Mr. Fenley. Yes; he said he knew the fellow over at Western Union, and he said, "I know he is in at Mike's, which is a little barbecue stand across from the city hall." Hamblen would come into Mike's on occasion, and George knew him.
And I said, "George, why don't you go talk to him and see if he will tell you the same thing?" And George did. When he did, we compared notes, and he had told George just precisely, as best we knew, the same content he told me. So George wrote the story.
Mr. Hubert. Did you yourself make any notes contemporaneously with the conversation with Hamblen or later?
Mr. Fenley. No; I may have made some at home, jotted down a couple of things on a scrap of paper. In fact, I know I did.
Mr. Hubert. Is that available?
Mr. Fenley. I doubt it. I am sure I have thrown it away. I was very interested in the story, but I was sort of afraid to take notes in front of him, since a lot of people will suddenly freeze up when you start taking notes.
Mr. Hubert. But to come back to the question of identification, I think you mentioned that it struck you that that was the key to the story, as it were?
Mr. Fenley. Yes.
Mr. Hubert. Did you press him in any way about the identification?
Mr. Fenley. Not a great deal. I really, after asking another question about it, saying, "Now you really feel like you saw Oswald," then I didn't press the matter any further, because I was afraid he would freeze up.