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. Now, I am marking a document which purports to be a report
of an interview with you by FBI Agent Jack Peden, as follows: “Dallas,
Texas, April 1, 1964, Exhibit 5131, deposition of John O. Servance,”
and I am signing my name on this document which is a one-page document,
and so that the record may show that we are both speaking about the
same document would you place your name below mine on that document,
sir? You may use this pen.
Mr. SERVANCE. Below yours?
Mr. HUBERT. Well, just anywhere there to the side.
Mr. SERVANCE. All right.
Mr. HUBERT. Mr. Servance, have you read this document?
Mr. SERVANCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Exhibit 5131, which you have just signed?
Mr. SERVANCE. I read it.
Mr. HUBERT. Is it correct and true?
Mr. SERVANCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Any alterations or modifications that you wish to make to
it?
Mr. SERVANCE. No, it isn’t. Now, I mean, as far as I understood it. As
far as I could remember, that is true.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, now, you have just read it, haven’t you?
Mr. SERVANCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. And it seems to be correct?
Mr. SERVANCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, do you know Alfreadia Riggs?
Mr. SERVANCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. And Henry Fuqua?
Mr. SERVANCE. Hal Fuqua.
Mr. HUBERT. Hal Fuqua, is it?
Mr. SERVANCE. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you see them in the basement that day?
Mr. SERVANCE. I saw them in the basement.
Mr. HUBERT. And all of you were sent up the service elevator by the
police to the first floor of the municipal building, is that right?
Mr. SERVANCE. That’s right, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. It is true that at one time during the course of the
morning there you opened the inside door on the Commerce Street
entrance of the municipal building so you all could look out?
Mr. SERVANCE. Well; yes, sir. I did, I opened the door. We
stood--there’s a glass vestibule, you know.
Mr. HUBERT. You stood in this vestibule. The outside doors to Commerce
Street remain open all the time, and the inside door is locked. You had
a key and you unlocked it and all of you stood in the vestibule for a
while, is that right?
Mr. SERVANCE. For a while, that’s right.
Mr. HUBERT. What happened to Riggs and Fuqua? Do you know?
Mr. SERVANCE. They was standing there. What I mean, we were there
during--all the excitement, I don’t know--everything just--I don’t know
what way--I thought they were still there. I didn’t see them. I mean,
that is--
Mr. HUBERT. When you left the vestibule, did you lock the door?
Mr. SERVANCE. I locked the door, I did.
Mr. HUBERT. Did anybody come in through the Commerce Street entrance
while you were standing there?
Mr. SERVANCE. No.
Mr. HUBERT. Could anyone have come in without your noticing it?
Mr. SERVANCE. No, sir; they couldn’t have.
Mr. HUBERT. Why do you say that?
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