Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. HUBERT. In other words, you were not interested in knowing who they
were yourself? You wanted them to know of the fact that there were two
officers there?
Mr. SORRELS. That is right.
Mr. HUBERT. And that you were worried about your own qualifications?
Mr. SORRELS. That is right.
Mr. HUBERT. Can you tell us approximately the lapse of time, if you
can remember it, between your conversation with Mr. Griffin and your
conversation with either Chief Batchelor or Chief Curry that you have
been speaking of?
Mr. SORRELS. Well, I would say it was quite some time afterwards,
because this conversation--I don’t remember the date I had it with Mr.
Griffin, but it was prior to the writing of this memorandum. And it was
quite some time after that that the trial ever started. And when Mr.
Wade saw me at the airport and said, “I want to see you and talk to you
about this case,” the trial, of course, had not started at that time.
So it was quite some time afterwards.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, what did Curry or Batchelor, whoever it was, tell you
when you told him of this?
Mr. SORRELS. As I recall it, they said they could get the information.
That is all that I recall that they said.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you remember when speaking to Wade at the interview
whether you adverted to the conversation you had had over the telephone
with either Batchelor or Wade, or possibly both?
Mr. SORRELS. No; I don’t recall that that was mentioned.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you have any other conversation with any officers in
the police department? I mean about this aspect that we are talking
about now?
Mr. SORRELS. I saw Captain Fritz at the district attorney’s office the
day that I was down there and talked to him, and I cannot recall about
whether or not there was a conversation with him about who was present
at that time or not, because I remember discussing with Captain Fritz
at that time that I didn’t think my testimony would be much benefit to
the prosecution on that, or if it would be admissible because of the
fact I had not warned Ruby of his constitutional rights.
Mr. HUBERT. When was that conversation?
Mr. SORRELS. That was the same time I was talking to Mr. Wade at his
office. This is when the trial of Ruby was actually in progress.
Mr. HUBERT. Was Fritz in the office?
Mr. SORRELS. He was in and out of there. He had walked in and walked
out. And I may have mentioned to him that--the fact that there was
other officers there besides Dean and myself. And I told Mr. Wade in
Dean’s presence that certain things that Mr. Wade had asked me about,
about Ruby saying that he had been--I think somebody had been thinking
3 days about shooting this fellow--that I heard no such statement,
that I had left when I got the information I wanted. In other words,
when I was questioning Ruby, as I recall it, nobody was asking him any
questions except me, and when I got through I left.
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