The Oak Cliff Payphone

[Bill Chapman]

Pucket: They had "One communal pay phone on the wall in the hall back near the kitchen."

I imagine they had more than one phone? And that the owners had a personal/private one and another separate one for the renters/residents.

But I have yet to see a photo of the pay phone
Any CE# for it?

[Bill Chapman]

Nice carpet. I'd say Oswalds DNA could still be vacuumed out of it.

The carpet is a sh*t-brown crumpled mess.
The chair-seat covering is nice if you like paisley.

I doubt if investigators would 'vacuum' up DNA (unless they worked for OJ's prosecutors)

[Jerry Freeman]

The PBS doc says that LHO used make calls from a payphone across the street from the 1026 north Beckley rooming house.

No one ever testified to that AFAIK.
If you take PBS and remove the P you may have just described the source.

[Louis Earl]

The picture of the phone is the same one that was in the Beckley house when I took the tour about 2 years ago.  It is not a pay phone. And, I don't recall a "hall back near the kitchen."  The large room that contained the sofa, chairs, TV, the phone in the picture open up right to the kitchen IIRC.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Both Earline Roberts and Gladys Johnson, the wife of the co-owner of the house (apparently she either owned it or the property it was on (it's not clear) before she married), testified that they never saw Oswald go out at night. Johnson said that she spent most of her evenings in the "back" of the house and wouldn't know about all of the goings of the tenants. Roberts said she never saw Oswald leave at night.

From Johnson's testimony:
Mr. BALL. Did he go out nights, any?
Mrs. JOHNSON. I just really never did see that man leave that room.
Mr. BALL. After he came back from work?
Mrs. JOHNSON. Yes; he stayed very closely but he did tell me he would be leaving to go home over weekends--no; he didn't say "home," he said I will leave to go to Irving over weekends and won't return until Monday."

From Robert's testimony:
Mr. BALL. Did he go out any at night?
Mrs. ROBERTS. No.
Mr. BALL. Did he stay home every night?
Mrs. ROBERTS. Yes---he stayed home every night---I didn't ever know of him going out. If he did, he left after I went to bed and I never knew.

If Oswald did go out to use the pay phone across the street - and according to Marina he regularly called her after work - it seems that Roberts would have seen him leave for at least some of these calls. So the "He used a pay phone across the street" claim seems suspect.

Johnson's testimony: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/johnso_g.htm

Roberts testimony: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/robertse.htm