Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. KANTOR. Zoppi came out with a pool report on Jack Ruby’s sister,
which a number of reporters listened to and took notes on.
Mr. GRIFFIN. So you were actually interviewing Zoppi at that point?
Mr. KANTOR. That is strictly what it amounted to. I spoke to Captain
Will Fritz. I spoke to Captain Glen King. But I might add that from the
moment that Oswald was shot, we were really cut off. We were getting
no more news--whereas we had gotten from our standpoint marvelous
cooperation before--we were finding out nothing all of a sudden.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What did you hear Senator say in the few minutes that you
did listen to him?
Mr. KANTOR. I heard George Senator say that Jack Ruby had been upset,
very much upset, and had gotten up, I believe, rather late Sunday
morning and said that he was going to take one of his dogs down to the
club. And I heard him say that he had--that Jack Ruby had placed a call
to a brother in Detroit. And I remember Senator stressing quite heavily
that Ruby had spent the weekend in an upset condition, had cried, had
wept quite a bit. I did ask Senator, only because I think I missed the
opening parts of the mass interview going on out there in the hall--I
asked him how long he had roomed with Ruby, a couple of particulars
like that, I think--just basic stuff. What he did for a living.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now----
Mr. KANTOR. I had never heard of him before.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I want to go back a bit. About what time did you arrive in
the jail basement on Sunday, the 24th?
Mr. KANTOR. The transferral, as we understood it, was supposed to be
made at 10 o’clock. And I got up leisurely and was staying at the White
Plaza Hotel across the street, and made no effort to be there promptly
at 10 o’clock. The reason I did that is because Scripps-Howard wire to
its newspaper operates at night, and a morning event in itself is not
too awfully important.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How long were you there before the shooting took place?
Mr. KANTOR. I got there about approximately a quarter to 11. I was
checked three times for identification upon getting down to the
basement.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When you went down to the basement, did you remain the
entire time in that position “K” that you have marked there?
Mr. KANTOR. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Where were you when you first went into the basement?
Mr. KANTOR. The regular bank of elevators, that is those going
upstairs----
Mr. GRIFFIN. On the Harwood side?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes; are about here, are they not?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes; the reporter, of course, can’t tell, but just let’s
refer to them as the Harwood elevators.
Mr. KANTOR. Well, I walked into the building and went up to the third
floor first, and then rode the elevator down to the basement--that
is the regular elevator. When I stepped out of the elevator, I was
stopped almost immediately by an officer, and he would not accept my
credentials at all, even though I had a White House card and my old
Dallas police card, Texas State Police card.
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