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. GRIFFIN. Now I want to hand you a document which I have marked
Dallas, Tex., April 14, 1963, Ira J. Beers’ Exhibit 5350. This purports
to be a copy of an FBI interview report. The interview took place,
according to this report, on November 30, 1963, between you and two
Special Agents of the FBI, Mr. Pinkston and W. Harlan Brown. I want to
hand you this and ask you if you have had a chance to read it?
Mr. BEERS. Yes, sir.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you have any additions or corrections that you would
want to make in that. What I am referring to here right now in
particular is whether you feel that that report accurately reflects
everything that you told the bureau on the date of that interview?
Mr. BEERS. With one minor exception. Shall I just read?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Would you read the sentence that you feel is wrong?
Mr. BEERS. “He is acquainted with Ruby both by name and by sight since
about 18 months ago. He was assigned as a cameraman with Dale Bayse, a
reporter for the Dallas News, on a story Bayse was doing on a stripper
school being run by Jack Ruby.
“This story was for a magazine ...”--I would like to make clear this
was not an assignment by the Dallas News.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I see.
Mr. BEERS. That is the only thing I think of in this particular report.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Fine. Now I am going to hand you what has been marked
Dallas, Tex., April 14, 1963, Ira J. Beers’ Exhibit 5351. This is also
an FBI interview report. This interview took place on December 3, 1963,
here in Dallas, and purports to be a report of an interview between you
and two other Special Agents of the FBI, Mr. James C. Kennedy and Will
Hayden Griffin. I am going to hand you this Exhibit 5351, and ask you
the same question as I asked with respect to 5350?
Mr. BEERS. Yes; I have seen this report.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Are there any additions?
Mr. BEERS. Yes, sir; there is a couple in here. Let me locate them.
One, which is probably a minor one, speaking of myself: “He also stated
that there were two armored vehicles, one in the basement and one
near the driveway from the Commerce side.” I think possibly the agent
misunderstood what I said there. There was only one armored vehicle.
That was in the basement driveway near the Commerce Street side. There
was another vehicle, police car, parked in the basement right near the
entrance.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now that is a runover sentence from the first page of the
report to the second page of the report, is that right?
Mr. BEERS. Yes; that’s correct.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you want to correct the sentence?
Mr. BEERS. “Beers did not know Ruby prior to the shooting, nor did he
know Oswald ...” et cetera. This is contradictory to the first report
that you just handed me a moment ago. Apparently the agent must have
misunderstood me or misread his notes or something. I did know who Ruby
was prior to this shooting.
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