Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Evidently I took a little domineering part about me, and I was able
to be admitted. I asked different reporters and various personalities
there, "Are you Joe Long?," and I couldn't locate him.
I even had a police officer try to page him and he couldn't locate him.
I recognized a couple of police officers, Cal Jones and a few others,
and I said "hello" to them.
And I am still looking for Joe Long, but I am carried away with the
excitement of history.
And one fellow then--I am in the hallway there--there is a narrow
hallway, and I don't recall if Captain Fritz or Chief Curry brings the
prisoner out, and I am standing about 2 or 3 feet away from him, and
there is some reporters that didn't know the various police officers,
and I don't know whether they asked me or I volunteered to tell them,
because I knew they were looking to find out who that was, and I said,
"That was Chief Curry" or "That is Captain Fritz," or whoever it was.
I don't recall Henry Wade coming out in the hallway. He probably did. I
don't recall what happened.
(To Joe Tonahill) Is that for me, Joe?
Then suddenly someone asked, either the Chief or Captain Fritz, "Isn't
there a larger room we can go into?"
They said, "Well, let's go down to the assembly room downstairs."
I don't know what transpired in between from the time that I had the
officer page Joe Long up to the time I was standing about 3 feet
away from Oswald. All the things--I don't recall if I am telling you
everything that happened from that time, from the time I entered the
building to the time I went down to the assembly room.
I went down to the assembly room down in the basement. I felt perfectly
free walking in there. No one asked me or anything. I got up on a
little table there where I knew I wasn't blocking anyone's view,
because there was an abutment sticking out, and I had my back to the
abutment, and I was standing there.
Then they brought the prisoner out and various questions were being
shouted.
I noticed there was a chief county judge--Davidson, I can't think of
his name, one of these precinct court judges, and they brought the
prisoner out.
I don't recall if Chief Fritz, Captain Fritz was there, or Chief Curry.
I know Henry Wade was there. And they started shouting questions and he
said, "Is he the one?" And the question about the gun.
And they questioned Henry Wade, "what organization did he belong to,"
or something. And if I recall, I think Henry Wade answered, "Free Cuba."
And I corrected Henry Wade, because listening to the radio or KLIF,
it stood out in my mind that it was "Fair Play Cuba." There was a
difference.
So he said, "Oh yes, Fair Play Cuba," and he corrected that.
I don't know how long we remained there. There was a lot of questions
thrown back and forth, and this District Attorney Henry Wade was
answering them to the best he could.
From the way he stated, he let the reporters know that this was the
guilty one that committed the crime.
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