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. Did you talk with either Archer or Clardy or anybody else
in the police department about this statement that Ruby made to you
between the time that Ruby made it and the time you gave that interview
with the FBI?
Mr. McMILLON. I don’t recall what the conversation was. Archer, Clardy,
and several more of us discussed the case, but Captain Nichols, about
the time we got in from the jail about 3:30, when we started writing
that report over there----
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes, sir.
Mr. McMILLON. Captain Nichols’ instructions were for each of us to
write what we had been doing.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Uh-huh.
Mr. McMILLON. What we had been doing, facts about it, instructed us
not to talk to any other man about it, that he wanted each man’s own
report, which I wrote my own report. After I had written my report and
turned it in, there has been a lot of conversation about it. I have
discussed it with numerous people.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did anybody from the homicide bureau question you about
the statement that Ruby made?
Mr. McMILLON. May have been, but I don’t remember when. Something about
I was supposed to sign an affidavit to them or something, but I don’t
believe I ever signed any affidavit to them, some fact that I was----
Mr. GRIFFIN. How soon after you heard this statement from Ruby were you
questioned by homicide detectives concerning that statement?
Mr. McMILLON. I don’t think I was ever to the point where we could say
questioned by them. It seems to me like one of them asked me in the
hall, “Did you hear him say so and so, did you hear this, that and the
other, could you testify to this, that and the other, did you hear
it?” It came up in a couple of days, but, as far as I know, I didn’t
sign an affidavit.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you testify at the trial?
Mr. McMILLON. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you testify about having heard this statement?
Mr. McMILLON. How he entered the basement?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. McMILLON. Okay. I believe you are going to be a little more briefed
on it when you get the fourth report. It is covered.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right.
Mr. McMILLON. There is four reports, he only has three, but anyway that
is the statement that I made at this departmental investigation.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let me hand you an exhibit marked 5015. That is something
you prepared, diagram, Commerce, Main, Pearl, and Expressway. Would you
sign that and date it? Let me hand you what has been marked as Exhibit
5020, which is a copy of a copy, which you provided us of your original
handwritten statement of November 24 to Chief Curry. Would you look
that over so you are certain that that is a true and accurate copy and
then, if you feel it is true and accurate, would you sign it and date
it? Would you prefer to do that out in the hall?
Mr. McMILLON. It won’t be but just a minute here.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Okay.
Mr. McMILLON. Okay.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Listen, Tom. I appreciate your coming up here.
TESTIMONY OF FORREST V. SORRELS
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