Yes, the resemblance is pretty remarkable.
Mr. BALL - What is your education?
Mr. SHELLEY - High school.
Mr. BALL - What have you been doing since then?
Mr. SHELLEY - I worked in defense plants a little bit during the war and started working at the Texas School Book Depository October 29, 1945.
Mr. BALL - (After leaving room for last answer, Mr. Ball returns.) Did you tell her all about yourself?
Mr. SHELLEY - You wanted to know when I was born.
Mr. BALL - You told us that, and you had your high school education?
Mr. SHELLEY - Yes.
Mr. BALL - What kind of work have you done since then?
Mr. SHELLEY - I've told her.
Mr. BALL - How long have you worked at Texas School Book Depository?
Mr. SHELLEY - She already has it, October 29, 1945.
Mr. BALL - October 29, 1945---steady since that date?
Mr. SHELLEY - Oh, yes.
Mr. BALL - In November 1963, what was your job down there?
Mr. SHELLEY - Well, I am manager of the miscellaneous department and have been for several years.
Yep, every company has a miscellaneous department. Unlike other witnesses, who were asked for detailed accounts of their backgrounds, the WC seems to have taken down most of Shelley's personal information off the record while Ball was out of the room.
In "The Glaze Letters" by William Weston, in The Fourth Decade, it says that William Shelley told journalist Elize Glaze he'd "been an intelligence officer during World War II and thereafter joined the CIA."
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