Mr. SORRELS. Yes, Captain Fritz asked him that.
Mr. HUBERT. And he said he came in through the ramp, I believe you said.
Mr. SORRELS. That is right.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he state at any time during that interview about any
intent to kill Oswald, to shoot him three times, and he is glad he was
dead?
Mr. SORRELS. I do not recall that.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, I am going to show you a document which is actually a
photostatic copy, or Xerox copy, of Commission Document 354, consisting
of four pages. I am going to mark that document for identification as
follows, to wit, “Deposition of Forrest Sorrels, Washington, D.C., May
6, 1964,” and I am signing my name to that, all of which is on the
right margin of the first page. I am placing my initials in the lower
right-hand corner of the second, third, and fourth pages. I ask you if
you can identify this document, or rather, the photostatic copy? Would
you state what it is?
Mr. SORRELS. This is a photocopy of a memorandum report titled
“Assassination of President Kennedy,” the second line of that caption,
“Jack Leon Ruby--slayer of Lee Harvey Oswald, charged with murder of
President Kennedy.” Submitted by me, Forrest V. Sorrels, on February
3, 1964. And it consists of three full pages and a portion of--about a
fifth of the fourth page.
Mr. HUBERT. I think your signature, or, rather, a photostatic copy of
your signature is on the front.
Mr. SORRELS. That is correct--on the front.
Mr. HUBERT. That is the report that you submitted to your superiors?
Mr. SORRELS. In Washington.
Mr. HUBERT. Which ultimately, of course, they sent. The report covers
the events of November 24, is that right?
Mr. SORRELS. That is right.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know why it was filed on February 3?
Mr. SORRELS. Why it was written on February 3? I was instructed by
Inspector Kelley to write up a memorandum on the interview that I had
with Jack Ruby, shortly after Oswald was shot by Ruby, and also the
interview that was had with Captain Fritz and Ruby at which I was
present on the same date.
Mr. HUBERT. When did you receive those instructions?
Mr. SORRELS. I cannot say exactly when I received them--probably within
a day or two, or it could have been longer, because due to the press of
other work and things arising out of the assassination, and its duties,
the other duties, it was not written as soon as it should have been.
And I may have been instructed some time before that to--as quick as I
could to get the memorandum prepared.
Mr. HUBERT. What I mean is that normally you would write such a report
as this in any case?
Mr. SORRELS. Yes, that is true.