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. I am also going to hand you what has been marked as
“Exhibit No. 7, Washington, D.C., Seth Kantor Deposition, June 3, 1964.”
(The document referred to was marked Seth Kantor Exhibit No. 7 for
identification.)
Mr. GRIFFIN. This purports to be a copy of an interview report prepared
by Mr. Drain in connection with an interview conducted with you in
Dallas also on December 3.
Have you had a chance to read this report?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes; I have just looked it over, and it is, to the best of
my knowledge, accurate.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I am going to mark another document as “Exhibit No. 8,
Washington, D.C., June 3, 1964, Seth Kantor Deposition.”
(The document referred to was marked Seth Kantor Exhibit No. 8 for
identification.)
Mr. GRIFFIN. This document purports to be a copy of an interview report
prepared by Special Agents Kaiser and Miller, of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the interview taking place with you on January 2, 1964
here in Washington. Have you had a chance to look that over?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes; I have.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Are there any changes that you would make in that?
Mr. KANTOR. There was something I thought I saw in here.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Take your time.
Mr. KANTOR. All right.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Meanwhile, for the record, that Exhibit No. 7 is a
document which consists of 5 pages and it is numbered consecutively at
the bottom 431 through pages 435.
Mr. KANTOR. I have seen something in here which made me think of a
letter I have received since the occasion of this interview with the
FBI.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Go ahead and tell us about it.
Mr. KANTOR. The letter was from Jack Ruby, from the county jail in
Dallas. I wrote him approximately at the end of January from my office,
on Scripps-Howard stationery, telling him that I had made a couple of
attempts to see him in Dallas, both in the city jail and in the county
jail, and had failed, and asked him if I could ask him some questions.
A letter postmarked February 2, I believe it was, in San Francisco,
was received by me then from Melvin Belli, who was Ruby’s attorney at
the time, thanking me for writing to Jack and saying that he had told
Jack to forward on any mail that came from reporters, and that Jack had
done the right thing and that he was sure--he being Belli--that I would
understand that Ruby could not comment before the trial.
Then I received a letter postmarked the next day which would have been
February 3d, from Ruby, from his Dallas county jail cell, telling me
he had forwarded on my letter to Belli and apologizing for having done
so but he was told to do that. And in the letter he made an offhanded
personal remark that he had liked to follow my stories in the Fort
Worth Press, which is a Scripps-Howard paper, and was in hopes of
seeing me again.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Had you in your letter to Ruby made any reference to the
fact that you had seen him at Parkland Hospital on the 22d?
Mr. KANTOR. No; I did not.
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