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
Mrs. PITTS. It sounded like Mr. Ruby, but he just--he started talking
off all right and then he would go, you know, to talking funny to me,
and don’t sound like himself, and hollering and talking loud and that
is something he didn’t ever do.
Mr. HUBERT. You mean kind of mad at you?
Mrs. PITTS. No; it wasn’t mad, but just talking strange, you know how
a person talks strange, kind of. Don’t really understand what they are
really saying, I guess.
Mr. HUBERT. You testified, didn’t you, in Mr. Ruby’s trial?
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Had you been interviewed prior to that by his attorney?
Mrs. PITTS. Say had I been what?
Mr. HUBERT. Interviewed prior to your testimony in the trial by his
attorney?
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir; by his--Mr. Belli.
Mr. HUBERT. Mr. Belli? He talked to you?
Mrs. PITTS. He talked to me. He come out there and got me when I was
sitting out there waiting. They had--Mr. Burleson was the one that
talks to me over the phone and told me that I had to come down there.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he ask you whether or not his voice was strange?
Mrs. PITTS. They just told me to tell how he talked to me, so, that is
what I did. That is what he said that they wanted to know. So, that is
what I did.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you remember that you were interviewed by Mr. Jack
French, special agent of the FBI, around 2 or 3 days after this
shooting occurred?
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you recall whether you told Mr. French at that time that
you thought that Mr. Ruby’s voice sounded odd the way you testified
today?
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir; I told him that, but he told me what he was
wanting to know if I had seen any books or letters or papers around
there, and that I didn’t ever look, and----
Mr. HUBERT. But you say you told Mr. French that you thought that Mr.
Ruby’s voice was odd like you testified to today?
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir; I told him that.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you tell him that, or was the first time that you
testified like that at the time of the Ruby trial?
Mrs. PITTS. Did I do what now?
Mr. HUBERT. I say, are you sure that you told Mr. French about Mr.
Ruby’s strange sounding voice or what----
Mrs. PITTS. I told----
Mr. HUBERT. Or was the first time you testified about that voice at the
time of the trial?
Mrs. PITTS. I told him some of it. He told me he wasn’t interested in
that. He said what he wanted to know if I’d seen a lot of people around
there. I didn’t see, because I wasn’t there every day.
Mr. HUBERT. Was it suggested to you by anyone that you should say that
his voice was strange there?
Mrs. PITTS. Yes, sir; I told him that.
Mr. HUBERT. No; did anybody suggest to you, at anytime that you should
testify that Mr. Ruby’s voice seemed odd that day?
Mrs. PITTS. No, sir; nobody didn’t tell me that, just told me to tell
how he talks to me, so, that is what I did.
Mr. HUBERT. And you had also told that to Mr. French?
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