I read this, Backes. And I didn't pull it out of my ass.
Mr. BALL. They brought you down to the Dallas police station?
Mr. WHALEY.
Yes, sir.
Mr. BALL. What did you do there?
Mr. WHALEY. Well, I tried to
get by the reporters, stepping over television cables and you couldn't hardly
get by, they would grab you and wanted to know what you were doing down here,
even with the detectives one in front and one behind you. Then they took me in
an office there and I think Bill Alexander, the Assistant District Attorney, two
or three, I was introduced to two or three who were FBI men and they wanted my
deposition of what happened.
So, I told them to the best of my ability. Then
they took me down in their room where they have their show-ups, and all, and me
and this other taxi driver who was with me, sir, we sat in the room awhile and
directly they brought in six men, young teenagers, and they all were handcuffed
together. Well, they wanted me to pick out my passenger.
At that time he had
on a pair of black pants and white T-shirt, that is all he had on. But you could
have picked him out without identifying him by just listening to him because he
was bawling out the policeman, telling them it wasn't right to put him in line
with these teenagers and all of that and they asked me which one and I told
them. It was him all right, the same man.
Mr. BALL. They had him in line
with men much younger?
Mr. WHALEY. With five others.
Mr. BALL. Men much
younger?
Mr. WHALEY. Not much younger, but just young kids they might have
got them in jail.
Mr. BALL. Did he look older than those other boys?
Mr.
WHALEY. Yes.
Mr. BALL. And he was talking, was he?
Mr. WHALEY. He showed
no respect for the policemen, he told them what he thought about them. They knew
what they were doing and they were trying to railroad him and he wanted his
lawyer.
Mr. BALL. Did that aid you in the identification of the man?
Mr.
WHALEY. No, sir; it wouldn't have at all, except that I said anybody who wasn't
sure could have picked out the right one just for that. It didn't aid me because
I knew he was the right one as soon as I saw him.
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