Mr. Liebeler. Read the first paragraph of that statement.
Mr. Hamblen (reading). I don't think I told Fenley that. I remember telling Mr. Wilcox that I thought a party had been in there that resembled Oswald, on several different occasions.
Mr. Liebeler. Well, now the statement that I have shown you here, which is Wilcox Exhibit No. 3005, is a copy of a statement that you signed on December 2, 1963, isn't it? That is your signature?
Mr. Hamblen. Yes; that is my signature.
Mr. Liebeler. Could I have it back, please? Now, that statement says, and I quote:
"I was in conversation with a reporter at the counter and remarked to him that I was watching my TV, enjoying the Ernie Ford show, when word was flashed that the President had been shot and that I thought to myself what a coincidence it was that I recognized the picture of the accused gunman when I recognized it when he was slain in jail. He asked me how I could remember so vividly the photo and my answer to him that the picture was or was the spit image of a party that had caused me a hard time on several instances in his transactions of business within the past several months. (Mr. Bob Fenley was the reporter.)"
Mr. Hamblen. Well, now, if I gave Bob any information like that, I don't recall it now. I might have at the time that I wrote the statement.
Mr. Liebeler. Now you had several conversations with Mr. Wilcox about this whole matter over a period of time?
Mr. Hamblen. Yes.
Mr. Liebeler. Mr. Wilcox and the company conducted a thorough investigation of the files?