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. Really, you can erase it. With the normal procedure,
the precautions taken were adequate either way, with normal procedure.
But capricious, if as this investigation has developed, the entry of
Ruby occurred at the time and place in which he said it was, and which
apparently is true, capricious fate entered into it on the time element
for sure at the exit of a vehicle on an entrance ramp, which is the
first time that occurred in a number of years. Something I certainly
didn’t foresee, and that is what I was referring to when I said
elementary.
Mr. HUBERT. In your opinion, what would have been completely adequate
security against one-man action?
Captain TALBERT. Secret transfer.
Mr. HUBERT. By secret, you mean done in such a way and in such a manner
that there would not have been a crowd around? Transferred at night?
Captain TALBERT. No announcement. We know that now. It is quite obvious
now.
Mr. HUBERT. What you are saying is, to guard against one-man action
you have to do it in such a way that there are not a great many people
around?
Captain TALBERT. Anybody can be murdered by an individual who is
willing to give up his life to do so. I don’t care who it is or where
it is, he can be murdered if he wants to give up his life to do it
and has adequate time, and the only way to prevent it is to keep him
completely away from him and to do it effectively, it has to be a
surreptitious action. It can’t be an open action.
Mr. HUBERT. It can’t be, in other words, where there are lots of people
milling around?
Captain TALBERT. That’s right, or where a lot of people have knowledge
of it. If a lot of people have knowledge of the action, in itself that
constitutes a danger.
Mr. HUBERT. Captain Talbert, in your deposition on March 24, 1964, you
identified an exhibit which was given Exhibit No. 5066 then, which
contains at the very bottom of that page the following sentence, to
wit: “He stated in the rush to get into the basement where the loading
ramp was located and Oswald was being brought down from the jail, it
is highly possible that Jack Ruby may have walked down the ramp with
the newspapermen unnoticed.” Now two questions I would like to explore
there. What was the rush to get into the basement?
Captain TALBERT. I made an exception to that.
Mr. HUBERT. What was the exception?
Captain TALBERT. It either was through my semantics or their shorthand.
It just isn’t true. There was no rush.
Mr. HUBERT. Is that comment true about the second thought contained in
that sentence, and that is, “it is highly possible that Ruby may have
come along with the newspapermen unnoticed”?
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