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. In other words, as I understand you, you gathered that was
running through his mind, was why the ad, and the poster, appeared at
the same time as the visit of the President; is that correct?
Mr. SENATOR. I would probably say it is something of that nature, I
guess.
Mr. HUBERT. I want to distinguish that, if possible, from another
situation, and that is whether or not you gathered that he was disposed
to place the killing of the President together with the poster and the
ad.
Mr. SENATOR. Run that again.
Mr. HUBERT. From what you could gather from his attitude, from what
he said and how he acted, do you think it was running through his
mind that there was a connection between the Earl Warren poster,
the Weissman ad, and the killing of the President rather than the
President’s visit?
Mr. SENATOR. No; I would say the subject at that time, when he was
looking at the sign and taking pictures of it, and the newspaper ad,
that this is where he really wanted to know the whys or why these
things had to be out. He is trying to combine these two together, which
I did hear him say, “This is the work of the John Birch Society or the
Communist Party or maybe a combination of both.”
Mr. HUBERT. What is the work of those two; the death of the President?
Mr. SENATOR. Oh, no, no, no.
Mr. HUBERT. The publication of these signs?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. He did not indicate what his impressions were as to who was
behind the death of the President?
Mr. SENATOR. No; he didn’t indicate that.
Mr. HUBERT. Nor did he seem to associate the ads and the poster with
the President’s death?
Mr. SENATOR. I don’t know about that part.
Mr. HUBERT. But you do know that he was wondering why these two things,
the poster and ad, should come out at the same time?
Mr. SENATOR. Now, mind you, I don’t know if they come out at the same
time, because the billboard, I don’t know if that thing was there a day
or a week.
Mr. HUBERT. But he was associating the two of those together?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Or trying to find out if there was any connection between
those two?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes; he wanted to know why.
Mr. HUBERT. And it was the fact that the ad was published and the sign
was posted that he attributed to the Communists or the Birch Society.
Mr. SENATOR. Yes; and he couldn’t understand why the Dallas Morning
News would ever print such a thing like that, say that in their paper.
Mr. HUBERT. You see what I am trying to get at is whether he manifested
in any way that his thinking associated the assassination of the
President with the posting of the Warren poster and publication of
the ad, or rather whether he was simply associating the fact of the
publication of the ad and the posting of the poster with communism, and
so forth.
Mr. SENATOR. To my belief I think he was trying to associate the ad and
the poster with the Communist Party or the John Birch Society.
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