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. Well, maybe we would be better to get the change of
personnel first before we get into the statement. Could you clarify
that--for instance--if McMillon left and someone else took his place
and Clardy left, if you have a notation of that it will be helpful.
Mr. HALL. Officer Haake was some distance away at the outer door.
He was present there but I doubt seriously if he heard the complete
interview.
Mr. HUBERT. Was he inside or outside the outer door?
Mr. HALL. He was outside.
Mr. HUBERT. Outside the outer door?
Mr. HALL. Yes; Detectives McMillon and Clardy were present up until
3:15 p.m. when Jack Ruby was taken to the office of Capt. Will Fritz,
the homicide and robbery bureau of the Dallas Police Department. After
Ruby came back upstairs to the jail from the interview with Captain
Fritz, apparently Detectives McMillon and Clardy had gone off duty
and from that time on I was alone with Ruby in that cell block area
interviewing him.
Mr. HUBERT. There was, then, sort of an interruption of your
interviewing?
Mr. HALL. Yes; there were interruptions.
Mr. HUBERT. How long did this interruption take, so that we might, for
instance, fix the time when the second part of this began, if you are
able to help us on that?
Mr. HALL. There was more than one interruption, yes, sir; and I first
entered the cell where Ruby was confined at 12:40 p.m. on November
24, 1963. Ruby conferred with Attorney Tom Howard from 1:58 p.m. to
2:02 p.m. He was then examined by Dr. Fred A. Bieberdorf (spelling)
B-i-e-b-e-r-d-o-r-f, at 2:06 p.m. and I interviewed Ruby again from
2:24 p.m. until 3:15 p.m. I then returned to interviewing Jack Ruby
from 4:30 until 5:30 p.m.
Mr. HUBERT. And at 5:30 p.m. your interviewing was over with?
Mr. HALL. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. And, as I understand it, then McMillon and Clardy were
there from the time you began at 12:40 until the time you first
stopped, that is, at 2:24, roughly?
Mr. HALL. McMillon and Clardy were actually with me from 12:40 until
3:15, because at the time Ruby was taken down to another floor to talk
with his attorney and be examined by the doctor, McMillon, Clardy and I
all went to the floor where he was taken, so we were all together all
during that time from 12:40 p.m. until 3:15 p.m.
Mr. HUBERT. Then, you reinterviewed him for another hour, from 4:30 to
5:30?
Mr. HALL. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, from 3:15 to 4:30 he was being interviewed by Captain
Fritz?
Mr. HALL. He was interviewed by Captain Fritz and then he was arraigned
before Justice of the Peace Pierce McBride on a charge of shooting and
killing Lee Harvey Oswald. Then he was returned to the fifth floor of
the jail where he was searched by the jailers and given a white shirt
and trousers as jail clothing and then returned to his cell. That is
what occurred between 3:15 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Mr. HUBERT. Were you present during that period, 3:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.?
Mr. HALL. Yes, sir.
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