Mr. HUBERT. Shortly after?
Mr. CLARDY. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. What did you ask him, and what did he reply? What did you
ask him first?
Mr. CLARDY. I asked him how he got into the basement and how long he
had been there. I don't know whether that is the exact words I asked
him in or not, and he said that Lieutenant Pierce, or he called him
Rio Pierce--I believe said Rio Pierce, Lt. Rio Pierce drove out in the
car and the officer stepped out from the ramp momentarily to talk to
Lieutenant Pierce, or said something to him, and I come in behind him
right on down the ramp, and says, "When I got approximately halfway
down the ramp I heard somebody holler, 'Hey, you,' but I don't know
whether he was hollering at me or not, but I just ducked my head and
kept coming."
Mr. HUBERT. Did he say anything further?
Mr. CLARDY. Further stated, said, "If I had planned this I couldn't
have had my timing better." Said, "It was one chance in a million." Or
something to that effect. Said, "If I had planned this, I couldn't have
had my timing any better."
Mr. HUBERT. Did he make any statement to you as to why he had done it?
Mr. CLARDY. He said--no, somebody--I was going to ask him, and I am
sure some other officer asked him as to why. He said, "Somebody had to
do it. You all couldn't."
Mr. HUBERT. Is that the only explanation he offered?
Mr. CLARDY. Well, later on we talked to him a little further and he
went into this long story about how much he thought of President
Kennedy, and how he was remorseful. Didn't want Mrs. Kennedy to have to
come to testify on a trial, and----
Mr. HUBERT. Did he say anything here to indicate that he had any
accomplices in his act?
Mr. CLARDY. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he mention to you that he had been to the Western Union
that morning?
Mr. CLARDY. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he say anything about where his car was?
Mr. CLARDY. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he say anything about there being a dog in it?
Mr. CLARDY. Sir, I recall that he said there was some money in the car.
I--I don't recall him saying it in my presence, about the dog being in
it. I do recall that he talked later about some dogs that he had that
he thought so much of.
Mr. HUBERT. All right, now, a bit earlier when I asked you whether or
not there were any omissions from the documents, Exhibits Nos. 5061,
5062, and 5063, you indicated there was an omission concerning what had
been said to you by some people who had talked to you. I think that is
what the omission--it was something along that line. Do you recall what
that was now?
Mr. CLARDY. Well, I think some of the stuff that we have gone into
there that you have asked me as to some of the things that were said,
or on down the line that I don't--I don't recall any of the FBI agents
asking me who come up there and talked to him, whether they did or not,
I don't know.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, can you tell me what you had in mind a little while
ago in the deposition when you said, "Yes, this is all right, but there
has been omitted something," and I told you at that time, "Well, we'll
come back to it a bit later," and now, I am coming back to it. I was
wondering just what you had in mind when you stated that there had been
an omission?
Mr. CLARDY. I don't believe it is in that report that Secret Service
agent, Mr. Sorrels, came up shortly after we arrived and talked to Mr.
Ruby.