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. No; I’ll tell you why. I don’t think I did. At that time
Jack was changing over and he had some pretty rough times. He had
changed over from this Sovereign Club. Now how rough he had it there
I don’t know because I wasn’t intimate with him at that time, that
intimate. And he went into this burlesque business.
Mr. HUBERT. That is the Carousel you mean?
Mr. SENATOR. The Carousel and he was bucking somebody who had never
been bucked before. That is the Weinstein brothers who owned the
Theatre Lounge and the Colony Club and who have had the monopoly of
that type nature of business for many, many years. Now, for him to buck
them he has really got something to buck.
Mr. HUBERT. So he was having difficulties and you were too?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes; originally I was sleeping at the club and so was he.
Mr. HUBERT. You mean he didn’t have an apartment at all?
Mr. SENATOR. He didn’t have an apartment at that time.
Mr. HUBERT. How long did that situation go on?
Mr. SENATOR. It didn’t last too long, because as business started to
pick up some he was sleeping, he had his own room in the club and he
had a fold-out bed that I could sleep on and I slept there for awhile.
Mr. HUBERT. So that originally when Jack took you in, as it were, to
assist you, he took you in at the club, and not into any apartment
which he then had?
Mr. SENATOR. He didn’t have an apartment.
Mr. HUBERT. That is what I say.
Mr. SENATOR. He didn’t have an apartment at that time. But he was
always good in feeding somebody if they were down and out.
Mr. HUBERT. You mean he gave you cash?
Mr. SENATOR. Either that or he gave me a little cash for spending money
or he would just take me.
Mr. HUBERT. Just do what?
Mr. SENATOR. Take me to eat, you know, when he went to eat. He’d pay
for my laundry or have my suit pressed, things of that nature.
Mr. HUBERT. But then he did get an apartment?
Mr. SENATOR. He got an apartment but I don’t remember just how long
after that.
Mr. HUBERT. In any case when he got an apartment you moved into that
apartment with him?
Mr. SENATOR. See I am a little blank on one point there. I just don’t
remember how the outcome was when he moved out of there into the
apartment. I can’t remember just how long I stayed up at the club with
him. It wasn’t too long, though. I don’t remember how long. But anyhow
he got this apartment on South Ewing.
Mr. HUBERT. On South Ewing?
Mr. SENATOR. No; Marsalis.
Mr. HUBERT. And then you moved in with him right away?
Mr. SENATOR. Then I went in with him. Now I don’t remember if I went
in with him—I don’t remember how I went in with him. I can’t place it
together but I know I was there.
Mr. HUBERT. You didn’t have to pay any rent?
Mr. SENATOR. No; but I helped him in the club.
Mr. HUBERT. Now when you helped him in the club, what did you do? What
kind of work did you do at the club?
Mr. SENATOR. Well, I sort of ran the lights for him for awhile and I’d
take cash for him.
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