Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. SENATOR. Oh, sure.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What times of the year did that tend to be when you did
not earn your draw?
Mr. SENATOR. I cannot base it on any particular time or periods, but
there were many times, especially when you get chopped down a bit on
your loans. I have never made what you call any big money with them. I
was always, I would imagine, hitting probably around my draw part, or
there may have been times when I fell even behind.
Mr. HUBERT. I want to get to the time when you first met Jack Ruby.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. Hubert, I have a couple of questions. I would like to
clear up on some much earlier stuff before you get to that.
Mr. HUBERT. All right.
Mr. GRIFFIN. First of all, where is Gloversville, N.Y.? What part of
New York State is that?
Mr. SENATOR. Are you familiar with Albany?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. SENATOR. You are familiar with Schenectady?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. SENATOR. How about Amsterdam?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Well, if I am not, if you tell us where it is.
Mr. SENATOR. I haven’t been there in so many years I may not have the
right direction now. All I know is I am trying to figure what the
locality is. It is 30 miles from Schenectady. In other words, it is off
the beaten path a bit from your main lines.
Mr. GRIFFIN. It is upstate New York?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes; I would probably say in the locale of the foothills
of the Adirondacks.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now I perhaps did not catch this, but there was a period
in 1947 when you went to work in New Hampshire?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Why did you go to New Hampshire?
Mr. SENATOR. I needed a job.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How did you happen to go there?
Mr. SENATOR. The man who was running the Red Rooster—what was the name
of it again?
Mr. HUBERT. The Hensroost.
Mr. SENATOR. Yes; the Hensroost; he was up there for the summer. So he
got me a job up there for the summer. That was another time when I was
very much in need of a job. The type of work that I did up there, they
had a little place where the help used to come in, you know, to eat or
drink or buy cigars, separation from the guest part. This is the part I
worked, made them hamburgers or whatever it may be of that nature.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I do not have anything else, Mr. Hubert, if you want to go
on.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, as I understand it, it was in May of 1954, almost 10
years ago, that you moved to Dallas?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. How soon after moving to Dallas did you meet Jack Ruby?
Mr. SENATOR. I would say it may have been—I would say approximately
about within a year or approximately about a year; I’m not sure.
Mr. HUBERT. You did not know him prior to moving to Dallas?
Mr. SENATOR. Oh, no; I had never heard of Jack Ruby before in my life.
Mr. HUBERT. You think it would be somewhere in 1955 that you first met
him?
Mr. SENATOR. I would even say in 1955 or early 1956. I mean give or
take a few.
Mr. HUBERT. Tell us the circumstances under which you met him.
Mr. SENATOR. How I met him?
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
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