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. No; I don’t remember seeing him again, either.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you remember Henry Wade making any statement to the
effect that Oswald was a member of the Free Cuba Committee?
Mr. EBERHARDT. I don’t remember too much of what the district attorney
said. There was so much written and heard about it, it is hard to
differentiate what Wade said from what I read in the paper.
Mr. GRIFFIN. If Ruby had said something at this press conference, would
you have noticed it or heard it?
Mr. EBERHARDT. I have heard that he had from other people, you know,
rumors around, but myself, I don’t remember he said anything. I heard
he corrected Mr. Wade on a question, is what I heard.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. EBERHARDT. Is what I heard. I didn’t stay for the entire
conference. I was at liberty to go home. When they had me go up there
and guard Oswald, as soon as he left, I was at liberty to go home.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When did you leave this conference?
Mr. EBERHARDT. About 5 minutes after he left.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you and Cody leave together?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you sign out of the building or anything?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No; we don’t sign out. I just left, got in my car and
went home.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did Cody remain in there after you did?
Mr. EBERHARDT. I don’t know. I lost him in the shuffle. I stood over
there by Johnny, the news reporter up there in the pressroom at the
city hall, is who I stood by while the conference was going on. He
asked a couple of questions. I couldn’t tell you what questions he
asked. No; there was no semblance of order. Those reporters just holler
out anything that comes in their mind, and whoever shouts the loudest
is whoever gets the answer, is how it works.
Mr. GRIFFIN. If Ruby had said something while you were in there, would
you have been close enough to Henry Wade or to Ruby to have heard it?
Mr. EBERHARDT. I don’t know where Ruby was, so I couldn’t answer that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Well, you said at this press conference you saw Ruby
standing back----
Mr. EBERHARDT. Right.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Back on a table?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Right
Mr. GRIFFIN. I don’t understand it, now, when you say that you don’t
know where Ruby was.
Mr. EBERHARDT. As soon as Oswald left is when the press conference
began, and when Oswald left, they all came running up to the front.
There was great disorder. When Oswald left, all of the reporters was at
liberty to do what they wished, and they all came up to the front, and
I didn’t see Jack Ruby after Oswald left.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Okay. I want you to be an artist here. Can you draw the
assembly room?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Okay. Here is the main door. This is the stage back here
for a showup.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. EBERHARDT. It is raised. All right. And then through here you have
an alleyway, a little hallway, and then down through here is a walkway.
Now, through here are fixed tables that run length to the wall,
stationary, all of the way down, both sides.
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