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. But it was different from anything you had ever seen on
Jack Ruby before?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. And it was noticeably so?
Mr. SENATOR. Oh yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you notice it?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes; I could notice it.
Mr. HUBERT. Did it disturb you any?
Mr. SENATOR. I wouldn’t say exactly I was disturbed, but I could notice
it.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he seem to be concerned about the President’s death or
the ad or what?
Mr. SENATOR. To me, I would probably say it must have been a
combination of the entire thing. I know he was deeply hurt about the
President, terribly.
Mr. HUBERT. You say you know that. How do you know that?
Mr. SENATOR. What? By his feelings; by the way he talked about the
family and the children; by tears in his eyes, which I have seen, and I
am not the only one who has seen it.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you think that he was more disturbed than the average
person that you know was disturbed about the President’s death?
Mr. SENATOR. All I know, while I can’t say about the average because
all I know, he was really deeply disturbed, but I can’t describe an
average because there might be another individual of his nature, too,
who knows. Who knows the affections of each and every individual?
Mr. HUBERT. In any case his reaction was such——
Mr. SENATOR. It was pretty well—you know, disturbed as I was and as
disturbed as I have seen many friends of mine, it was worse with him
than it was with the others who I have seen.
Mr. HUBERT. That is exactly what I was getting at. So he got hold
of this newspaper ad and read it again—is that it—that is, in the
coffeeshop?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes; he looked it over again.
Mr. HUBERT. What comment did he make, while reading it or after?
Mr. SENATOR. While reading it?
Mr. HUBERT. I don’t mean his words, you understand, his exact words,
but the meaning, the thoughts expressed.
Mr. SENATOR. Yes; the thoughts. He can’t understand it. It is so
penetrated in his mind he can’t understand why somebody would want to
do something like this.
Mr. HUBERT. The ad had nothing to do with killing the President?
Mr. SENATOR. No; but he couldn’t understand why an ad like this should
break out, about this ad. Another thing he couldn’t understand why in
the world would they want to impeach Justice Earl Warren. Incidentally,
that sign come out of Massachusetts, that billboard.
Mr. HUBERT. Was it your impression that Ruby was putting the three
instances together as being connected in some way; to wit: the death of
the President, the impeach Earl Warren sign, and the Weissman ad? Was
he seeming to do that?
Mr. SENATOR. He was seeming to do at that time—he was seeming to do
with the impeachment of Earl Warren, and the Weissman sign; he couldn’t
understand why these things were of a nature—I don’t know how long this
billboard has been out. I don’t know if it has been a day, two, or what
it was, and then the ad break out the same day that President Kennedy
was coming in. He wanted to know the whys.
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