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
Mr. REVILL. I started getting long-distance telephone calls on the
evening, it must have been the 23d, it was Thursday night, I got two
long-distance phone calls, and Lieutenant Hopkins and I were sharing a
double room and, of course----
The CHAIRMAN. Lieutenant who?
Mr. REVILL. Lieutenant Hopkins of the Fort Worth Police Department. H.
F. Hopkins.
The CHAIRMAN. Yes.
Mr. REVILL. And I discussed it with him.
Representative FORD. Who was calling you long distance, what relevance
does that have to it?
Mr. REVILL. To my discussing it with him?
Representative FORD. Yes.
Mr. REVILL. The long-distance phone calls were about this report, the
Associated Press and the United Press.
Representative FORD. I see. They had heard about it, they called you
long distance and you discussed it with Hopkins who was in the room
with you?
Mr. REVILL. Yes, sir.
Mr. RANKIN. That is all that I have, Mr. Chief Justice.
The CHAIRMAN. Have you anything further, or you?
Mr. DULLES. Tippit was not under your jurisdiction, was he?
Mr. REVILL. No, sir; he was not.
The CHAIRMAN. Lieutenant, I am not familiar with the newspaper report
that you are speaking of. What, in substance, did it say?
Mr. REVILL. There were several articles written. The Dallas papers
carried articles on it and the Sacramento, Calif., paper carried an
article on it. In essence it had to do with this conversation that
Hosty and I had and about this report and somewhere, someplace some
newspaper reporter must have seen a copy of this because he knew how
many paragraphs they had in it and he quoted, I believe, the last
paragraph of the report verbatim, and this is what concerned me, that a
report such as this would fall into their hands.
Now, who the reporter is, there were several reporters that were
curious about the thing, and I don't even recall which newspaper
carried the verbatim paragraph about Agent Hosty's conversation.
The CHAIRMAN. And that is what caused you and Lieutenant Hopkins to
have a discussion?
Mr. REVILL. Yes, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Did he bring the matter up to you or did you bring it up
to him?
Mr. REVILL. I might have brought it up to him because I was concerned
that this thing had been released.
The CHAIRMAN. What was your conversation concerning that?
Mr. REVILL. That I had received these calls, the first one must have
been around 2 o'clock in the morning, California time, from the
Associated Press. It was a lady writer, and she asked about this and
I told her that any statement would have to be made by Chief Curry,
and she trapped me really. She made a false statement that Hosty was
supposed to have said something else and I said no, that is not so. He
did not make a statement, and then there was my comment. From that it
looked like I had written them out a press release.
The CHAIRMAN. Looks like what?
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