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. Well, wasn’t it common for all of you people to be talking
about any contact that you had with Ruby on those 2 days?
Mr. EBERHARDT. See, I wasn’t there. I was gone Sunday and Monday.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I see. But I mean, even when you came back, wasn’t there a
lot of gossip, what-not, guys exchanging views?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Didn’t you somewhere between the time you actually saw
Ruby here and the time that you were interviewed by the agents, didn’t
you talk to somebody in the police department about your meeting Ruby?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes. We talked about him being up there in the office,
and being around the city hall like that and wondered how he got in
the basement, and then the only other thing I did on that was write a
report to the chief of police on some information given to me.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Off of the record here.
(Discussion off of the record.)
Mr. GRIFFIN. We will go on the record on this. I have asked Mr. Hubert
to check in our files to see if we have got a copy of this report that
you mentioned that you gave to Chief Curry. Now, I don’t have any
recollection that we have it, and let me ask you now, if he doesn’t
report back to me and say that we have it, would you be good enough,
when you go back to work today, to check where a copy of this report
is and provide it to us? I am going to ask you to clear it with your
superiors and everything.
Mr. EBERHARDT. All right.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I would like to see a copy of that. What did that report
deal with?
Mr. EBERHARDT. This was information given to me by a police reserve who
I know real well who was on duty at the time. He didn’t think anything
about telling anybody about it, and several days later he told me about
it, about going out to the hospital when Oswald was shot and talking to
another reserve out there, that he didn’t know his name, who said that
he had seen or thought he had seen a man walk down the ramp outside of
the city hall.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Who was the reserve officer that gave you this information?
Mr. EBERHARDT. H. B. Holly, Jr. And as soon as he told me about it, I
sat down and wrote a “Dear Chief,” and gave it to my captain.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you have occasion yourself to talk to this unknown
reserve officer?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No; I didn’t. I talked to Holly.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Okay. Mr. Hubert indicated to me that we didn’t have a
copy of this report, and I would appreciate very much seeing it.
Mr. EBERHARDT. Okay. I will try.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you remember what you did in the period between the
time you saw Ruby, at which you estimated at 6 or 7 p.m., and when you
saw him later on at the press conference?
Mr. EBERHARDT. I worked--I just worked my day out, and then they held
us over.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you stay in?
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