Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. LITCHFIELD. No; I just said, “I think I’ve seen him too,” I forgot
who it was I said that to, but the guy said. “I think I have seen him
or I think I know that guy,” and I just said, “Yes; I think I have seen
him, too.”
Mr. HUBERT. Did it occur to you that—then that it might have been that
you had seen him at Ruby’s place?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. I started trying to remember—everybody was sitting
around and saying, “Where have you seen him?” Trying to think, and I
thought about it and I remembered seeing a man similar to him, very
similar to him at the Carousel that night I was there.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you say that to anybody?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Just Don Green when I called him on the phone and then
when I went down to the police department.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you say that to any of the people you were playing
poker with?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. No; I did not.
Mr. HUBERT. Would you give us the names of the people you were playing
poker with, whose house was it at, first?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. J. W. Grubbs [spelling] G-r-u-b-b-s.
Mr. HUBERT. Where does he live?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Boy, I can’t tell you that—I can tell you how to go
there, but I don’t remember what street it is. You go out Beckley past
the A. Harris shopping center—I don’t remember the name of the street,
you turn left and then you went down a couple of blocks and you turn
left again—there were three cars of us and I followed. I don’t remember
the name of the street.
Mr. HUBERT. Would you tell us the names of some of the other people at
the poker game?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. J. W. Grubbs and there was Ernie Stoy [spelling]
E-r-n-i-e and S-t-o-y, and one fellow I just met, he just came in—I
didn’t know, and another fellow, gee, I sure wish I could remember his
name. I know him when I see him—they are always at the bowling alley,
he usually bets on the pot games, and he is a big heavy set black
headed fellow and Max Lewis was there.
Mr. HUBERT. [Spelling.] L-e-w-i-s?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Yes [spelling], L-e-w-i-s, and I think there was one
more—I don’t remember who that was.
Mr. HUBERT. They were all there throughout the game—were they all there
throughout the game?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. Max left Sunday morning and then returned.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, at the time it became known that Ruby had shot Oswald,
did you observe to anyone that you knew Ruby?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. I believe I did. I think everybody was saying whether
they knew him or not and I believe I did.
Mr. HUBERT. Did anyone else there know him?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. I think one or two others might have said that they
knew him.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know whether Grubbs knew him?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. No, sir; I don’t remember.
Mr. HUBERT. Who said they knew him?
Mr. LITCHFIELD. I could assume, but I don’t remember who said that they
knew him.
Mr. HUBERT. In any case, you did not at that time say that you thought
you had seen Oswald in the Carousel?
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