you know?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you talk to Mr. Ruby on that occasion?
Mrs. OLSEN. No. We just pulled in the parking lot and said “Hi, how are
you,” and he said “OK.” It was just hello and goodbye, you know.
Mr. SPECTER. Have you ever talked to Mr. Ruby since that time?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. What did you do next?
Mrs. OLSEN. That evening?
Mr. SPECTER. Yes.
Mrs. OLSEN. We went out, but I can’t remember where.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you remember whether you saw anybody that night, or
whether you talked to anybody you knew?
Mrs. OLSEN. No; I don’t know. I don’t even know where we went.
Mr. SPECTER. What time did you arrive home that night?
Mrs. OLSEN. Probably late.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you make any telephone calls after you arrived home?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. What did Mr. Olsen do after he brought you home?
Mrs. OLSEN. Went home, I guess.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you recall what time you awakened on the next day,
which would have been Sunday, the day Oswald was shot?
Mrs. OLSEN. Yes; my daughter woke me. Can you tell me what time did
this happen, the shooting, and I can tell you what time I woke up,
because my daughter woke me up and told me about it, because she knew
Jack, see.
Mr. SPECTER. Well, what is your best recollection as to what time your
daughter awakened you?
Mrs. OLSEN. I expect 11:30, I guess. Because I get up in the morning
and fix their breakfast and everything and then I go back to bed.
Mr. SPECTER. What did she say to you?
Mrs. OLSEN. She said, “Jack shot Oswald,” and I said, “Oh, no; don’t
be silly,” you know, but I got out of bed and turned on the TV and it
was just—it was just coming on, I think then, and I recognized him by
the back of his head, you know, from his back, and then, of course, my
neighbors started knocking because they knew where I worked and they
said, “Have you heard,” you know, and, oh, I couldn’t believe it.
Mr. SPECTER. What neighbor did that?
Mrs. OLSEN. Well, I think my landlady.
Mr. SPECTER. Mrs. Hall?
Mrs. OLSEN. Mrs. Hall; yes, probably.
Mr. SPECTER. Anybody else?
Mrs. OLSEN. I think Nancy, one of the girls across the way, came in and
had some coffee.
Mr. SPECTER. What is Nancy’s last name?
Mrs. OLSEN. Ernest.
Mr. SPECTER. Where does she live?
Mrs. OLSEN. She lives in one of the apartments on Ewing.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you talk to anybody else at that time?
Mrs. OLSEN. No. Because I think that was the night we were going up
to—I had never met Harry’s parents. This was another reason I quit, you
know, and I wouldn’t have to lie to them or anything, you know. And I
was hunting up a babysitter, that’s right.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you talk to anybody else on that Sunday by telephone
or in person?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. What did you do that Sunday?
Mrs. OLSEN. We went to Wichita Falls—Henrietta, Henrietta.
Mr. SPECTER. How far is Henrietta?
Mrs. OLSEN. About 160 miles, I think. To Harry’s parents.
Mr. SPECTER. On Sunday, November 24?
Mrs. OLSEN. I think that was the night. I’m sure that was the Sunday.
Mr. SPECTER. What time did you leave Dallas?
Mrs. OLSEN. Oh, about 2 in the afternoon, I guess.
Mr. SPECTER. And what time did you arrive at Henrietta, Tex.?
Mrs. OLSEN. I got that wrong. It was dark when we got there. I guess we
left later, about 4. I think we got there about 6:30. It was dark or
something, I don’t remember.
Mr. SPECTER. How long did you stay at Henrietta?
Mrs. OLSEN. Oh, about 3 hours.
Mr. SPECTER. And what time did you leave?
Mrs. OLSEN. About 10, I guess.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you drive back to Dallas that night?
Mrs. OLSEN. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Whom did you see at Henrietta?
Mrs. OLSEN. Harry’s parents. And then we visited another friend of the
family.
Mr. SPECTER. What was the name of that friend?
Mrs. OLSEN. His name was Harry. I don’t know his last name.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you visit or meet anyone else at Henrietta?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. While you were at Henrietta did you talk to anyone over
the telephone?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. What did you do when you arrived back in Dallas late that
Sunday night?
Mrs. OLSEN. Went to bed.
Mr. SPECTER. Were you listening to the radio or television before
Oswald was shot that Sunday?
Mrs. OLSEN. No; I was sleeping.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you hear any announcements on that day that Oswald was
about to be moved?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you see Ruby on that Sunday?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you talk to Ruby on that Sunday?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. After you heard that Oswald was shot did you contact
anybody?
Mrs. OLSEN. I think I called Jean, my girl friend in Grand Prairie.
Mr. SPECTER. What is Jean’s last name?
Mrs. OLSEN. Jean Simms.
Mr. SPECTER. In Grand Prairie, Tex.?
Mrs. OLSEN. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. What was the purpose of contacting her?
Mrs. OLSEN. Well, about Jack, you know, what a shock it was.
Mr. SPECTER. Why did you call her?
Mrs. OLSEN. She was my closest friend.
Mr. SPECTER. Was there any specific purpose in calling her?
Mrs. OLSEN. No; it was—you know, when somebody you work for does
something like this you just want to talk to someone, you know.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you call anybody else?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. Did anybody else call you?
Mrs. OLSEN. Not that I can remember. There might have been a girl
friend or something.
Mr. SPECTER. And did you ever go back to the Carousel Club after that
Sunday?
Mrs. OLSEN. We went up New Year’s Eve for a few minutes just to see
some of the girls that worked up there, and it was a real terrible
atmosphere. We didn’t stay long.
Mr. SPECTER. Of course, Mr. Ruby wasn’t there at that time?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you ever go back to work at the Carousel Club after
Oswald was shot?
Mrs. OLSEN. No.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you go back to the Carousel Club to get your clothes?
Mrs. OLSEN. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. When did you do that?
Mrs. OLSEN. When?
Mr. SPECTER. Yes.
Mrs. OLSEN. When I got the clearance from the union, he said it was all
right.
Mr. SPECTER. Whom did you deal with to get the clearance from the union?
Mrs. OLSEN. Tom Palmer.
Mr. SPECTER. How do you spell his last name?
Mrs. OLSEN. P-a-l-m-e-r.
Mr. SPECTER. And when did you get the clearance from Mr. Palmer?
Mrs. OLSEN. Well, I didn’t work for a couple of weeks there, so it was
over that period, you know, a couple of weeks.
Mr. SPECTER. When is your best recollection, then, as to when you went
back to the club to get your clothes?
Mrs. OLSEN. Oh, I guess a week later.
Mr. SPECTER. Whom did you see?
Mrs. OLSEN. The bartender let me in.
Mr. SPECTER. What was his name?
Mrs. OLSEN. Andrew.
Mr. SPECTER. What did you say to him, if anything?
Mrs. OLSEN. Well, he didn’t have too much to say to me. I think they
thought I was a traitor for not sticking with them, you know.
Mr. SPECTER. Were you crying at the time?
Mrs. OLSEN. Yes; I think I was.
Mr. SPECTER. Why were you crying?
Mrs. OLSEN. I felt sorry for Jack at that time, if I remember rightly.