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. EBERHARDT. Our whole--well, our shift was on. I don’t recall who
actually was in there, but Lieutenant Leonard’s shift was on at that
time. That is who I worked for at that time.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Give me as many of the people as you recall who would have
been on that shift.
Mr. EBERHARDT. Let’s see. I wouldn’t know their days off, but I could
tell you the names of everybody on the shift.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. Let’s have that.
Mr. EBERHARDT. C. A. Jones, S. Tuck, P. Dillehay, J. R. Johnston, C. T.
Burney, W. P. Posey, R. A. Standifer, M. Tuck. Lieutenant, it was.
Mr. GRIFFIN. That is Lieutenant Leonard?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes; there is some more that I just can’t--H. J. Bettes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How do you spell that last name?
Mr. EBERHARDT. [Spelling.] B-e-t-t-e-s. Correction on Posey. He was on
vacation. J. H. Boyd, that I can remember.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Those people that you have named, do you remember
specifically if any of them were in the office when Jack came in?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes; the lieutenant was there, I think Jones was there,
I think Tuck was there, and they were in and out and reporters in and
out, you know, it is hard to sit here and visualize who was standing
there, and the secretaries were there, but I don’t recall which were on
duty.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You have a number of rooms in your office; don’t you?
Mr. EBERHARDT. In our office?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. EBERHARDT. We have three interrogation rooms.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You have the main reception room, the interrogation rooms?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No, no; the only office that is closed off is the
interrogation rooms.
Mr. GRIFFIN. As you walk into the office, you come into a room?
Mr. EBERHARDT. You come into an “L,” and then the room opens up for you.
(Discussion off the record.)
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, can you describe which room Jack came into?
Mr. EBERHARDT. He opened our door and walked in about three paces and
just stood there and talked.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he sit down at all?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No; he stood up.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, what do you remember him saying?
Mr. EBERHARDT. He came in and said hello to me, shook hands with me.
I asked him what he was doing. He told me he was a translator for
the newspapers. Of course, I knew that he could speak Yiddish. Had a
notebook in his hand, and he talked a little bit about that, and then
he said that he brought the coffee and sandwiches up for the reporters,
corned beef sandwiches. He said, “Nothing but kosher stuff is all I
bring.” He talked a little bit about the assassination of the President.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you remember him saying--what he said about the
assassination?
Mr. EBERHARDT. How terrible it was for it to happen in the city, and
then he left.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he seem--how would you describe his state of emotion
over the Presidents death?
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