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. COX. Yes; I will explain it to you. I was talking to a reserve
captain in the basement. Let me think of his name. Captain Kris, I
believe. We were talking about the thing happening, and also what
people had said, and this news reporter went from there. In other
words, that is the way he got it.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you talk to this man, Joe Sherman?
Mr. COX. Yes. He came into the conversation. Asked me if I knew Jack
Ruby, and I said I once worked for him at that night club, the Vegas
Club, and that is how that thing got in the paper. As far as me saying
he had been in the basement, or how he had been in there, that was just
strictly his say.
Mr. HUBERT. For the record so we get it straight, let me read to you
what he said, and then I am going to ask you if that is the truth or
not.
Police Sgt. R. A. Cox said he once worked for Jack Ruby as a special
officer in the night club he once operated on Oak Lawn. He said that
Ruby had a camera with him or when he entered the basement in the
Dallas police station Sunday morning. Did you tell that to Joe Sherman?
Mr. COX. No.
Mr. HUBERT. Now I think you were about to explain.
Mr. COX. I told Kris somebody said “he even had a camera.” That is how
that happened. I didn’t say that he had one. I said “someone said he
had one.”
Mr. HUBERT. Now at what time did this conversation with Kris occur
which was overheard by Mr. Sherman?
Mr. COX. Well, it was after I came in out of the street.
Mr. HUBERT. I think you said you came in out of the street about 20
minutes after?
Mr. COX. About 20 minutes after; that’s right.
Mr. HUBERT. You were standing where?
Mr. COX. In the basement. In fact, in that hall where it goes into
the----
Mr. HUBERT. So that your point is, you did not say this to Kris, but
this reporter just picked it up?
Mr. COX. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. The police reporter just heard you saying something about a
camera, but did not hear you say that the people or somebody was saying
that he had a camera?
Mr. COX. That’s right.
Mr. HUBERT. You had heard some people say he had a camera?
Mr. COX. Said he came in with the newsman.
Mr. HUBERT. Who did you hear that from?
Mr. COX. Just conversation. There was a lot of talk after that happened.
Mr. HUBERT. You don’t recall any particular person that you got that
from?
Mr. COX. No; sure don’t. I told Captain Solomon about it after it
happened, after that statement came out. I told him it wasn’t true,
right away.
Mr. HUBERT. When did you first learn that it was Ruby involved?
Mr. COX. When I was in the street. It was on the radio. I was still
in the street when it came over the radio that someone had shot him,
and then when I walked down into the basement after I left the street,
someone said that Jack Ruby had shot Oswald. That is when I first knew
it.
Mr. HUBERT. When did you first hear anything about a camera.
Mr. COX. In the basement. There were a lot of people gathered talking,
a lot of officers. You know what I mean.
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