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
Representative FORD. May I ask a question to reconstruct this a bit?
Both Detective Brian and yourself came in one car?
Mr. REVILL. Yes, sir.
Representative FORD. And you had two other officers with you?
Mr. REVILL. Yes, sir.
Representative FORD. More or less the same time Mr. Hosty came in?
Mr. REVILL. We followed Mr. Hosty into the basement.
Mr. DULLES. Each in a car?
Mr. REVILL. Yes, sir; he was in a car and we were in mine.
Representative FORD. Your first contact with Mr. Hosty was in the
basement there?
Mr. REVILL. Yes, sir.
Representative FORD. What did he say there?
Mr. REVILL. He come running up to me, and he said, "Jack, a Communist
killed President Kennedy." I said, "What? What are you talking about?"
He said, "Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy," and at that I
said "Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?" And then he told me about him having
him in their security files, and then that, "We had information that he
was capable of this." By "we" I assumed he meant the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
Representative FORD. Then Brian, Hosty, and yourself walked to the
elevator?
Mr. REVILL. Yes, sir.
Representative FORD. And the three of you took the elevator up to the
third floor?
Mr. REVILL. Yes, sir.
Mr. DULLES. It is about 10 feet as I remember it.
Mr. REVILL. No, sir; it is more than that.
Mr. DULLES. It is a different elevator. It is not the one that take
prisoners down?
Mr. REVILL. No, sir; it is the swinging doors, you go through the
swinging doors.
Mr. DULLES. It is another elevator?
Mr. REVILL. Yes, sir.
Representative FORD. At what point in the sequence did you blow up, as
you say?
Mr. REVILL. When he told me about the capability. By blowing up----
Representative FORD. Was that standing in the basement near the car or
was it over toward the elevator?
Mr. REVILL. We were walking over toward the elevator during this
conversation and as far as blowing up, this is semantics. I wanted to
know why they had not given us this information.
Representative FORD. What is his reaction to that?
Mr. REVILL. "We couldn't." I do not know what he meant by that.
Representative FORD. When you use words like "We couldn't" that "Oswald
was a Communist" this is what I am trying to find out. You mean these
are the precise words he said or are these your interpretations of what
he said?
Mr. REVILL. The time involved it could be my interpretation, to give
him the benefit of the doubt, because as I said Hosty is a friend of
mine, and the last thing I wanted to do was to cause this man any
trouble, because of our relations in the past.
Representative FORD. Have you ever had any doubt in the interval
between that time and now that what your recollection is is accurate or
inaccurate, fair or unfair?
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