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. No; I can’t say that he did. I mean it seems to me like if
a man was really concerned about his business he wouldn’t have closed
Friday night like he did. It seems to me like something like that—you
know what I mean?
Mr. GRIFFIN. But, again, that is an impression you are drawing from
some sort of outside event?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I am asking you to look at just what Jack was talking
about and the things that he seemed to be concerned with and occupied
with after the death of the President.
Were they things, was his conversation mostly about the President, or
was it mostly about the things that he had to do in Dallas?
Mr. CRAFARD. I believe it was mostly about the President, as near as I
can recall.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How long did you talk with him at the Carousel about the
President?
Mr. CRAFARD. Oh, while he was there the first time we was talking about
it. I’m trying to recall there was something said there when he said
something about he was going to be closed, that we was going to be
closed that night. He seemed to think if we closed and the other clubs
stayed open it might help a little bit, help the club a little bit, or
something.
Mr. GRIFFIN. So that in Jack’s mind closing was an aid to his business?
Mr. CRAFARD. I believe so; yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Larry, when you decided to go, to leave Dallas, I take it
that you packed up all your belongings because you didn’t expect to
come back.
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. I think you told us you had two little cases?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you search around to see that you had done all that
needed to be done?
Mr. CRAFARD. I knew I had everything that I wanted to take with me. I
left a couple old shirts and a pair of old pants, I believe, that I
left there.
Mr. HUBERT. And you left the book?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. What about that letter that you had written to Gale?
Mr. CRAFARD. I don’t even recall a letter that I had wrote to her that
I had left there.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you know that there was a letter there with your aunt’s
address on it?
Mr. CRAFARD. I had received a letter, but I believe I had threw the
envelope into the waste basket or something like that.
Mr. HUBERT. How long before you left had you received that letter?
Mr. CRAFARD. I think it had been probably about a week, I’m not sure.
Mr. HUBERT. Did it stay in the wastebasket all that time?
Mr. CRAFARD. I think I had it lay on my desk, on the table there, for a
couple days, 3 or 4 days, or something like that.
Mr. HUBERT. And then threw it in the wastepaper basket?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; the wastebasket wouldn’t have gotten empty until I
emptied it, and I wouldn’t have emptied it until it was full.
Mr. HUBERT. Did anyone else know about your aunt, her address in
Harrison?
Mr. CRAFARD. I believe Jack and Andy both knew that I had received a
letter from my cousin.
Mr. HUBERT. Your aunt and cousin? Well, it is Gail?
Mr. CRAFARD. Gail, Miss Eaton.
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