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. CROWE. I never drew up the series of coincidences until Sunday
morning, because the fourth coincidence didn’t happen until then.
Mr. HUBERT. But the third one had that is to say--I guess it is the
second one, the shooting of the President by Oswald.
Mr. CROWE. Yes; which was only two.
Mr. HUBERT. And your recognition that you had seen Oswald or thought
you had, or it was possible that you had, in the club the week before.
Mr. CROWE. And I never put them together until Sunday morning.
Mr. HUBERT. But you tell us now that you have a distinct recollection
of having thought to yourself when you saw Oswald, Oswald’s picture in
the paper that “I have seen this man and I saw him, I think, in the
Carousel Club last week.” Although you didn’t convey that to anybody?
Mr. CROWE. No.
Mr. HUBERT. That actually occurred, that thought went through your mind?
Mr. CROWE. I would say so, yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Is it at all possible that it first crystallized in your
mind as a conscious thought when you were speaking to the radio people?
Mr. CROWE. I thought of it the whole series of coincidences, and all of
it together when I was driving from my hotel to the club that Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you mean to tell me then that prior to that time----
Mr. CROWE. I never gave it much thought.
Mr. HUBERT. You had not specifically thought that Oswald might have
been in the club?
Mr. CROWE. Specifically, I never gave it too much thought. The face was
familiar, and that was about it.
Mr. HUBERT. Is it fair to say that if you had actually thought on
Saturday that you had seen the killer of the President in the Carousel
Club the week before that you would, might, have mentioned that fact to
Mr. Palmer whom you visited on Saturday night?
Mr. CROWE. Not necessarily. We discussed the assassination of the
President in brief, and then they taught me how to play poker and
we didn’t talk about it. I didn’t care to talk about it. It was too
unpleasant for me.
Mr. HUBERT. What I am trying to get at is whether or not this thought
that you ultimately expressed to the newspapermen shortly after noon,
I take it, on the 24th, whether that thought actually existed as a
conscious mental process prior to that time or not?
Mr. CROWE. Not strongly, no. Just as a passing thought on and off, only
after I had heard that Ruby had shot Oswald and I started summing up
the coincidences, you know, and thinking of Oswald’s picture in the
paper, and seeing it again, and putting it all together.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you have occasion to call a man in Evansville, Ind., I
think, a friend of yours on a newspaper that day?
Mr. CROWE. David Hoy.
Mr. HUBERT. The day before?
Mr. CROWE. No; I said David Hoy.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you remember that?
Mr. CROWE. Sunday.
Mr. HUBERT. Was that before or after you told the newspaper people
about the coincidences?
Mr. CROWE. Before.
Mr. HUBERT. Where did you call from?
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