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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XII - Page 63« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Capt. O. A. Jones)

I don't know how long that we worked that night for sure, but I do know it was after 2 o'clock when the FBI Agent Vince Drain left the city hall with some--some evidence he was going to take, and that was about 2 o'clock, Saturday morning, the 24th.

Mr. Hubert.
Did you go home----
Captain JONES. Yes, I did go home for possibly 2 to 3 hours and laid down. Didn't rest very much. We came back down Saturday and continued working with Captain Fritz. Making my offices available and my men available to him during the day Saturday until Saturday evening when we filed our--our bureau filed the assault to murder charge on Oswald for the shooting of Governor Connally, which is our bureau that, assault to murder--that handles assault to murder.
Captain Fritz' bureau handles murder, and by this time I--that was filed, I began to help take incoming calls and to assist in any way that I could up there in the administration offices. Stayed up there until at least nearly midnight Saturday night. Went home, got a few hours of troubled sleep that night. Before I left, Chief Stevenson told me that it looked like my cases were all filed, everything was in pretty good shape, I might as well go ahead and take my vacation as I had planned and I told him I couldn't enjoy--a little fishing trip was what I had planned--until it was all over.
Mr. Hubert.
Let me go back a moment. There was a lineup of some kind on the night of Friday, November 22, at which Oswald was brought into the lineup in the assembly room at the police department, at which a number of news media were present.
Captain JONES. Yes, sir.
Mr. Hubert.
Were you present that night?
Captain JONES. No, sir; I was on the third floor at that time.
Mr. Hubert.
Do you know Jack Ruby?
Captain JONES. I have known him.
Mr. Hubert.
Just state how well and under what circumstances.
Captain JONES. Yes, sir; I will be glad to do that. And I do want to ask---can I say something off the record here?
Mr. Hubert.
Yes. (Discussion off the record.)
Mr. Hubert.
Get back on the record.
During the off-the-record period, Captain Jones simply explained to me that he had omitted something from his comments relative to what?
Captain JONES. Relative to knowing Jack Ruby. I've got to find--
Mr. Hubert.
Relative to what document?
Captain JONES. 5056. Document 5056; that would be the first complete paragraph on page 3, where it states, "Jones states that he did know Ruby and had known him prior to 1952, when he ran the Silver Spur, a nightclub on South Central. He stated that prior to 1952, he was a lieutenant covering this district and did go into the Silver Spur, at the most, six times looking for white subjects."
Mr. Hubert.
Would you state your comments on that?
Captain JONES. The comment is that, "Jones stated that he did know Ruby and had known him prior to 1952, when he ran the Silver Spur, a nightclub on South Ervay." The next sentence should read, "He stated that prior to 1952, he was a detective assigned mostly to colored cases, but that occasionally we were assigned cases involving white suspects, and on a few occasions did go in the Silver Spur during those investigations."
Mr. Hubert.
All right.
Captain JONES. I was asked how many times, and I could not estimate how many times. I said, "Not over six times, probably, altogether."
Mr. Hubert.
Let me put it this way to you. Did you know him well enough so that you would have recognized him had he walked into a room?
Captain JONES. That is a question in my mind that I doubt very much that I would have. I did recognize him in the basement after someone said--before I ever saw who it ever was in custody, that it was Jack Ruby, and when I was told that in advance I did recognize him. Otherwise, it is possible that I might have recognized him had I been given that opportunity but I did not have the opportunity.
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