Mr. BALL. Close to Lamar?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Yes, close.
Mr. BALL. How close?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Well, I couldn't say.
Mr. BALL. Within a half block, or block?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No; within a block.
Mr. BALL. About a block from Lamar, you think?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Uh-huh.
Mr. BALL. It was approaching Lamar, wasn't it?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Uh-huh.
Mr. BALL. When did you first notify the police that you believe you'd
seen Oswald?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. When I got home, first thing I did I went next door
and told them the President had been shot, and so she turned on the
radio and I went in and called my son and said the President had
been shot, and he said, "Why, he has got killed." Well, I turned on
the radio--television--and we heard ambulances and going around and
them, and so, I didn't pay any attention. I wanted to hear about the
President and there was a little boy came in that room in the back and
he turned it on, and we listened and hear about Mr. Tippen [sic] being
shot, and it didn't dawn on me, and I said--told his name as Oswald.
I don't--didn't mean anything to me, so, I wanted to hear about the
President, only one I was interested in, so, he went on back to work
and they kept talking about this boy Oswald and had on a brown shirt,
and all of a sudden, well, I declare, I believe that this was this boy,
and his name was Oswald--that is--give me his right name, you know, and
so, about an hour my son came home, and I told him, and he immediately
called the police and told them, because we wanted to do all we could,
and so, I went down the next night. He took me down, and I made a
statement to them, what kind of--Secret Service man or something down
there.
Mr. BALL. Where?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. At the police station.
Mr. BALL. Uh-huh. Now, did you ever see Oswald in a lineup?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No.
Mr. BALL. Did they ever show you pictures?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Yes; showed me pictures of him.
Mr. BALL. But didn't show you Oswald?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. No.
Mr. BALL. Never did see Oswald after he was arrested?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Not after he got off the bus; no.
Mr. BALL. But, you looked at the pictures of Oswald?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Showed you the pictures of Oswald?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. The man down at the police station, he had a picture of
him with a gun, and said, "Do you recognize him?"
And I said, "Yes; it is Oswald." That is the one that I remember him.
Mr. BALL. Do you know the name of the man who showed you the picture of
the man with the gun?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. I am so bad about names.
Mr. BALL. Was there one man or more than one man?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. Oh, about a dozen.
Mr. BALL. Oh, a dozen men?
Mrs. BLEDSOE. There sure was a lot of them. Two Secret Service men, and
two to do this, and oh, I had interviewed about 9 or 10 or 12, plenty
of them.