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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. X - Page 348« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Frank Pizzo)

Mr. Jenner.
(Instrument referred to marked by the reporter as Pizzo Exhibit No. 453-B, for identification.)
Mr. Jenner.
Exhibiting that photograph, does there appear on it anybody who closely resembles the person you recall as having been at the door of your office on the occasion you have described, and if there is, put a mark on it.
Mr. Pizzo.
Gosh, the man I saw--I want you to know--didn't have that much hair, nor did he have as much hair as these boys in this picture.
Mr. Jenner.
The man you saw did not have as much hair as is shown on Pizzo Commission Exhibit 453-A, which you have marked with a cross?
Mr. Pizzo.
That's right, nor as this picture right here--right there.
Mr. Jenner.
Or the man on Pizzo Exhibit 453-B--appears to have more hair than the man you saw at the door of your office?
Mr. Pizzo.
That's right.
Mr. Jenner.
And the men depicted on Commission Exhibits Nos. 453 and 451 also, in each instance, has more hair than the man you saw at the door of your office?
Mr. Pizzo.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
What about the man over whose head you placed a cross on Pizzo Exhibit 453-A, that is, in respect to the amount of hair?
Mr. Pizzo.
This is more or less the hairline.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, the witness is pointing to the man over where there is a single vertical stripe, over his head--green, and has dark glasses on. It is his hairline to which you have now adverted?
Mr. Pizzo.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
Now, the other man has the cross over his head--you wanted to say something about that?
Mr. Pizzo.
You said it exactly--that resembles--the face resembles him more than the hairline it's sort of a "V" hairline.
Mr. Jenner.
So, your problem has been that the hairline and the man with the single stripe above his head more resembles him than the man you saw at the door of your office, but the physiognomy or the facial features of the man over whose head you have placed the cross more resembles the man you saw?
Mr. Pizzo.
Yes. I had just wondered if the pictures that I have seen of Oswald might have----
Mr. Jenner.
Might have colored your judgment now?
Mr. Pizzo.
Yes.
Mr. Jenner.
It's always possible, you know.
Mr. Pizzo.
But that hairline is a thing--that's the thing that hit me first when I saw his picture on television.
Mr. Jenner.
When you saw Oswald's picture on television?
Mr. Pizzo.
Yes; and in the paper. It was the hairline and the physical features of it--a clean face with the high forehead and the "V" shaped hairline, and it's easy to remember that because of the T-shirt, the bare look he had because of the tight T-shirt.
Mr. Jenner.
Mr. Davis has come in and he is representing the attorney general's office of the State of Texas. This is Mr. Robert Davis. They are conducting a court of inquiry on this subject.
Mr. Pizzo.
I see, sir.
Mr. Jenner.
Mr. Davis, the witness has just emphasized the thing he recalls most about the appearance or physiognomy of the man he saw at the door of his office a week or 10 days prior to November 22 when one of the employees he was supervising, Mr. Bogard, brought a prospective customer who seemed to be interested in a Comet Caliente, Mr. Pizzo was then the general sales manager of McAllister Downtown Lincoln-Mercury.
Mr. Pizzo.
I was assistant sales manager.
Mr. Jenner.
You are now the sales manager?
Mr. Pizzo.
I--of Hamilton Chrysler.
Mr. Jenner.
I have shown him some photographs. He was impressed, he said, that the man he now recalls having seen on the occasion--he was impressed particularly with his hairline.
Mr. Pizzo.
That's right.
Mr. Jenner.
And that the hairline of the man indicated on Pizzo Exhibit
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