Oswald's Bus Transfer

When he was apprehended, Oswald had a bus transfer for the Lakewood-Marsalis route in his shirt pocket. The transfer, dated "Fri. Nov. 22, '63," was punched in two places by the bus driver.

Because Dallas bus drivers had distinctive punchmarks, this transfer was conclusively linked to Cecil J. McWatters, who drove for the Dallas Transit Co. McWatters later testified that he issued the transfer to a man who "beat on the front door of the bus, boarded it and paid his fare."

Two blocks later, a female passenger "asked to get off to make a 1 o'clock train at Union Station and requested a transfer which she might use if she got through the traffic." The man who had just boarded the bus also requested a transfer and got off at the same spot.

According to the bus driver both passengers left the bus "at the intersection near Lamar Street, it was near Poydras and Lamar Street."