Mr. HUBERT. Did he mention anything about he intended to shoot him
three times?
Mr. SORRELS. No; I did not hear that statement.
Mr. HUBERT. In other words, the only comments that you heard him state
which bear upon intent are those you have already made--that is to say,
somebody had to do it, and also that he wanted to show the world that a
Jew had guts?
Mr. SORRELS. No; I did not hear him say that somebody had to do it. I
heard him say that he guessed he had worked himself into a state of
insanity to where he had to do it, felt he had to do it.
Mr. HUBERT. But he did make the report saying he felt he had to show
the world that a Jew had guts?
Mr. SORRELS. Yes; that was very plain.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, when you left, who left with you?
Mr. SORRELS. As I recall, I went by myself, because when I got the
information about his background, as I related here, and got his
correct name and the information that he was operating alone on this
thing, that no one else was involved with him, and he did not know
Oswald, I then left in order to telephone that information to my
headquarters in Washington.
Mr. HUBERT. Can you state positively, therefore, to us that when you
left Dean was in the room?
Mr. SORRELS. I think he must have been, because, as I recall it, I went
down on the elevator by myself with the elevator operator.
Mr. HUBERT. And Dean was in the room at all times you were talking to
him?
Mr. SORRELS. As far as I know.
Mr. HUBERT. He did not leave with you?
Mr. SORRELS. No, sir; he did not.
Mr. HUBERT. The two other officers who were in uniform I think you
said, who were in the room at first, they were there all the time too?
Mr. SORRELS. As far as I know; yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. They did not leave when you left?
Mr. SORRELS. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. And if anybody else came in afterwards, they did not leave
when you left?
Mr. SORRELS. Not that I recall.
As I recall it, I think I went down alone, just the elevator operator
and myself. Of course he had my sidearm. I had to get my sidearm from
him. If there was anyone else there, I didn’t know.