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 christcried. He had never been to my home nor I to his.

Mr. Griffin.

Is there anything else----

Mr. Eberhardt.

No.

Mr. Griffin.

That you want to change on that?

Mr. Eberhardt.

No.

Mr. Griffin.

Is there anything else that you think might be of value to the Commission, either in connection with the Oswald killing----

Mr. Eberhardt.

Well, this part down here. I don't know if anybody has mentioned to you about this or not, but Officer Mullinax, he talked to me a long time when this boy got killed.

Mr. Griffin.

When did that occur?

Mr. Eberhardt.

It was in the summer 2 years ago.

Mr. Griffin.

1961 or 1962?

Mr. Eberhardt.

No; 1962.

Mr. Griffin.

Uh-huh.

Mr. Eberhardt.

An officer was shot to death in a hotel. There were no witnesses, except the man that shot him. The man that shot him was not indicted. There were no witnesses. I went up to Jack's one night, and he talked to me one night about it, and he went to the boy's funeral. I don't know if that gives you any idea of how Ruby's mind is, but it is unusual in our profession to have a man show up at a funeral. You would just have to draw your own conclusions as to why he would.

Mr. Griffin.

Now, Mullinax was on the vice squad?

Mr. Eberhardt.

Yes.

Mr. Griffin.

And Jack tried to be very friendly with all of the members of the vice squad?

Mr. Eberhardt.

He was friendly with everybody. If he knew you, he would say hello to you. If he didn't know you, he was going to try to meet you.

Mr. Griffin.

The vice squad would probably be one of the first to close his place down if there was any problem?

Mr. Eberhardt.

Liquor board and the vice squad, that is right.

Mr. Griffin.

You feel that you know Jack well, don't you?

Mr. Eberhardt.

Yes and no. I know the man from seeing him up there, but I have never rode in any car with him, never had him at my home, but I know him from seeing him time after time after time.