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
Captain TALBERT. I had several conversations from Parkland Hospital on
the telephone after the shooting of Oswald.
Mr. HUBERT. Would you tell us about them, please?
Captain TALBERT. Well, I was at Parkland to clear the hospital and make
sure that the chaos or confusion didn’t transmit into the hospital
itself, and also secure the area where the prisoner was being operated
on. And the Governor was there. There was a peculiar situation in that
he was on the same floor in close proximity to the operating room where
Oswald was being operated on. I was trying to get all the confusion
away from the room he was in. He was in the intensive care room. As
soon as personnel was placed, I started making telephone calls trying
to check to find out how the fellow got in the basement, the fellow
being referred to, of course, as Ruby. And I don’t recall a specific
conversation with Lieutenant Pierce, although I am sure I did talk to
him.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you recall anyone else you spoke to?
Captain TALBERT. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Who would that be?
Captain TALBERT. I spoke to R. E. Vaughn. I spoke to Nelson. I spoke
to, I believe, now let me see, I think I got a hold of Jez who was on
the Commerce Street entrance. I was contacting the men on the various
entrances to see how it could have happened, how he could have got in
there. Is there such a thing as my correcting an error I made in my
first deposition here?
Mr. HUBERT. Certainly; absolutely.
Captain TALBERT. I said in my first deposition, and I recall that after
leaving, after my conversation with Chief Curry on the telephone that
morning, I didn’t talk to him again that day. And for some reason or
other, I overlooked the fact that I did talk to him from the hospital.
I talked to him twice, possibly three times. I called him, or rather
was called by him at the hospital to find out what the condition of
Oswald, the existing condition was, and then I called him back sometime
during the middle of the operation when I got a report on it, and
called back again to tell him the time of Oswald’s death immediately
after his death.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you speak to him about how the security had broken down
during any of those three conversations?
Captain TALBERT. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you see Patrick Dean, Sergeant Dean at Parkland?
Captain TALBERT. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you speak to him?
Captain TALBERT. Yes, sir. As a matter of fact, he had assigned some of
the men out there.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he say anything to you about what Ruby had told him as
to how he had gotten into the basement?
Captain TALBERT. Yes, sir. That was the first information that I had
received on how Ruby said he got into the basement, was from Dean.
Mr. HUBERT. I think you said that you spoke to Vaughn and Jez who were
respectively at the Main Street and Commerce Street entrances?
Captain TALBERT. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. When you spoke to Dean, was that before or after you had
spoken to Vaughn?
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