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. CRAFARD. Well, the way I left, after I found out that Ruby shot
Oswald, the way I left, I thought just suddenly like that, didn’t leave
any word to anybody where I was going or anything.
Mr. HUBERT. How would that connect you with the killing of Oswald?
Mr. CRAFARD. I had been working for Ruby. He had shot Oswald. It could
be kind of insinuating circumstances why I left and everything like
that.
Mr. HUBERT. But you had left before Oswald was shot?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; I had left before Oswald was shot.
Mr. HUBERT. So that really your concern was not that they would connect
you with the killing of Oswald?
Mr. CRAFARD. No.
Mr. HUBERT. But that——
Mr. CRAFARD. They might think that I had done something wrong, myself.
Mr. HUBERT. With reference to what?
Mr. CRAFARD. To anything. I mean breaking the law in any way.
Mr. HUBERT. With reference to the shooting of the President, too?
Mr. CRAFARD. How is that?
Mr. HUBERT. With reference to shooting of the President?
Mr. CRAFARD. Well, it could be that they might have thought I was
involved in that in some way or something like that, and I just figured
if they thought, you know, the way I had left if they had any idea at
all that would further their idea, I mean if they had any idea that any
of Ruby’s employees were involved in it, that would further the idea
that I had been involved in this, in it.
Mr. HUBERT. You actually thought about that?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; I felt——
Mr. HUBERT. That was the thing that gave you concern and that is what
you talked to your sister about?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; it kind of bothered me a little bit.
Mr. HUBERT. Couldn’t you have ended the bother by going to the nearest
police force?
Mr. CRAFARD. I probably could have. I never even thought about going in
like that, just walking in and talking to them, asking them about it or
anything.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you fear when you left Dallas that things might be
happening which would get you in trouble?
Mr. CRAFARD. No; it never entered my mind. I figured that that would be
the end of things when they had caught Oswald, I kind of figured that
would be the end of it and he would come to trial.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you fear that things might be happening which would
get Jack or other people you knew in trouble?
Mr. CRAFARD. No; I didn’t.
Mr. HUBERT. Let’s put it point blank to you, Larry. Did you think that
possibly Ruby or someone among his friends might have had something to
do with this and the best thing for you to do as an innocent person was
to get out of there?
Mr. CRAFARD. No, sir; I didn’t, because if I had had the slightest idea
that him or anybody he knew had anything to do with it, the first thing
I would have done would have been to walk right straight down to the
police station.
Mr. HUBERT. Then when you found out that he had killed Oswald,
didn’t it occur to you that he might be killing Oswald to remove the
President’s murderer?
Mr. CRAFARD. I don’t believe it really did occur to me at that time; no.
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