Mr. Liebeler. Was it the weekend before the assassination?
Mrs. Davis. Oh, yes.
Mr. Liebeler. It was the last weekend preceding the assassination?
Mrs. Davis. Yes; and we did quite a bit of advertising when we opened that range. The last week in October is when we opened the range, and we had in that month, we ran, let's see, it was 1600 and some people through there, so you know the word got around that it was a public gun range and was open.
Mr. Liebeler. So that anybody who was interested in it would have known about it?
Mrs. Davis. That's right.
Mr. Liebeler. Do you have any opinion as to whether or not Oswald was really at the range as a result of all these discussions?
Mrs. Davis. I really do think he was. I didn't see the man. I couldn't say one word, but I really think he was, sincerely, because the two men, especially Howard Price, he is the kind of person that you can believe what he says. He is intelligent. When he says he knows a rifle, he knows that rifle. He can get out there and dig out slugs, which he does, and melt them down to the lead, and he can tell you what slug is out of each gun, which I can't do. He is just a gun enthusiast and he loves it and he remembered that gun.
But that is the only thing I can say. I did not see the man and I couldn't say. I mean nothing except I would take his word for it. He wouldn't be the kind, and he told us this before it all come out in the paper, and the rifle, it hadn't been identified in the paper when he identified it. But Slack, I don't know too much about him. He is just a temperamental hothead. He was very hot, and they kept kicking his booth. He said they had odd shoes on and kept kicking his booth. If someone is knocking this desk, she couldn't write, and he kept knocking the side of the booth and he couldn't shoot, and that made him angry. But that is the only thing that I know.
Mr. Liebeler. You are basing your opinion basically on the conversation you had with Mr. Price and your respect for Mr. Price's judgment?