Mr. Liebeler. Do you remember when Mr. Hamblen told you this?
Mr. Wilcox. This was on a Wednesday following the assassination—following the shooting of Oswald. He told me that he was positive that he had seen Mr. Oswald in our office.
Mr. Liebeler. He told you this on Wednesday following the Sunday on which Mr. Oswald was shot by Ruby; is that correct?
Mr. Wilcox. That's right.
Mr. Liebeler. That would have been November 27, 1963? Thanksgiving was on November the 28th.
Mr. Wilcox. Yes. It was on a Wednesday preceding Thanksgiving. I asked Mr. Hamblen to tell me exactly what had taken place.
He stated that Oswald had filed a message going to Washington—a cash message, and it was written in a peculiar script, as Mr. Hamblen put it. It was typed in pencil. I think he meant is printed in pencil.
I asked him to immediately set about to obtain copies of that, as I was leaving town, and to get a copy of the message, and to do that it would be necessary for him to see Mr. Pirtle, our bookkeeping manager, and to get the message, put it in an envelope, and address it to my personal attention while I was in Kansas City.
Mr. Liebeler. Did Mr. Hamblen tell you anything about what the message said or to whom it was addressed at this first conversation?
Mr. Wilcox. No, he didn't. We left for Kansas City and was there over the Thanksgiving holidays.