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. You see the point now, don’t you?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; I understand what you are trying to say. But later we
discussed the fact that Oswald and Ruby might have been connected, as I
believe everybody else has.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you think there is anything, can you think of anything
as a result of what you saw down there in Dallas that would indicate
that Jack shot Oswald out of some kind of fear?
Mr. CRAFARD. No; I can’t really think of anything.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Out of some motive of self-preservation other than, or not
necessarily connected with the shooting of the President, but that he
would have feared Oswald in any kind of a way?
Mr. CRAFARD. No; I can’t think of anything that would prove that, that
would give me any reason to believe that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you have some idea on the basis of your experience with
Jack and so forth as to why he shot Oswald?
Mr. CRAFARD. No; I haven’t, other than the fact that I believed ever
since it happened that Jack was out of his mind. I believe right today
that the man should be in a mental institution.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Is that simply because you can’t conceive of anybody doing
what he did, or from some other facts?
Mr. CRAFARD. I can’t conceive of a man that is in his right mind
walking up to a man, just walking up to a man, putting a gun in his
belly and pulling the trigger.
Mr. GRIFFIN. In a police station?
Mr. CRAFARD. That is right, I can’t conceive of it, of any man that is
in his right mind doing so.
Mr. GRIFFIN. But, other than that, is there any indication that you had
that Jack wasn’t in his right mind?
Mr. CRAFARD. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, you saw him for a period of about maybe 18 hours
after the President was shot. In that period that you saw him after the
President was shot, is there anything that indicated to you that he
wasn’t in his right mind in the way that, you know, his behavior was
markedly different?
Mr. CRAFARD. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. From the way Jack Ruby usually acted?
Mr. CRAFARD. One thing he was kind of, when he would speak it was kind
of a choppy way of speaking. He would say two or three words, wait and
then say two or three more, which wasn’t usual for Jack. He might bust
off in the middle of a sentence and then pause for a couple of seconds
before he completed the sentence.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Is this what you were referring to when you talked about
Jack being nervous?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; very much that way.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was it the kind of nervousness that a man might have if he
were afraid himself?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir; that is possible, a man that was afraid for
himself would be nervous like this; yes.
Mr. HUBERT. You observed those conditions prior to the time you left?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. This nervous condition?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; on the night when we went out and took those pictures
he was pretty well that way, he would talk in a burst and he would stop
and then talk in a burst again.
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