Mr. Truly. There was no check that I recall. And I am sure there wasn't.
(At this point, the Chairman left the hearing room.)
Representative Ford. Could you tell us the approximate date that this individual found the clipboard and brought it to your attention?
Mr. Truly. No, sir.
Representative Ford. Was it a few days after the assassination, or several weeks?
Mr. Truly. I think it was just a few days afterward because—now, we would have to check upstairs. If these orders are not filled and processed and gone upstairs and matched with the copies in several days there, then we go looking for the order like the boys missed them. We have copies in the office, and if they do not come through in a reasonable time, we think that someone has lost some orders, and we get to checking them. If we cannot find them, we have to duplicate the orders.
Representative Ford. In other words, if 2 weeks had passed without the order being filled according to your records, you would have instituted a more thorough search to find out where the unfilled order blank was.
Mr. Truly. Yes, sir—less than that, I would say, because we do not—our customers would probably write to us before then, if they did not receive it. But the girls on it—usually 3 or 4 days, if those orders have not cleared, they come to check about them, to see if we are holding one back because we do not have the stock, or if we have lost it, the boys have lost it.
(At this point, the Chairman entered the hearing room.)
Representative Ford. Who is the man who brought the clipboard to you?