Mr. EBERHARDT. Let me make you a better picture.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You are going to go down in history. A thousand years from
now, they are going to look at this and say, “That is what Eberhardt
did.” I have marked this diagram that you have made of the assembly
room Exhibit No. 5025, and I have labeled it “Police Assembly Room,
Oswald Press Conference.” Now, this is the diagram that you have just
finished drawing, is it not?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Would you sign that and date it? [Pause.] You are going to
mess up the historians. The year is--1267, that is your police number?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I thought you were writing the year on there. Now, I am
going to also mark for identification the report of Smith and Chapoton.
Mr. EBERHARDT. I don’t like that, I mean this part here, I mean they
didn’t get this exactly right.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. Let us change it. Let me mark it, “Dallas,
Texas, Detective Eberhardt, 3-25-64, Exhibit 5026.” Now, would you look
at that, and what corrections or changes do you want to make?
Mr. EBERHARDT. This part, asked me how come Jack had my phone number.
My baby, my youngest one, when she was born----
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. EBERHARDT. He knew I was a Catholic. He was Jewish, which has
nothing to do with it. It is a christening card, not a present. I
don’t know if you know anything about our religion. When a child is
christened, it is pretty big in our religion. He wanted to send her a
christening card, and that is when I invited him to my house.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When was that?
Mr. EBERHARDT. That was about 2 weeks after the baby was born.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When was the baby born?
Mr. EBERHARDT. May 8.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Wouldn’t this be an accurate statement, “Because this was
the day that Eberhardt’s child was born, Ruby wanted to send the child
a christening card”?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Why don’t you cross it out and put “christening card”?
Mr. EBERHARDT. Okay.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, put your initials there.
Mr. EBERHARDT. And I invited him to come out to the house and see the
baby when she was christened. He had never been to my home nor I to his.