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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XV - Page 107« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of William D. , Jr. Crowe)

Mr. Crowe.
I don't recall that. I had seen a picture in the newspaper. But I don't recall being shown a picture.
Mr. Hubert.
Do you recall being interviewed by the FBI and Secret Service?
Mr. Crowe.
Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
At that time, didn't they display a picture of Oswald to you?
Mr. Crowe.
They may have, I don't remember.
Mr. Hubert.
Do you recall what your recollection concerning the identification of Oswald in Ruby's club was when you spoke to the FBI and the agents of the Secret Service?
Mr. Crowe.
That I had thought possibly I had seen Oswald the week before.
Mr. Hubert.
By the week before you mean the week commencing on the 11th?
Mr. Crowe.
Right.
Mr. Hubert.
Can you now or have you ever been able to fix the time of that possible event more closely than just simply the week before?
Mr. Crowe.
No, no.
Mr. Hubert.
Now when did it first occur to you that you had seen Oswald in the club?
Mr. Crowe.
When I saw his picture in the paper Saturday or Sunday morning, I guess it was.
Mr. Hubert.
Did you convey your impression to anyone?
Mr. Crowe.
Not before the radio newsman in front of the club.
Mr. Hubert.
Is there any reason why you did not?
Mr. Crowe.
I had seen no one before then. Hardly anybody to speak to.
Mr. Hubert.
I am thinking from this point of view. You tell me that you had on Saturday come to some tentative conclusion that possibly you had seen his man in the Carousel Club the week before.
Mr. Crowe.
Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
Did it occur to you that that information could be valuable to the police?
Mr. Crowe.
No.
Mr. Hubert.
And you spoke to no one at all from the time you woke up on the afternoon of the 22d at 4 o'clock, until you met these radio people in front of the club?
Mr. Crowe.
Oh, yes, I had been out at Tom Palmer's house that Saturday night.
Mr. Hubert.
Was that the only person you saw or conversed with?
Mr. Crowe.
Actually, yes.
Mr. Hubert.
Did you mention to him that you had thought you had seen or it was possible that you had seen Oswald?
Mr. Crowe.
No.
Mr. Hubert.
Can you tell us why not, because may I suggest to you that it would have been quite a topic of conversation. Also the coincidences that you mentioned were almost there at that time?
Mr. Crowe.
I never drew up the series of coincidences until Sunday morning, because the fourth coincidence didn't happen until then.
Mr. Hubert.
But the third one had that is to say--I guess it is the second one, the shooting of the President by Oswald.
Mr. Crowe.
Yes; which was only two.
Mr. Hubert.
And your recognition that you had seen Oswald or thought you had, or it was possible that you had, in the club the week before.
Mr. Crowe.
And I never put them together until Sunday morning.
Mr. Hubert.
But you tell us now that you have a distinct recollection of having thought to yourself when you saw Oswald, Oswald's picture in the Paper that "I have seen this man and I saw him, I think, in the Carousel Club last week." Although you didn't convey that to anybody?
Mr. Crowe.
No.
Mr. Hubert.
That actually occurred, that thought went through your mind?
Mr. Crowe.
I would say so, yes.
Mr. Hubert.
Is it at all possible that it first crystallized in your mind as a conscious thought when you were speaking to the radio people?
Mr. Crowe.
I thought of it the whole series of coincidences, and all of it together when I was driving from my hotel to the club that Sunday afternoon.
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