Mr. Hubert. I think you have previously stated that you saw a man in there on this occasion who you thought was Oswald?
Mr. Litchfield. I did—in fact, I made the statement, as I was saying a while ago, when I was playing poker—a bunch of fellows from the bowling alley—we usually play on Saturday night. We started about 9:30 and the game continued all through the night—one of those $2 limit games and we were still playing Sunday, and the fellow’s wife had carried the children to church and come back and said something about Ruby had shot Oswald on television. No, excuse me, “Had shot him.” She had heard it on the radio, and so we turned on the television and they were rerunning all of this and a big hullabaloo over it and that was the next time I saw Jack.
Mr. Hubert. And did you make any comment at that time that you had seen Oswald in the Carousel?
Mr. Litchfield. I had seen Oswald on television before. I said, “That guy looks familiar,” and a few of the fellows were around, and I don’t remember where I said it there at the poker game, but somebody said, “I think I’ve seen that Oswald around somewhere,” and I made the statement, “Yes, I think I have seen him too,” and that was the extent of it. Nothing more was said.
Mr. Hubert. Was that statement you made that you had seen Oswald around somewhere, was it made before Oswald was shot?
Mr. Litchfield. Yes.
Mr. Hubert. Did you repeat it thereafter?
Mr. Litchfield. I did to a friend of mine who is on the vice squad here in Dallas.
Mr. Hubert. And what is his name?
Mr. Litchfield. Donald Green.