Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. GRAEF. Well, my impression of his mistakes were somehow that he
just couldn't manage to avoid them. It wasn't that he lacked industry
or didn't try. Whenever he was asked to do a job over, he would do it
willingly for me, with no--he would be more perturbed at himself that
he had made an error, so I think he just couldn't--he somehow couldn't
manage to handle work that was that exact. It wasn't that he wasn't
trying or didn't work hard to do the job, but somehow he just couldn't
make it, and now, like I said, it wasn't every job that this happened,
but it was too frequent to allow. There were too many times that these
things had to be made over and they added to the final reason for
dismissing him.
Mr. JENNER. You carry on--I want this in your own words without
prompting on my part.
Mr. GRAEF. Sure. Now, this was approximately the fourth month that he
began to be given the responsibility for making these jobs, and it
began to become evident then that he was making these mistakes. We
kept, of course, trying to train him--now, by this time he was working
under other people, and many times he was going through the processes
of doing these jobs by himself and carrying the whole job through as I
have outlined previously.
Mr. JENNER. This work didn't, I take it, require his creating any
copies?
Mr. GRAEF. I beg your pardon?
Mr. JENNER. Did you prepare copy--I'm talking about you personally?
Mr. GRAEF. No; very, very seldom.
Mr. JENNER. Do you have a department in which advertising copy is
prepared?
Mr. GRAEF. If you mean by that--like pasting up advertisements?
Mr. JENNER. No; I mean preparing them.
Mr. GRAEF. Actually working on layouts and ideas to be used--creative
ideas and things like that?
Mr. JENNER. Yes; the body of copy.
Mr. GRAEF. No; we do for our own firm create small ads and so forth.
Mr. JENNER. What I am getting at, he never reached the point which he
had to do any creating of copy in the sense that I am talking about,
which would then lead you to have some experience with him as to his
use of grammar?
Mr. GRAEF. No.
Mr. JENNER. Or his skills along those lines?
Mr. GRAEF. No; now, in the course of his carrying these jobs through
and back in the darkroom, I began to hear vague rumors of friction
between him and the other employees. The nature of our business is such
that we are under pressure a good deal of the time to meet deadlines.
Mr. JENNER. Time pressures?
Mr. GRAEF. Yes; in the interest of teamwork and getting a job out, we
try to tend to overlook things like that.
Mr. JENNER. Things like what?
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