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. Standing with the gun in your hand, what did you do at
that point?
Mr. GRAVES. Put the gun in my pocket and went on inside the jail office.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When you arrived inside the jail office, where was Ruby?
Mr. GRAVES. Ruby was, I believe, to my right; just to my right, to the
right of the jail office door. Of course, there were men around there
and Oswald was back----
Mr. GRIFFIN. How long did you remain there?
Mr. GRAVES. I didn’t remain with Ruby at all. Just kind of hesitated
and looked over and went on. I believe Montgomery asked me if I got the
gun and I said, “Yes,” and kept on.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Where did you walk?
Mr. GRAVES. Walked back to where Oswald was.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you hear him say anything?
Mr. GRAVES. I didn’t hear him say anything.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What did you do when you got back to where Oswald was?
Mr. GRAVES. Stood there and watched the doctor work with him until the
ambulance came.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Then what did you do?
Mr. GRAVES. Well, they put him in the ambulance and I got in the
ambulance with him and went to Parkland Hospital and got off there
and took him right into emergency and worked with him a few minutes.
And got him prepared for the operating room, and, so, we caught the
elevator with him and with the doctors and nurses and went on up to
the second floor, and I changed into one of those scrub uniforms and
crepe-soled shoes and went over to the door of the operating room,
where I stayed until such time as he was pronounced dead.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Outside of the operating room?
Mr. GRAVES. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. As you were standing outside of the operating room, did
you hear discussion about how Ruby got into the building?
Mr. GRAVES. No; I didn’t--an FBI man came up there a little later and
stood with me.
Mr. GRIFFIN. To go back just a minute, you have already told me this
before in an earlier interview, but I want to make this clear for the
record. You knew Ruby before this occasion when you saw him shoot
Oswald?
Mr. GRAVES. I will tell you how I knew Ruby. He opened a joint, a
dancehall down on South Ervay called the Silver Spur something like 10
years ago, approximately. That is where I first knew Jack Ruby existed.
Since that time I have just known about Jack Ruby----
Mr. GRIFFIN. How did you know him down there?
Mr. GRAVES. Well, as a joint operator, you know, when you work in a
uniform that is part of the business, to know who runs places.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What bureau were you in at that time?
Mr. GRAVES. I was in the radio patrol bureau at that time.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I see.
Mr. GRAVES. And later I learned that he opened a place out on Oak Lawn
called The Vegas Club.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you see Ruby in the police department over the years
before that?
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