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. EVANS. 232 Ewing, I believe, or, I don’t know.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you say 223 South Ewing Street?
Mr. EVANS. Well, I guess.
Mr. HUBERT. What apartment did you have?
Mr. EVANS. 204.
Mr. HUBERT. And I think you said you shared that with somebody?
Mr. EVANS. Two other drivers.
Mr. HUBERT. Who are they?
Mr. EVANS. Jack Scritchfield and Malcom Slaughter.
Mr. HUBERT. How long had you been living there with these men, sharing
that apartment?
Mr. EVANS. Well, I believe I only stayed there 2 months.
Mr. HUBERT. In other words, it was a stopoff place on your runs that
you make as a driver, is that right?
Mr. EVANS. Well, you see, they have a bunkhouse, and we were staying in
the bunkhouse, but the company said that we can’t do that no more, and
our families were still in Houston, so, we had to have a place to sleep
when we were in a town, and sometimes wouldn’t be there 1 day a week.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you estimate that you actually shared this apartment
with these other two gentlemen for about 2 months?
Mr. EVANS. Two months.
Mr. HUBERT. And how often, or how many times, put it that way, during
those 2 months prior to November 24, 1963, did you actually stay
overnight or stay in the daytime in this apartment?
Mr. EVANS. I don’t believe it was once a week.
Mr. HUBERT. About once a week? So, about eight or nine times, you
think, during this period?
Mr. EVANS. Something like that. About the only time we would be there
is if we came in Saturday, we would be there Saturday, or Saturday
night and run out Sunday.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you recall being at that apartment on November 24, 1963,
the Sunday after the President was assassinated?
Mr. EVANS. That was the morning Oswald was shot? Yes, all three of us
was there that day.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you have occasion that day to see a man by the name of
Jack Ruby?
Mr. EVANS. Well, I guess it was him.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, tell us how you----
Mr. EVANS. Well, you see----
Mr. HUBERT. Came to think it was him or guess it was him?
Mr. EVANS. Well, see, the church I have been going to is over in
Irving, and they had one, I found out, over there on Marsalis, Catholic
Church there in Oak Cliff, and I thought they had 10 o’clock mass, but
I went and they had a 9 and 11.
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
Mr. EVANS. So, I come back to the apartment at--well, it was just a
little bit before 10, and just as I got out of the car a fellow come
out of the laundry, and he had his--both hands with laundry in them,
and I stepped out of my car, and I kind of waited for him to go on up,
and he kind of waited for me.
Mr. HUBERT. How close did you get to him?
Mr. EVANS. Well, we wasn’t--right then only about 15 feet, something
like that.
Mr. HUBERT. How was the man dressed?
Mr. EVANS. He was--had on a T-shirt, pants and T-shirt.
Mr. HUBERT. No hat?
Mr. EVANS. No hat.
Mr. HUBERT. And you said he had some laundry in his hands?
Mr. EVANS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he live in that same apartment house?
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