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. HUBERT. Now, Mr. Crull, I have previously handed you a document
consisting of three pages, which is a report of an interview of you by
FBI Agents Calvin Rice and John J. Flanagan, dated December 12, 1963,
which for the purpose of identification I have marked on the first page
in the right-hand margin thereof as follows:
“Dallas, Texas, July 14, 1964, Exhibit 1, deposition of Elgin Crull.”
I have signed my name below that, and on the second and third page I
have placed my initials in the lower right-hand corner of each of those
pages.
I think you have had an opportunity to read that document, and I will
now ask you if that document is correct as to the nature and effect
stated in the course of that interview, and whether it reflects the
facts as you remember them?
Mr. CRULL. In general, it does, but there are some details which are
inaccurate.
Mr. HUBERT. Now with respect to the details, I notice that you have
marked on the very last line of the second paragraph on page 1, a
little mark indicating that you wish to comment on that last line.
Would you state what you wish to say about it, please, sir?
Mr. CRULL. I believe that says simply that I went to the lake, to a
cabin. The only change is that there is no cabin. I have a boat on the
lake.
Mr. HUBERT. Other than that?
Mr. CRULL. Other than that, it is accurate.
Mr. HUBERT. Now in the next paragraph, which is the third paragraph on
page 1, you have put a little mark next to the statement that you heard
over the radio of Oswald having been shot.
Mr. CRULL. I did not hear it over the radio. I was called by the
operator of the marina, or one of his people, I do not remember which,
who had heard it over the radio.
Mr. HUBERT. Now on the next paragraph on page 1, that is to say,
paragraph 4, you marked next to the fifth line and also next to the
sixth, seventh, and eighth lines of that paragraph; first of all, with
reference to the statement that you had selected the prior chief of
police. That is to say, the chief of police prior to Chief Curry. Do
you have any comments to make about that?
Mr. CRULL. Yes; I didn’t select Chief Curry’s predecessor. He was
selected by my predecessor or one of my predecessors.
Mr. HUBERT. The chief of police who was in office prior to Chief Curry
was in that office when you became the city manager?
Mr. CRULL. That’s correct.
Mr. HUBERT. You kept him on?
Mr. CRULL. That’s correct.
Mr. HUBERT. Or perhaps it was thought that that was an appointment of
him? But nevertheless, we have a clarification on that.
Now that sentence continues and reads as follows: That you never
interfered with the operations of the police department, leaving it
entirely in the chief’s hands, as he did with other city departments. I
think you indicated you wished to address yourself to that thought?
Mr. CRULL. I think perhaps that gives the wrong impression, that
departments and department heads operate entirely on their own without
any supervision at all.
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