Mrs. Pitts.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Hubert.

Had you been interviewed prior to that by his attorney?

Mrs. Pitts.

Say had I been what?

Mr. Hubert.

Interviewed prior to your testimony in the trial by his attorney?

Mrs. Pitts.

Yes, sir; by his--Mr. Belli.

Mr. Hubert.

Mr. Belli? He talked to you?

Mrs. Pitts.

He talked to me. He come out there and got me when I was sitting out there waiting. They had--Mr. Burleson was the one that talks to me over the phone and told me that I had to come down there.

Mr. Hubert.

Did he ask you whether or not his voice was strange?

Mrs. Pitts.

They just told me to tell how he talked to me, so, that is what I did. That is what he said that they wanted to know. So, that is what I did.

Mr. Hubert.

Do you remember that you were interviewed by Mr. Jack French, special agent of the FBI, around 2 or 3 days after this shooting occurred?

Mrs. Pitts.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Hubert.

Do you recall whether you told Mr. French at that time that you thought that Mr. Ruby's voice sounded odd the way you testified today?

Mrs. Pitts.

Yes, sir; I told him that, but he told me what he was wanting to know if I had seen any books or letters or papers around there, and that I didn't ever look, and----

Mr. Hubert.

But you say you told Mr. French that you thought that Mr. Ruby's voice was odd like you testified to today?

Mrs. Pitts.

Yes, sir; I told him that.

Mr. Hubert.

Did you tell him that, or was the first time that you testified like that at the time of the Ruby trial?

Mrs. Pitts.

Did I do what now?

Mr. Hubert.

I say, are you sure that you told Mr. French about Mr. Ruby's strange sounding voice or what----

Mrs. Pitts.

I told----

Mr. Hubert.

Or was the first time you testified about that voice at the time of the trial?

Mrs. Pitts.

I told him some of it. He told me he wasn't interested in that. He said what he wanted to know if I'd seen a lot of people around there. didn't see, because I wasn't there every day.

Mr. Hubert.

Was it suggested to you by anyone that you should say that his voice was strange there?

Mrs. Pitts.

Yes, sir; I told him that.

Mr. Hubert.

No; did anybody suggest to you, at anytime that you should testify that Mr. Ruby's voice seemed odd that day?

Mrs. Pitts.

No, sir; nobody didn't tell me that, just told me to tell how he talks to me, so, that is what I did.

Mr. Hubert.

And you had also told that to Mr. French?

Mrs. Pitts.

Yes; I told him he sounded funny to me and strange, and scare me, and there is another reason I didn't just drop my work at home and go ahead home, because I could have went on to the store right there close and--but I wouldn't do it, because he talked so funny to me.

Mr. Hubert.

You mean you decided at that time that you weren't going over there that day?

Mrs. Pitts.

I guess when I talked to him--after I hung up I called my daughter and told her about it, said, "He sure sounded funny to me." And, so, she said, "Are you going, mama?" And I said, "No." And, directly my little bitty granddaughter, the oldest granddaughter there, and they says, "Is this name Jack Ruby, Rubinstein, or something?" And I said, "No; Jack Ruby." Says, "Well, that news is where there he done killed a man." But I said, "Killed who?" So, she said--"Oswald." Well, it didn't--this Oswald, I don't know nothing about him, so, I said, "That isn't him, because this is Rubinstein. It's Ruby is what he told me." All I ever did know was Jack Ruby, so, I called my daughter again, and I says to her, I says, "They'll show that on TV, and they call the dog Sheba"--there, that's him, and I said, "You stay there and look and call me back."
I still kept working, because I didn't think it was him, so, she--directly