From www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!news.mindspring.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.comm.net!not-for-mail Tue Sep 24 21:19:19 PDT 1996 Article: 2328 of alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated Path: netcom.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!news.mindspring.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.comm.net!not-for-mail From: jmcadams@netcom.com (John Mcadams) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated Subject: Mercer Documents 4 / the FBI Date: 21 Sep 1996 22:17:48 -0500 Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Lines: 132 Sender: jmcadams@able.comm.net Approved: jmcadams@netcom.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: able.comm.net Apparently-To: alt-conspiracy-jfk-moderated@uunet.uu.net Status: O -------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DATE 11/23/63 JULIA ANN MERCER, residence 5200 Belmont, Apartment 208, Dallas, Texas, no telephone, who is employed at Automat Distributors, 1720 Canton Street in Dallas, advised she was born February 10, 1940, at Chattonooga, Tennessee. She advised that at about 10:50 AM, November 22, 1963, she was driving a rented white Valiant automobile west on Elm Street toward the Triple Underpass below Houston Street and at a point about 45 or 50 feet east of the overhead signs over the right entrance road to the underpass, there was a truck parked on the right-hand side of the road, which truck blocked her progress for a few seconds until the lane left of her cleared and she was able to pass around the truck. This truck appeared to have the two right wheels up on the curb. The hood of the truck was open. On the driver's door the words "Air Conditioning" were printed in black letters and the words formed a half-moon shape. The truck was a green Ford pick-up, with a Texas license. She advised there was a man sitting under the wheel of the car, slouched over the wheel. This man was wearing a green jacket and was described as a white male, who appeared to be about 40 to 45 years of age, and to be of heavy build. Another man was at the back of the truck on the street and was reaching over the tailgate when she drove up. This man took out from the truck what appeared to be a gun case. This case was about 3 1/2 feet to 4 feet long and about 8 inches wide at the widest point. This case was brown in color and had a handle. The man took this out of the truck and proceeded to walk away and as he did the small end of the case caught in the grass or sidewalk and he reached down to free it. The man then pro- ceeded to walk across the street and up the grassy hill toward the overpass. She said that is the last she saw of this person. She noticed at the time there were three policemen standing there talking near a motorcycle on the bridge just west of her. She advised that the man who took the gun case from the truck was a white male in his late 20's or early 30's, with dark brown hair, sun-tan complexion, about 5'9" or 5'10" tall, and weighed about 165 to 170 pounds. He was wearing what appeared to be a gray jacket with brown pants and a plaid shirt. He was also wearing a wool stocking hat with a tassel in the middle of the hat. MERCER advised she could identify this man if she saw him again. on 11/22/63 at Dallas, Texas File #Dl 89-43 by Special Agent WALLACE R. HEITMAN /rmb Date dictated 11/23/63 -------------------------------------------------------- Note that Mercer apparently told the FBI virtually the same story she had told the Sheriff's Department. In fact, I'm frankly not certain this account is independent of the affidavit she signed, or whether it was based on the affidavit, or whether the FBI agent was present at the interview that resulted in the affidavit. -------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DATE 11/25/63 JULIA ANN MERCER, residence 5200 Belmont, Dallas, appeared at the FBI Office, Dallas, and she was shown a group of photographs which included that of LEE HARVEY OSWALD which was taken at New Orleans, Louisiana, August 9, 1963, New Orleans Police Department No. 112723. After examining the photographs Miss MERCER advised that it did not appear that any of these persons had been the person she had seen take what appeared to be a rifle case from the pickup truck at approximately 10:50 a.m. on November 22, 1963, on Elm Street near the Texas School Book Depository building. She was then shown the photograph of OSWALD separately and said that this did not look like the person who had taken the rifle from the truck. on 11/25/63 at Dallas, Texas File#: DL 89-43 by Special Agent WALLACE R. HEITMAN /mac Date dictated: 11/25/63 ------------------------------------------------------ Compare her statements here -- where she said Oswald was not the man who took the "gun case" from the pickup -- to the account she gave Henry Hurt. ---------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DATE 11/28/63 JULIA ANN MERCER, Residence 5200 Belmont, Apartment 208, Dallas, Texas, who is employed at the Automat Distributors, 1720 Canton Street, Dallas, was shown a group of photographs which included a photograph of JACK RUBY. MERCER could not identify any of the photo- graphs as being identical with the person she had observed slouched over the wheel of a green Ford pickup truck parked about 10:50 AM at a point near the place where President KENNEDY was assassinated on November 22, 1963. She then was shown a photograph of RUBY, and she advised the person in the truck had a rather large round face similar to RUBY's, but she could not identify him as the person. She then was shown a photograph of LEE HARVEY OSWALD, and she stated that OSWALD was of the same general build, size and age as the person who took a long package from this truck, but she also could not identify him as being the one who took the package from the truck. on 11/27/63 at Dallas, Texas File#: DL 89-43 by Special Agents HENRY J. OLIVER and LOUIS M. KELLY; mam Date dictated: 11/28/63 --------------------------------------- .John