Mr. HUBERT. Your residence?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Wait. Forty-three.
Mr. HUBERT. Your residence?
Mr. LEAVELLE. 7703 Rilla Avenue, Dallas, Tex.
Mr. HUBERT. What is your occupation, sir?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Police officer.
Mr. HUBERT. Dallas Police Department?
Mr. LEAVELLE. That’s right.
Mr. HUBERT. How long have you been so occupied?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Fourteen years, approximately.
Mr. HUBERT. How long have you held the position you now hold?
Mr. LEAVELLE. About 8 years.
Mr. HUBERT. What is that position?
Mr. LEAVELLE. A detective.
Mr. HUBERT. Any particular part of the department?
Mr. LEAVELLE. I work at the present time in the homicide and robbery
bureau.
Mr. HUBERT. Who is your immediate superior there?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Capt. Will Fritz.
Mr. HUBERT. And who is above him?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Chief Stevenson.
Mr. HUBERT. Who answers, in turn, to Chief Curry?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Now I pass to you two documents which you have read, and
which I now want to identify, by marking them as follows: The first
document, which purports to be a report by FBI Agent Bookhout, of an
interview with you on November 24, I am marking as follows: “Dallas,
Tex., March 25, 1964, Exhibit No. 5088. Deposition of J. R. Leavelle.”
I am signing my name below that, and marking the second page with my
initials, in the lower right-hand corner. The second document I am also
marking, “Dallas, Tex., March 25, 1964. Exhibit 5089, deposition of
J. R. Leavelle,” and signing my name also and placing my initials in
the lower right-hand corner of the second page of that document. The
second document, 5089, purports to be an FBI report of an interview
with you by Special Agents Bramblett and Logan. Now, addressing myself
first to the document which is marked 5088, I will ask you if you have
read that document?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. And whether or not it states substantially the truth?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Substantially so.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, did you find any errors in it?
Mr. LEAVELLE. No; I think that is all right.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you wish to delete or add anything to it?
Mr. LEAVELLE. No; let it stand.
Mr. HUBERT. With that, would you, please, sign your name below mine, if
you wish, and initial the second page below my initials. Now, I hand
you the document that I have marked for identification as Exhibit 5089,
and ask you the same questions with respect to that document.
Mr. LEAVELLE. Yes; I think this is the one that had the article in
there about the short interview, if it makes any difference.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, would you point out what paragraph you are talking
about?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Let me see if I can find it here. I am sure it was on
this one rather than the other one. There was one right here on the--on
the one Bookhout took. Now, let me see that again.
Mr. HUBERT. Here.
Mr. LEAVELLE. It is the contents of the last paragraph on the second
page, Mr. Hubert.
Mr. HUBERT. I think you are speaking of the third sentence of the last
paragraph on the second page, a sentence which reads as follows, to
wit: “He was never present while Oswald was being interviewed, nor
was he present while Ruby was being interviewed by the Dallas Police
officers.” I think you wish to comment upon that, do you not?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Correct that to read, “With the exception of possibly 15
minutes prior to the actual transfer began on the 24th.”
Mr. HUBERT. That is to say, after you had been selected as an officer
to whom----
Mr. LEAVELLE. Would handle the transfer.
Mr. HUBERT. You were directed to go to Captain Fritz’ office, and you
did so, is that right?
Mr. LEAVELLE. Of course, I was directed to go there early in the
morning. I have that. What I am referring to, of course, once I got
Oswald out of jail I stayed with him up to the end.
Mr. HUBERT. When did you get him out of jail?
Mr. LEAVELLE. I got him out of jail at, oh, I don’t remember the
exact time, but it was--it was between 9:30 that morning that I was
instructed to go get him by Captain Fritz from the jail, and bring
him to his office, which I did, and I went into his cell and put the
handcuffs on him inside the cell.