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From the Draft Report by Surell Brady
for the House Select Committee on Assassinations:
Investigators from the House Select Committee on Assassinations interviewd John David Hurt on April 11, 1978 at his home at 201 Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, North Carolina. Hurt is 68 years old and married to Billie G. Hurt....
When Hurt was shown the telephone call slip made out by Alveeta Treon, he acknowledged that the number 834-7430 was his number in Raleigh at the time of the assassination and is still listed to him. However, he could not identify the other number listed on ths slip, 833-1253.
Committee staff was informed by the Southern Bell Telephone Company in North Carolina that in 1963 the number 833-1253 was listed to John W. Hurt on Forest Road in Raleigh, North Carolina. According to Southern Bell records, both phone numbers were unpublished in 1963.
Editor's note: Footnotes in the Draft Report show that the obviously incorrect (see below) information from Southern Bell came from a "telephone interview of Carolyn Rabon, 12/13/78."
Outside Contact Report
Interviews with Carolyn Rabon, Southern Bell Telephone Co.
by Surell Brady
December 13, 1978
11:55 a.m.
I called Ms. Rabon to determine if the Southern Bell Co. maintained records of telephone listings in 1963, to determine to whom the numbers listed on Alveeta Treon's telephone call slip belonged. Ms. Rabon stated that none of their records of listings are maintained by number, but that they are kept by last name of the patron only.
Ms. Rabon said both of the Raleigh telephone numbers, 834-7430 and 833-1253, were unpublished in 1963.
12:50 p.m.
Ms. Rabon called me back to say she had had some luck getting information on the persons to whom the telephone numbers I had given her. Ms. Rabon asked me if I thought shw would have any legal problems by giving me the information. I told her we would have to use the information if it pertained to our investigation. She then said she was not supposed to give out unlisted numbers, but that here she was only giving me the names, so she did not think there would be a problem.
She said 834-7430 was listed to John David Hurt at 201 Hillsborough Street in Raleigh in 1963; 833-1253 was listed to John W. Hurt on Forest Road in Raleigh in 1963.
Editor's note: Why did Rabon tell the HSCA (twice) that the telephone numbers found on Mrs. Treon's call slip were "unlisted" in 1963? It was not a matter that Surell Brady misunderstood, as Rabon mentioned (and agonized over) the fact three times in two telephone calls. As clearly shown from the listings, reproduced below exactly from the Southern Bell telephone books, both numbers were published at the time of the time of the assassination, and would have been available for anyone contacting the Information Operator.
From the November, 1961 Raleigh, N.C. telephone directory:
Hurt John D 15 New Bern Av ................ TE4-7430
Hurt John W 315 N Boundry ................. TE3-1253
From the December, 1962 Raleigh, N.C. telephone directory:
Hurt John D 415 New Bern Av ............... TE4-7430
Hurt John W Old Wake Forest Rd ............ 833-1253
From the December, 1963 Raleigh, N.C. telephone directory:
Hurt John D 201 Hillsbro .................. 834-7430
Hurt John W Old Wake Forest Rd ............ 833-1253
From the December, 1964 Raleigh, N.C. telephone directory:
Hurt John D 201 Hillsbro .................. 834-7430
Hurt John W Old Wake Forest Rd ............ 833-1253
Telephone slip from the Dallas jail:
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