(Testimony of Huey Reeves)
Mr. Hubert.
November 22, that's the date the President was shot, until the end of your shift at 7 o'clock the next morning?
Mr. Reeves.
November 23d? Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
I'm talking about the man whose picture you just looked at.
Mr. Reeves.
I don't believe I did--I don't believe I seen him around there during that time.
Mr. Hubert.
Did you see him and Ruby in the early hours of the 23d, Saturday, say about 3 or 5 o'clock in the morning?
Mr. Reeves.
No, sir ;I don't believe I did--no, sir. I don't think I seen him.
Mr. Hubert.
Did you see Ruby that morning, I'm talking about the shift that runs from 7 o'clock on Friday to 7 o'clock Saturday morning?
Mr. Reeves.
Let's see what date was that?
Mr. Hubert.
It would have been the 22d and the 23d, that was the night of and the morning after the President was shot.
Mr. Reeves.
No, sir. Let's see, I may have seen Jack--I don't remember seeing this boy. I may have seen Jack.
Mr. Hubert.
Do you remember Jack parking his car there early Saturday morning the 23d?
Mr. Reeves.
Saturday morning the 23d?
Mr. Hubert.
Before you got off, maybe 2 or 3 hours before you got off?
Mr. Reeves.
No, sir; I don't think so. He never did come in that early--before I got off--I don't think so. Most of the time he came in would be, I think, about 8 o'clock at night and maybe when he closed up was 1 or 1:30 and he would maybe go off and eat and he might run back to see if he locked his door. Sometimes he would call me and have me to hold the phone while I ran in there to see if his door was locked, and I would come back and tell him his door was locked.
Mr. Hubert.
You say it just looked like Larry had taken off?
Mr. Reeves.
Well, I seen him going in and out of the place there all of the time I just missed him. I was not trying to keep up with him--I just missed him. I was not trying to keep up with him, but I just missed him.
Mr. Hubert.
Do you remember when you missed him?
Mr. Reeves.
No, sir.
Mr. Hubert.
Did anybody tell you he had gone?
Mr. Reeves.
No, sir; didn't nobody tell me.
Mr. Hubert.
Do you remember the last time you saw him?
Mr. Reeves.
No, sir; I couldn't say for sure the last time I seen him. I think he stayed there a week or 2--I don't remember--it might be 3 weeks--I don't remember. Sometimes he would come in, he was a pretty friendly boy, and he would come there and wave at me and I am pretty friendly too and I would see him when he was working up there for Jack Ruby and maybe I would wave to him when he came out and sometimes he would come over there and talk to me at the ticket window while I was cashing tickets and chat with him a few times, but I don't remember him ever telling me his name or anything, but he was a peculiar acting kind of a boy.
Mr. Hubert.
In what way?
Mr. Reeves.
The way he would sort of bat his eyes like that when he would talk and get around real fast when he would take off up the street. He would walk real fast, you know, and all at once he would just take off and go through the Adolphus Hotel lobby, is what I mean. He claimed he had a girl friend over there I don't know who it was.
Mr. Hubert.
Where?
Mr. Reeves.
Over there at the Eatwell Cafe some girl, was meeting him over there.
Mr. Hubert.
He told you that?
Mr. Reeves.
Yes, he said, "I've got to go, I've got to meet a girl over at the Eatwell."
Mr. Hubert.
Did you ever see him with a girl?
Mr. Reeves.
No, sir; I never seen him with a girl.
Mr. Hubert.
Where is the Eatwell place?
Mr. Reeves.
It's on Main Street, fight in front of Nichols Brothers. You go through the lobby of the hotel--I call it a lobby, I always say lobby, but it is
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