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 know. But that is just as a matter of explanation.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you think it was written on that date because Mr. Kelley
told you shortly before that date, to wit, February 3, that you should
write it, or is it your impression that Mr. Kelley had told you long
before it was written to write it?
Mr. SORRELS. There is a possibility that he may have told me before. I
don’t recall it specifically. But I do know that Inspector Kelley had
instructed me to write up the report.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you recall having a conversation with Mr. Burt Griffin,
the gentleman who is in the office now, concerning what you knew about
what Ruby had said in your interviews with him?
Mr. SORRELS. Yes; I do. And that refreshed my memory a bit, because I
recall that Inspector Kelley, after I had talked to Mr. Griffin on the
telephone--Inspector Kelley told me to get it written up, get it in
writing, about the interview, and get it in. I remember that now, since
you mention it.
Mr. HUBERT. So that actually the report was written because Inspector
Kelley instructed you to do so, and as you recall it he did so because
of the conversation with Mr. Griffin?
Mr. SORRELS. I would surmise that, because, as I recall it now, either
right after I got through talking to Mr. Griffin or shortly thereafter,
Mr. Kelley did instruct me to get the interview, as I recall it, in a
report, and get it in to him.
Mr. HUBERT. But normally I think you said this report would have been
written anyhow, without any suggestion by Mr. Kelley or anybody else?
Mr. SORRELS. Yes; that is right.
Mr. HUBERT. And it was your intent to write it, you say, but you didn’t
get around to it?
Mr. SORRELS. That is about the best explanation I know to make on it.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, do you recall a conversation with Chief Curry with
respect to what you knew that Ruby had said?
Perhaps I can identify the conversation a bit more by saying to you
that it had to do with a suggestion by you as to what the witnesses
who were members of the police department might be called in the
prosecution.
Mr. SORRELS. Oh, yes; I remember that.
Mr. HUBERT. Can you tell us, first of all, when it was?
Mr. SORRELS. As I recall, it was after the trial of Ruby had started,
or along about the time it was beginning to start. I contacted Chief
Curry and told him----
Mr. HUBERT. Is this by phone, or was it by personal interview?
Mr. SORRELS. No; as I recall it was by phone--that there were two
uniformed police officers that were present when I talked to Ruby on
the fifth floor of the city jail on the morning of November 24, and
that I had not warned Ruby of his constitutional rights and did not
know whether or not the statement that he had made to me would be
admissible in a trial in the event that the district attorney wanted to
use it.
But----
Mr. HUBERT. Had you been at that time consulted by the district
attorney with reference to your being a possible witness?
Mr. SORRELS. I do not recall that I had.
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