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
Captain JONES. Yes, I did go home for possibly 2 to 3 hours and laid
down. Didn't rest very much. We came back down Saturday and continued
working with Captain Fritz. Making my offices available and my men
available to him during the day Saturday until Saturday evening when we
filed our--our bureau filed the assault to murder charge on Oswald for
the shooting of Governor Connally, which is our bureau that, assault to
murder--that handles assault to murder.
Captain Fritz' bureau handles murder, and by this time I--that was
filed, I began to help take incoming calls and to assist in any way
that I could up there in the administration offices. Stayed up there
until at least nearly midnight Saturday night. Went home, got a few
hours of troubled sleep that night. Before I left, Chief Stevenson
told me that it looked like my cases were all filed, everything was in
pretty good shape. I might as well go ahead and take my vacation as I
had planned and I told him I couldn't enjoy--a little fishing trip was
what I had planned--until it was all over.
Mr. HUBERT. Let me go back a moment. There was a lineup of some kind on
the night of Friday, November 22, at which Oswald was brought into the
lineup in the assembly room at the police department, at which a number
of news media were present.
Captain JONES. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Were you present that night?
Captain JONES. No, sir; I was on the third floor at that time.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know Jack Ruby?
Captain JONES. I have known him.
Mr. HUBERT. Just state how well and under what circumstances.
Captain JONES. Yes, sir; I will be glad to do that. And I do want to
ask--can I say something off the record here?
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
(Discussion off the record.)
Mr. HUBERT. Get back on the record.
During the off-the-record period, Captain Jones simply explained to me
that he had omitted something from his comments relative to what?
Captain JONES. Relative to knowing Jack Ruby. I've got to find----
Mr. HUBERT. Relative to what document?
Captain JONES. 5056. Document 5056; that would be the first complete
paragraph on page 3, where it states, "Jones states that he did know
Ruby and had known him prior to 1952, when he ran the Silver Spur, a
nightclub on South Central. He stated that prior to 1952, he was a
lieutenant covering this district and did go into the Silver Spur, at
the most, six times looking for white subjects."
Mr. HUBERT. Would you state your comments on that?
Captain JONES. The comment is that, "Jones stated that he did know
Ruby and had known him prior to 1952, when he ran the Silver Spur, a
nightclub on South Ervay." The next sentence should read, "He stated
that prior to 1952, he was a detective assigned mostly to colored
cases, but that occasionally we were assigned cases involving white
suspects, and on a few occasions did go in the Silver Spur during those
investigations."
Mr. HUBERT. All right.
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