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. So the reporters had their back to you?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, could you hear the questions that were being asked by
the reporters?
Mr. EBERHARDT. I could hear most of them; yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Could you hear Henry Wade’s answers?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was there any difference in the way that you could hear
Henry Wade’s answers as opposed to the way you could hear the questions?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Well, the questions were coming from all over the room.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was Henry Wade speaking through a microphone?
Mr. EBERHARDT. They kept hollering for him to turn on the microphone.
At first, he hadn’t gotten it turned on, but they hollered at him, and
he turned it on.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was there any substantial difference between your ability
to hear Wade----
Mr. EBERHARDT. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. As opposed to your ability to hear the reporters?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Were there any times when there were people speaking when
you couldn’t hear them, reporters asking questions?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No; they shout. They shout from the crowd. Very
ill-mannered people, the way they conducted that thing. There is no--I
mean they don’t have any concern for any of their other people or not.
It is every man for himself. They just run, and if they run over one
of their own, they do, that is all, and it is mass confusion. Whenever
they left these tables and what have you, they just come up there.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I am going to mark this, step over here and get a pen.
While I am marking this particular document, I would like for you to
look at the report of your interview and read it over and then I am
going to ask you if there are any additions or corrections you want to
make.
Mr. EBERHARDT. Did you want me to deliver that “Dear Chief” copy to you?
Mr. GRIFFIN. If you would, send it over.
Mr. EBERHARDT. Okay.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I am going to mark for identification----
Mr. EBERHARDT. Let me make you a better picture.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You are going to go down in history. A thousand years from
now, they are going to look at this and say, “That is what Eberhardt
did.” I have marked this diagram that you have made of the assembly
room Exhibit No. 5025, and I have labeled it “Police Assembly Room,
Oswald Press Conference.” Now, this is the diagram that you have just
finished drawing, is it not?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Would you sign that and date it? [Pause.] You are going to
mess up the historians. The year is--1267, that is your police number?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I thought you were writing the year on there. Now, I am
going to also mark for identification the report of Smith and Chapoton.
Mr. EBERHARDT. I don’t like that, I mean this part here, I mean they
didn’t get this exactly right.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. Let us change it. Let me mark it, “Dallas,
Texas, Detective Eberhardt, 3-25-64, Exhibit 5026.” Now, would you look
at that, and what corrections or changes do you want to make?
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