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. HUBERT. And you think that is not so?
Mr. SENATOR. No; I say that he doesn’t go according to size. I mean I
know that he doesn’t fear anybody who is taller than he is.
Mr. HUBERT. Now how do you know that? How do you form that opinion
right now?
Mr. SENATOR. How do I form that opinion?
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
Mr. SENATOR. Because I think Jack is of that temperament where size
don’t mean anything to him.
Mr. HUBERT. You just base that upon your general knowledge of the man?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes; I don’t think he is of the nature who would back off.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you ever see him act in what might be considered brutal
in the sense that he went further than he had to go with reference to
anything?
Mr. SENATOR. No; I have never witnessed any.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you know or have you ever heard of an occasion where he
had a fight with a man who bit part of his finger off?
Mr. SENATOR. I haven’t seen it. I mean I see the finger. I have heard
that, yes. How it happened I don’t know. There was some sort of a fight
and the guy bit it. Now what happened I don’t know but I’ve heard that.
Mr. HUBERT. Did Jack ever talk to you about it?
Mr. SENATOR. No; as a matter of fact I have noticed his finger, you
know, I have seen his finger but I never asked him why, because it
happens to be we both got the same type finger. Mine is a paper cut.
His cut much more off than mine.
Mr. HUBERT. He never told you how he lost that part of the finger?
Mr. SENATOR. He told me that he lost it, somebody bit his finger in
a fight. Now I don’t know if it was the Silver Spur or wherever it
happened. I just don’t remember where or how it happened.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you ever hear about him beating up a taxicab man who
came in to fetch a fare, or to collect a fare?
Mr. SENATOR. I have never seen it.
Mr. HUBERT. You have heard about it?
Mr. SENATOR. I have heard about it. I never heard no names or anything
of that. I heard about it but I have never seen it.
Mr. HUBERT. Now you have expressed to us your opinion that Jack is a
man who was not fearful of anyone irrespective of size. Would you give
us your opinion as to whether or not he was the type of man, from all
you know of him, who would be brutal in a fight? By brutal I mean when
he got his man down he would kick him and be sure he was down, kick him
in the groin, in the head or something of that sort?
Mr. SENATOR. I don’t know. I couldn’t answer that. I have never
witnessed anything of this nature.
Mr. HUBERT. Have you an opinion?
Mr. SENATOR. You would ask me guess then and if I guessed I wouldn’t
know what I was guessing at.
Mr. HUBERT. I would ask you to guess on the same basis that you
expressed an opinion that he was afraid of nobody.
Mr. SENATOR. He certainly wasn’t afraid of size. In other words, if the
man happened to be 6 inches taller than him he wouldn’t back off.
Mr. HUBERT. And that was formed I think you told us from your general
knowledge.
Mr. SENATOR. That is right. He wouldn’t back off.
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