Mr. EBERHARDT. Aisleway, all news photographers.
Mr. GRIFFIN. That leads to the back of the room.
Mr. EBERHARDT. Okay. And the rest of them back here stood up on these
tables. When the front tables got full, they all stood up, and Ruby was
over here.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. Will you put “Ruby” on that?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Then they proceeded to ask him questions, take his
picture, what have you, and somebody, the chief, I don’t remember which
one of the chiefs, said, “All right. Take him out.” And they took him
out, and I remained, and when they took him out, here they all come.
Mr. GRIFFIN. After Oswald was taken out, were there any people still
standing up on those tables?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No; they got off, and, of course, Henry Wade was up here
at the desk.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Mark “Henry Wade” there.
Mr. EBERHARDT. Then they all run for him, and you couldn’t see Wade for
the reporters around him.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. Were the reporters between you and Henry Wade?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. So the reporters had their back to you?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, could you hear the questions that were being asked by
the reporters?
Mr. EBERHARDT. I could hear most of them; yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Could you hear Henry Wade’s answers?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was there any difference in the way that you could hear
Henry Wade’s answers as opposed to the way you could hear the questions?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Well, the questions were coming from all over the room.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was Henry Wade speaking through a microphone?
Mr. EBERHARDT. They kept hollering for him to turn on the microphone.
At first, he hadn’t gotten it turned on, but they hollered at him, and
he turned it on.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was there any substantial difference between your ability
to hear Wade----
Mr. EBERHARDT. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. As opposed to your ability to hear the reporters?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Were there any times when there were people speaking when
you couldn’t hear them, reporters asking questions?
Mr. EBERHARDT. No; they shout. They shout from the crowd. Very
ill-mannered people, the way they conducted that thing. There is no--I
mean they don’t have any concern for any of their other people or not.
It is every man for himself. They just run, and if they run over one
of their own, they do, that is all, and it is mass confusion. Whenever
they left these tables and what have you, they just come up there.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I am going to mark this, step over here and get a pen.
While I am marking this particular document, I would like for you to
look at the report of your interview and read it over and then I am
going to ask you if there are any additions or corrections you want to
make.
Mr. EBERHARDT. Did you want me to deliver that “Dear Chief” copy to you?
Mr. GRIFFIN. If you would, send it over.
Mr. EBERHARDT. Okay.