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. HUBERT. Well, I show you a series of pictures here, which for
purposes of identification I am marking on the back as follows,
“Dallas, Texas, March 31, 1964. Exhibit No. 5122, deposition of Sidney
Evans, Jr.,” and signing my name to it, and in order that the record
may show that we are both talking about the same document, I will ask
you to put your name under mine, after which, I will ask you some
questions about it.
Mr. EVANS. All right.
Mr. HUBERT. I will ask you to turn the document over and look at those
several photos there of a man and ask you if that is the man you saw
carrying the laundry on the morning of November 24, at about 10 o’clock.
Mr. EVANS. Well, it looks like him. Of course, he didn’t have on
nothing but a T-shirt, white T-shirt when I saw him.
Mr. HUBERT. Yes; what I was thinking about, his face----
Mr. EVANS. Well, you know, I just looked over my shoulder. He was
coming up the stairs there behind me, and I said, “How are you this
morning?” and he----
Mr. HUBERT. Well, I take it that you looked at him several times, that
is to say, you looked at him when you first saw him?
Mr. EVANS. I didn’t really look at him.
Mr. HUBERT. Then what did you do? Offer to open the door----
Mr. EVANS. I just, you know, I spoke to him, and I--he was coming up
the same floor I was going up and I never paid much--in fact, I----
Mr. HUBERT. At sometime you must have mentioned to somebody that you
thought you had seen this man on that Sunday, and that he was Jack
Ruby. Do you recall how that came about?
Mr. EVANS. Well, one of these buddies there, he told some newspaperman
a bunch--that he told them all about that when I wasn’t even there at
the time.
Mr. HUBERT. You mean at the time that he told the story?
Mr. EVANS. He told them all about it.
Mr. HUBERT. We are talking about now, Malcom Slaughter, aren’t we?
Mr. EVANS. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. You had told Slaughter that you thought that man you had
seen was Ruby?
Mr. EVANS. After we ate and I went back to the 11 o’clock mass, and it
was close to 12 o’clock when I got back to the apartment.
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
Mr. EVANS. And just as soon as I opened the door these guys told me
Oswald had been shot.
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
Mr. EVANS. And so, then, it wasn’t long before 1 o’clock Life Magazine,
and--man, they was out there taking picture, and newspapers, and they
were taking pictures of the apartment and interviewing different people
there.
Mr. HUBERT. So, it was at that time that you told Mr. Slaughter that
you thought you had seen Ruby that morning?
Mr. EVANS. Yes; I told him what happened there and the guy had went in
that apartment there.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you know his roommate, I think you mentioned something
about a roommate?
Mr. EVANS. I understand the papers said there were two of them staying
there.
Mr. HUBERT. But you don’t know of your own knowledge?
Mr. EVANS. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Had you ever seen the man who was supposed to be his
roommate?
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