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. Well, if there should have been discussion about
something, whatever it might be, with me he would make wrong and holler
at me and flare up at me.
Mr. HUBERT. What do you mean by “make wrong”?
Mr. SENATOR. I could never be right with the man, see what I mean? I
couldn’t be right. In other words, if I said black was black he would
say no it is white and that is it.
Mr. HUBERT. And he would do that in a gruff fashion do you think?
Mr. SENATOR. With me? Oh my, you have no idea how many times he has
hollered at me but he’d never lay a hand on me. And the funny thing is
that is how fast he got over it, and he’d forget about it.
Mr. HUBERT. You snapped your fingers again? You mean that he would——
Mr. SENATOR. In other words, when I snapped my fingers I meant he would
get over it that fast from me.
Mr. HUBERT. So, from your own experience there have been innumerable
occasions where he would react toward you in such a way that you would
describe it as anger, manifested——
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Wait a while.
Mr. SENATOR. You would think he was going to hit me but I knew he
wouldn’t.
Mr. HUBERT. This anger being manifested by a loud tone and certain
gestures which would indicate he was going to hit you, but didn’t, and
that you have seen many times, and you also tell us that——
Mr. SENATOR. I have seen it on myself at certain times. Many times with
others, but whatever the thing might be, I mean I don’t know. Like I
told you before, if somebody come up there and pinched a stripper or
something like that, which has happened, man, this would throw him off.
He didn’t like that.
Mr. HUBERT. But you say he would calm down right away?
Mr. SENATOR. He would calm down right away. And he would warn them
“Again, out” and he would put them out. There wouldn’t be any
hesitation. He protected his girls up there, this I’ll tell you, at all
times.
Mr. HUBERT. I want to explore another aspect of this that you have
mentioned, and that is that as quickly as he flared up he seemed to
flare down, if you want me to put it that way, calm down. Can you give
us examples of that?
Mr. SENATOR. I can give you examples of myself on that.
Mr. HUBERT. You mean that following one of these flareups that you have
described?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes, he would holler at me.
Mr. HUBERT. Then it would be all over.
Mr. SENATOR. He would holler at me and raise the roof at me and then he
would tone down.
Mr. HUBERT. How long would it take?
Mr. SENATOR. A matter of a minute or two.
Mr. HUBERT. In other words, he wouldn’t brood over it. Having gotten
mad at you he wouldn’t be a brooder. He would change to another subject
and be quite his normal self again?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes. See I couldn’t make this man wrong. I can’t make
him wrong, you know. I’m the wrong one. I refer to myself, mind you.
Whatever it might be I can’t be right.
Mr. HUBERT. That was the way he treated you?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
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