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. GRIFFIN. Was he awake?
Mr. SENATOR. Oh sure.
Mr. GRIFFIN. So you talked with him?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. That is where I had left off.
Mr. GRIFFIN. That is right. That is why I stopped.
Mr. HUBERT. I think you said as a matter of fact here that the process
of your waking up and moving around the house and so forth wakened
him. How long did you stay around the house?
Mr. SENATOR. Saturday morning you are referring to?
Mr. HUBERT. Yes; after awakening.
Mr. SENATOR. Saturday morning I must have left, as a guess, mind you,
somewhere around, maybe somewheres between 11:30 and 12:30. Of course,
I am only guessing. I could be a half hour off or I might be an hour
off.
Mr. HUBERT. That is to say that you stayed around the house anywhere
from 1 hour to 2 hours after you awakened?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes; I would probably say that.
Mr. HUBERT. And during most of that time Jack was awake and up, too?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes. He awoke after.
Mr. HUBERT. Can you recall the substance of the conversations between
you during that period of either 1 hour or 2 hours or something in
between?
Mr. SENATOR. Well, we watched TV a bit, and he had mentioned—of course,
he wasn’t feeling good when he woke up—he had mentioned the fact, he
sort of rehashed the President and the kids all the time, how sorry he
felt for them and how a great man like President Kennedy could have
been shot. He thought this was a terrible thing to happen. Many a time
he went through this how sorry he felt for the kids and Mrs. Kennedy, a
poor tragic thing like this to happen to them.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he tell you that he had decided to close the clubs?
Mr. SENATOR. No. I wasn’t with him. That was Friday night.
Mr. HUBERT. I understand that, but I mean by Saturday morning, we are
speaking of the conversations of Saturday morning.
Mr. SENATOR. No; this I already knew.
Mr. HUBERT. You already knew?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. When did you find that out?
Mr. SENATOR. Friday night.
Mr. HUBERT. Who told you?
Mr. SENATOR. The ad in the paper.
Mr. HUBERT. That is how you first saw it?
Mr. SENATOR. That is how I knew. That was an ad at the same time——
Mr. HUBERT. Did you discuss with him at any time, either on Friday
night or Saturday morning, the fact that he had closed the clubs, and
the reason therefor?
Mr. SENATOR. He told me why he closed the club. He put this in heavy
black, in heavy black block, that the Carousel will be closed Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday, because he thought it was a terrible thing for
anybody to be dancing and entertaining or drinking of that nature there
at a time such as this.
Mr. HUBERT. You say that he put an ad In the paper Friday night that
the club would be closed for 3 days?
Mr. SENATOR. I don’t know what time because I assume he put it in
sometime Friday afternoon.
Mr. HUBERT. But the first time you saw the notice about the closing of
the clubs, there was an announcement that the club would be closed for
3 days?
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