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. Well, now, when you left, of course, you--you knew Ruby,
you had known him for some time, so, when you left the jail, of course
you knew who the guy was who had shot Oswald?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. Uh-huh.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, when you got out to Parkland Hospital, do you
remember anybody who was out there asking questions about any other
officers, or asking questions about who it was that shot Oswald?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. No; I don’t remember anybody asking me anything about
it.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you hear conversation out at Parkland Hospital that
would have identified Ruby as the person who shot Oswald?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. No; I didn’t hear anybody out there saying, you know,
that Ruby shot Oswald.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you talk to any reserve officers out there at Parkland
Hospital?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. No; I don’t believe I did.
Mr. GRIFFIN. As you took Oswald out to Parkland Hospital, was it
generally known among all the people who were escorting Oswald to
Parkland that Ruby had been the guy?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. Well, of course, I was in the car with Captain Fritz,
Beck, and Brown, and as far as any ambulance, where Oswald was, I don’t
know if it----
Mr. GRIFFIN. All the people in your car knew it was Ruby?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. No; Captain Fritz didn’t know who it was. They didn’t
know each other.
Mr. GRIFFIN. He knew the name of the man who had shot Oswald was Ruby
at that time, didn’t he?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. Yes, he knew that. We discussed it there in the car
that--going out to the hospital--that Jack Ruby shot him.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, you took Oswald into Parkland Hospital--were there
people asking you who shot him?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. No, because I didn’t go in with the body--I say, “the
body”--Oswald. Of course when the ambulance--beat us to the hospital.
Mr. GRIFFIN. As you people went into the hospital, were there people
asking you who shot----
Mr. MONTGOMERY. People doing a lot of talking. I don’t know if they
were asking questions or what, because we weren’t paying a lot of
attention to them.
Mr. GRIFFIN. If somebody had asked you who shot Oswald, might you have
said Ruby did it?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. No; I wouldn’t have.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I might explain to you what I am getting at. We know that
somewhere along the line somebody was out at Parkland Hospital who was
a newspaperman at----
Mr. MONTGOMERY. Uh-huh.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Learned that Ruby was the person. This started a rumor to
the effect that his informant must have had something to do with it,
and I am really asking you this question to see if it isn’t possible
that you guys, as you guys got out to Parkland, somebody had said Ruby
was the guy and just by dropping the words, you know, that would spread
like wildfire out there.
Mr. MONTGOMERY. No; I didn’t say anything about who it was that done
the shooting, out there.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What time did you arrive back at the homicide bureau?
Mr. MONTGOMERY. What time?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. MONTGOMERY. Approximately 1:30.
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