Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

The Taxicab Ride

Taxicab driver William Whaley informed his employer on the morning of November 23 that he recognized Oswald from a newspaper photograph as a man he had driven to Oak Cliff the previous day. Brought to the police station, Whaley viewed a lineup and picked out Oswald, later testifying that Oswald “showed no respect for the policemen” and was “bawling out the policeman.” Whaley’s memory of the lineup was inaccurate: he remembered six men including five teenagers, but there were actually four men with Oswald—John T. Horn (age 18, No. 1), David Knapp (age 18, No. 2), Lee Oswald (No. 3), and Daniel Lujan (age 26, No. 4). When Whaley first testified before the Commission, he displayed a trip manifest showing a pickup from the Greyhound bus station at 12:30 p.m. with unloading at 500 North Beckley at 12:45 p.m., though he acknowledged his time records were recorded only by the quarter hour and were not always accurate. While unloading a passenger from the Continental bus station at Greyhound, Whaley saw a man dressed in faded blue khaki work clothes, a brown shirt, and a matching work jacket walking south on Lamar from Commerce. The man asked, “May I have the cab?” and entered the front seat, at which point an elderly woman asked Whaley to call her a cab from the doorway.

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This chapter traces Lee Harvey Oswald’s movements after the assassination of President Kennedy—from his cab ride to the roominghouse at 1026 North Beckley, through his brief stop there, to the scene at 10th Street and Patton Avenue where Patrolman J.D. Tippit was killed. It examines taxi driver Whaley’s testimony, reconstructed travel times, Oswald’s clothing and admissions to Captain Fritz, and detailed accounts from multiple eyewitnesses who identified Oswald as Tippit’s killer.