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. GRIFFIN. Do you remember who told you that or how you came to learn
that?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes. I mentioned yesterday that there was a radio reporter
from New York City whose name escaped me and I believe I----
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you have that name now?
Mr. KANTOR. I believe I have it in my notes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right.
Mr. KANTOR. The name of the reporter as I have it in here in these
notes is Ike Pappas. And--do you want me to read to you what I have
here?
Mr. GRIFFIN. If that is the most accurate thing you can give us.
Mr. KANTOR. Yes. This is what I recalled from memory as soon as I got
back from Dallas and read into the tape recorder and this is the way
I wrote it down from that. This describes the meeting in the assembly
room, in the police assembly room, shortly after Friday night going
into Saturday.
“Sunday afternoon District Attorney Henry Wade was to say to the press
that Jack Ruby was present Friday night during that strange press
conference. I understand or I am told.
“A New York City radio reporter, Ike Pappas, corrected Henry and said
that he, Pappas, had been talking with Ruby in the assembly room and
Ruby had given him a card and had invited him to be his guest in the
Carousel when it reopened. Pappas still carried the card in his wallet;
said that he brought Ruby over to the District Attorney and that the
D.A. seemed to know Mr. Ruby. Henry smiled but gave no answer, after
first saying that Ruby was mistaken for being a reporter.”
The time which I referred to here that Mr. Wade smiled was when Ike
Pappas reminded Henry Wade on Sunday that he had talked to Ruby on
Friday night.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, are you saying there that Pappas learned from Wade or
that you learned from Wade that Ruby had interrupted him, interrupted
Wade at the press conference?
Mr. KANTOR. It wasn’t so much that I learned it. This was an
announcement made by Wade Sunday afternoon or Sunday evening in that
same police assembly room to a gathering of reporters among whom I was
present in which he said that he understood that Ruby had been present
Friday night, and then Ike Pappas said, “You know that he was present
because the three of us were talking.”
Mr. GRIFFIN. I see. What is the reference that you had in there. I
thought I understood the reference in there that Ruby interrupted Wade
at some point in the press conference. Is that written in there or did
I hear it incorrectly?
Mr. KANTOR. I think that is something you asked me about yesterday,
wasn’t it, about an interruption of which I wasn’t sure?
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Why don’t we do this: I am going to mark the pages that we
are going to photostat here with separate exhibit numbers on your book,
and then, if I may, have these pages photostated, and give you the
complete notebook back because we are going to take the full notebook.
In other words, I would like to write down at the bottom of the page a
number, if I could.
Mr. KANTOR. You mean you want to remove the page?
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