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. Perhaps for the record you might, if you can, give the
technical description of the camera you were using that day.
Mr. PHENIX. Well, it’s an Auricon, 16 mm. sound camera and it is
equipped with a 400-foot magazine, operated--a hand camera is normally
hand wound--this is power driven by a battery, and it had a microphone
and it was braced on a unipod, a single pole.
Mr. HUBERT. It is held by the hand and balanced that way?
Mr. PHENIX. By the hand when it is on a unipod. Normally it is usually
either on a tripod or a shoulder harness and it weighs about 40 pounds
I imagine.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, on the 24th of November how were you operating it--on
a tripod?
Mr. PHENIX. On a unipod--on a unipod.
Mr. HUBERT. By that, I take it it is a single stick, is it not?
Mr. PHENIX. Right.
Mr. HUBERT. It is adjustable for distance from the ground?
Mr. PHENIX. Yes, sir--I believe there are three adjustments you can
make.
Mr. HUBERT. It serves to steady the camera?
Mr. PHENIX. Right.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, Mr. Phenix, I have shown you two documents which I am
now going to mark for identification as follows, to wit: The first one
I am marking, “Dallas, Tex., April 16, 1964, as number 5328, Deposition
of George R. Phenix,” and I am signing my name below that. That
contains one page. It purports to be an interview of you on November
24, 1963, by FBI Agents Lee and Barrett [spelling] B-a-r-r-e-t-t.
I am marking the second document as follows:
“Dallas, Tex., April 16, 1964, as Exhibit 5329, Deposition of George
R. Phenix,” and I am signing my name below that. That document also
contains only one page and purports to be a report of an interview with
FBI Agents Harding and Rawlings. Have you had an opportunity to read
the exhibits, which have been identified as Exhibits 5328 and 5329?
Mr. PHENIX. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you consider that those exhibits represent a true and
fair report of the interviews which they purport to cover?
Mr. PHENIX. Yes, sir. Now, the second one updates the first one. The
second one is more correct.
Mr. HUBERT. That is to say, the one dated November 28, 1963, identified
as Exhibit No. 5329, goes into more detail than the one dated November
24, which has been identified as Exhibit 5328?
Mr. PHENIX. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you perceive any conflicts between them?
Mr. PHENIX. No--mainly--I don’t know if you need this for your record
or not. Mainly, there is just a correction in an impression I had. I
was located around by the crew and in that first interview, I thought
I would have been hit by Ruby since he was in front of me, as he
stepped out of the crowd, but then we know--one says we know it wasn’t
Ruby--that’s about it.
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