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. No; they have three runways running out from the stage, and
the customers are seated along and around the runways, and they can
either be alone or with somebody, you would never know, you had no way
of telling.
Mr. HUBERT. You don’t recollect whether the man who might have been
Oswald was alone or was with someone else?
Mr. CROWE. No; you can’t tell the way they are seated.
Mr. HUBERT. By the way, with reference to those four pictures
identified as Exhibits Nos. 5212, 5221, 5205, and 5206 in the
deposition of C. L. Crafard, are you able to state that you recognize
those pictures generally as being the interior of the Carousel Club?
Mr. CROWE. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. What is your present thought as to the possibility that the
man that you had previously spoken about in the pictures identified as
Exhibits Nos. 5205 and 5206 of the deposition of Crafard, may have been
the man that you stated was a part of your memory act a week prior to
the death of the President?
Mr. CROWE. It is a possibility.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you think it is a greater possibility that from the
pictures you have seen of Oswald that it was Oswald than that it was
the man in the pictures, Exhibits Nos. 5205 and 5206?
Mr. CROWE. No; I wouldn’t say it was greater or any less.
Mr. HUBERT. In other words, having seen the pictures of Oswald and
having seen the pictures of the man in five, Exhibits Nos. 5206 and
5205, your thought is that it could have been either?
Mr. CROWE. Right.
Mr. HUBERT. That you do not favor the identification of one over the
other in terms of strength of identification?
Mr. CROWE. No.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you receive any sums of money or any kind of recompense
for any story or appearance you may have made concerning this matter of
your having possibly seen Oswald in the Carousel?
Mr. CROWE. Definitely not.
Mr. HUBERT. Have you anything else, Mr. Crowe, that you would like to
add?
Mr. CROWE. I was just taking a breath to say that the only reason why
Oswald was mentioned and thought of was because of the possibility
of being or that I thought he was one of a part of a series of
coincidences. And the coincidences was the only thing that I had in
mind.
Mr. HUBERT. All right.
Now, Mr. Crowe, neither I nor Mr. Griffin have ever interviewed you
before the commencement of this deposition, is that correct?
Mr. CROWE. That is correct, yes.
Mr. HUBERT. That is to say all of the examination or conversation or
contact between us has been in this room and while the reporter was
recording it, is that correct?
Mr. CROWE. Right.
Mr. HUBERT. All right, sir, thank you very much.
TESTIMONY OF CHARLES BATCHELOR
The testimony of Charles Batchelor was taken at 1 p.m., on July 13,
1964, in the office of the U.S. attorney, 301 Post Office Building,
Bryan and Ervay Streets, Dallas, Tex., by Mr. Leon D. Hubert, Jr.,
assistant counsel of the President’s Commission. Sam Kelley, assistant
attorney general of Texas, was present.
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