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. Did you know who was the person at the door, the ticket
taker, whatever you call it, at the Vegas Club?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Eva was; Eva Grant.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Eva Grant; how would your describe her physically?
Mr. EBERHARDT. She is in her forties, I would say, heavy set. She
has long hair. It was usually red tinted. Fair complected, nice,
middle-aged looking woman.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You say she was heavy set? How heavy would you say?
Mr. EBERHARDT. I would say 155.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How tall would you say?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Any time I saw her, she had heels on and she would be
five-six or seven in heels.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Is she noticeably fat or obese?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No. She is just big boned, a big-boned woman. She is not
actually what you would call real fat. She is just heavy built.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you know a woman by the name of Pauline Hall who
worked at the Vegas Club?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Not by name, I don’t. I might if I would see her.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you know of any fat, heavy-set woman who worked at the
Vegas Club?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you know of any such person who worked at the Carousel
Club?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No. Eva had a good friend--I don’t know what her name
was--who she thought one time stole a ring off of her, who she was
going to call and make a report on it and called me and told me not to.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you ever see the woman?
Mr. EBERHARDT. I have never seen her. She was a very close friend of
Mrs. Grant, and that is why I dropped the investigation, and that is
the only close friend I have heard her speak of.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you recall that woman’s name?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No; I don’t.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When was that?
Mr. EBERHARDT. That was last year sometime.
Mr. GRIFFIN. To continue with this dictation of what Mr. Eberhardt told
me prior to starting this deposition, that he also stated that he knew
a man named Buddy King, who had worked for Jack, and apparently King
had been down on his luck and Jack had picked him up and given him a
job for a while, and that it was common practice for Jack to pick up
these people, people of this sort, and employ them for a short while.
Do you think Jack did this because he could get these people for low
wages or do you think that he did it out of the goodness of his heart?
Mr. EBERHARDT. He liked show people like Buddy King--you know, he was
in the movies--and he put a picture up there with Our Gang Comedy. He
liked to be around people like that. Prizefighters, they would be up
there now and then.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you know any prizefighters up there?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes. I met a prizefighter that bounced for him one
night, the old heavyweight here in Dallas.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Turman?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes; Buddy Turman.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Is he the only one that hung around there?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes; I take it back. You remember when this left-handed
lightweight fighting for Curtis Cokes, going to fight for the title,
little, left-handed, Muskegon, Mich.? He was down there.
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