Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. CROY. He had a good head of steam up, I will put it that way.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you know Captain King?
Mr. CROY. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you know Detective Blackie Harrison?
Mr. CROY. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Can you describe the people that you saw Ruby push through?
Mr. CROY. Well, it was just a group of reporters there trying to get
closer to Ruby. I mean to Oswald.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Were there any police officers near Ruby at the time that
he moved through that line?
Mr. CROY. There were no uniform police officers. If there were some
detectives there, I don't know, because I didn't know any of them.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Well, during this period that you were down in the
basement, the 5-minute period that you were in the basement, were you
able to distinguish the plainclothes detectives from the newspaper
people?
Mr. CROY. No; I was in the basement longer than 5 minutes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. The period that you were stationed at the base of the
ramp, the 15 minutes or more, were you able to distinguish the
uniformed officers from the newspaper people?
Mr. CROY. Uniformed officers; yes. The detectives; no.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You couldn't distinguish them? All right. Are you able to
describe the relative size of the newspaper reporters that Ruby moved
there, in comparison to him?
Mr. CROY. No; because this man had run through, Ruby, if it was Ruby,
was in a crouch. He was running low. The newspapermen were of average
height and average build.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How could you tell that the two men he pushed were
newspaper reporters?
Mr. CROY. I don't know. They might have been police officers.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did anybody that he pushed by have a camera in his hand or
microphone or a pad of paper or anything?
Mr. CROY. I don't recall whether they did or not. They were actually
standing in front of me and I was looking at their backs.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Have you seen yourself in any photographs that have been
taken of the basement area?
Mr. CROY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you remember where you saw that photograph? Was it a
photograph in a magazine or newspaper or something?
Mr. CROY. Television.
Mr. GRIFFIN. A TV film?
Mr. CROY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you recall what station you saw that on?
Mr. CROY. All of them. No; I don't. They just ran it and ran it and
reran it, and every time I was in the room, someone said, "There you
are," and I looked again.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was this a showing that the police department made to you,
or were you shown any films by the police department?
Mr. CROY. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You saw this film on the regular, your home TV set,
something like that?
Mr. CROY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you recall in any of these films a shot of Ruby
standing behind a very large man, standing right up at the back of a
very large man, a very tall man, a man perhaps a head taller than he?
Mr. CROY. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. If you were shown these particular movie films, TV films
that you saw, could you pick yourself out for us?
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