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
Did Jack Ruby, George, to your knowledge show any interest in any
political candidates for local office in Texas?
Mr. SENATOR. I don’t know on that. I will tell you, as far as I know of
him, he has never spoken of or never messed around with anything like
that, political-wise or anything of that nature.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you ever see him with any campaign literature for
anybody?
Mr. SENATOR. No; I haven’t.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you ever see him with any literature of any political
sort that would be other than newspaper literature?
Mr. SENATOR. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You know in Texas and elsewhere there are all sorts of
organizations that are putting out literature, the John Birch Society
and Civil Liberties Union.
Mr. SENATOR. He never messed around with that. The only first showing I
ever seen of any nature was that night he woke me up.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You mentioned that Jack read newspapers, and you thought
every day. Did you have a newspaper delivered to your apartment?
Mr. SENATOR. No; he bought it on the way home.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he read newspapers from outside of Dallas?
Mr. SENATOR. No; he bought the morning paper and the evening paper.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he buy the Fort Worth papers?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes; and Fort Worth, come to think of it.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Any particular reason why he should buy a Fort Worth paper
rather than a Dallas paper?
Mr. SENATOR. No; because he bought them both. No particular reason, but
he would buy them both for news or see what is going on in Fort Worth,
I assume.
Mr. GRIFFIN. He would buy a Fort Worth paper at a Dallas newsstand or
would he only buy the Fort Worth newspaper when he went to Fort Worth?
Mr. SENATOR. No; he would buy a Fort Worth paper, I will tell you where
he bought it, he bought it at the Adolphus Hotel. He always picked
his paper up at the stand in front of the Adolphus. He would buy the
morning news. As a matter of fact, he would buy any paper that was
laying around there that the man had in front of the stand there.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he read the Wall Street Journal?
Mr. SENATOR. No; I don’t even think he could understand it.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How about magazines? Did he subscribe to any magazines?
Mr. SENATOR. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Time magazine, Newsweek?
Mr. SENATOR. I never seen any magazines come in.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you have any magazines around the house?
Mr. SENATOR. No; the only magazines I ever bought was Reader’s Digest.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you people have a television set at your apartment?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And did you have a radio?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was Jack accustomed to being at home and watching the TV
or listening to the radio?
Mr. SENATOR. On the TV part; yes, he would put that on. He would have
that on, and, of course, there is two things I know interested him on
TV.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What were those?
Mr. SENATOR. Those were Westerns and the stories, you know, whatever
stories there might be.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You mean the movies?
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