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. SORRELS. I do not remember just exactly the time, but it was some
time after that when Jack Ruby was brought to Captain Fritz’ office,
and Captain Fritz questioned him. I was present at that time and heard
Captain Fritz interrogate him and made some notes and wrote them up.
And I also at that time asked him a few questions myself, on some
points I wanted to clarify.
Mr. HUBERT. Were you there from the beginning of the interview between
Ruby and Fritz, or did you arrive when it was already going on?
Mr. SORRELS. No; I was there at the beginning, because I heard Captain
Fritz tell him of course he did not have to make a statement and so on
and so forth, and Ruby said, “Well, I will answer your questions, but
some of them I may not want to answer, and I will tell you so.”
Mr. HUBERT. Were you introduced to him?
Mr. SORRELS. No; I had talked to him up in the jail there.
Mr. HUBERT. Were you present during the entire interview?
Mr. SORRELS. As I recall it, I was, on that one interview.
Mr. HUBERT. Can you tell us who else was present?
Mr. SORRELS. No; I do not recall who else was there.
As I recall, there was other officers there in the room with Captain
Fritz, but I do not recall who.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, you say you had made notes as Captain Fritz was
interrogating him. Do you have those notes?
Mr. SORRELS. Yes; I have the notes here.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you have notes also of the first interview?
Mr. SORRELS. Yes; I read some of the stuff awhile ago from those notes.
Mr. HUBERT. Is there any reason of security or otherwise why we could
not get photostats of them for the record?
Mr. SORRELS. Not that I know of.
They may not mean much to anyone else, because it is just something
jotted down to refresh my memory. They are not in very good order, or
anything like that. And I don’t know whether it would mean too much to
anyone else.
As far as I know----
Mr. HUBERT. You have no objections?
Mr. SORRELS. No.
Mr. HUBERT. I take it those notes were made contemporaneously with the
interviews, as they went on?
Mr. SORRELS. The ones of Ruby were; yes. Now, there is other stuff in
here that had nothing to do with that.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, we are interested of course only in the Ruby ones.
But you testified a little while ago, and you seemed to be referring
to notes, about what Ruby said, and what happened and so forth in the
first interview, and then also in the second interview.
The notes that you referred to on both occasions were made
contemporaneously with the interview. That is, they were not made at a
later date?
Mr. SORRELS. That is correct. Now, there is other stuff in this
notebook. Like I went up to the identification bureau to check on
his record and so forth, and got his detailed description, and his
fingerprint classification--that had nothing to do with the interview.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I think we ought to take that to show what the practice
was.
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