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. I don’t believe I did because I—I don’t believe I did. I
didn’t recall it.
Mr. HUBERT. Are you stating to us that you would not have recalled a
statement made to you about Oswald being in the club, which statement
had, by any hypothesis, already been made to you, when they asked you
if you knew of any connection between them?
Mr. CRAFARD. The thing is that if I remembered it, I would have said
so, told, said something to them. If I didn’t say anything to them, I
didn’t remember the fact.
Mr. HUBERT. They asked you if you knew of any connection between them,
didn’t they?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; I believe they did.
Mr. HUBERT. And you then knew that someone had told you he had been in
the club?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; I believe they did.
Mr. HUBERT. Why didn’t you tell them that you knew that?
Mr. CRAFARD. I evidently didn’t remember it.
Mr. HUBERT. But you have already stated that this thing made a great
impression upon you.
Mr. CRAFARD. I know that, sir.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Larry——
Mr. HUBERT. Let me follow this through a bit. Didn’t they, in fact, ask
you if you had heard the rumor that Oswald had been in the club?
Mr. CRAFARD. I don’t know exactly how he asked me about it, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Didn’t he ask you, in fact, if you had ever seen him in the
club?
Mr. CRAFARD. I believe he asked me that question; yes. I believe he
might have. My answer would have been——
Mr. HUBERT. Is your statement to us if he asked you that question it
would not have recalled to your memory that someone had told you that
he had been in the club?
Mr. CRAFARD. My statement is that it did not at that time.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Were you a little bit frightened when the FBI talked with
you?
Mr. CRAFARD. No; I don’t believe so.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Were you at all concerned that your flight from Dallas
might make you a suspect of some sort?
Mr. CRAFARD. I don’t believe—I don’t remember having any such belief;
no.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What was your feeling towards the FBI when they talked to
you?
Mr. CRAFARD. That they were talking to me because of the fact that I
had worked for Ruby, and they wanted to know what I knew about Ruby’s
movements in hopes that there might be something there that would help
them in their investigation.
Mr. GRIFFIN. At the time when you talked to the FBI you formed a
tentative opinion about the connection between Ruby and Oswald or the
motivation for Jack’s doing what he did?
Mr. CRAFARD. I figured, formed the opinion, myself, as far as I could
figure Jack must have been out of his mind to shoot Oswald.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was this, would you say this was a strong opinion that you
had?
Mr. CRAFARD. No. I will say that it is the sort of opinion I have now,
it has been right along ever since I found out that Ruby had shot
Oswald.
Mr. GRIFFIN. But in spite of having that opinion that there was
somewhere along the line you began to think if there could be any
connection between Ruby and Oswald?
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