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    "ocrText": "December 9, 1963\nMr. J. E. Curry\nChief of Police\nRe: Interview with Mr. Warren Ferguson\n5406 Windswept\nHouston, Texas\nHome Phone: MO5-6461\nBusiness Phone SU1-1141\nSir:\nOn December 5, 1963, Lieutmant F. I. Cornwall and Lioutenant Jagk\nRevill interviewed Warren Ferguson in Houston, Texas, at the Houston\nPolice Department.\nMr. Perguson states that on Sunday, November 24, 1963, that he was\nworking for ABC Television as a soundman for Mr. James R. Davidmon, who\nis a cameraman for ABC. His assignment was to cover the transfer of\nOswald from the City Jail to the County Jail. At about 8:30 a.M. Mr.\nFerguson, along with the rest of the arew, vent to the basement of the\nPolice and Courts Building and into the Jail Office. They stayed inside\nthe Jail Office until approximately 10:00 a.m. At that time an officer\ngame into the room and stated that all persons except police officers\nwould have to clear the area. Mr. Ferguson and his sameraman then moved\ninto the hallway directly in front of the Jail Office so that they might\nget pictures of Lee Harvey Oavald through the Jail Office window. This\nlocation is in front of where you pay your fines inside of the double\ndoors. They stayed at this location until Oawald was brought down on the\nelevator for the transfor.\nWhen Oswald was brought down on the elevators and walked through the Jail\nOffice into the basement, they stayed at this asmo location taking pictures,\nand as Oswald entered the basement from the Jail office, their view was\nblocked by Oswald's escort and the double doors, and they were unable to\nget any pietures of the shooting.\nMr. Ferguson further stated that from the time when he first arrived at\nthe Police and Courts Building, which was Friday afternoon, November 22,\n1963, and until the time of the shooting, November 24, 1963, at no time\ndid he ever see Jack Ruby\nThe film that was shot during the incident of November 24, 1963, was\nsent to Mr. Jack Bush, Nows Direstor, American Bepadcasting Company,\n7 West 66th Street, Now York 23, New York.\nMr. Ferguson further stated that he had bem intervieved by an agent\nof the Federal Bureau of Investigation.\nIt A.Bonnall\nF. I. Cornuall\nLioutenant Special Service Bureau\nfact bance\nJask Revill\nLieutenant, Special Service Bureau\n33\nFIC snu"
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