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. Do they give away prizes every night?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; weekends mostly.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How about during the week?
Mr. CRAFARD. Not too often. Sometimes they did. It depends on the size
of the crowd.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Where did Jack get his prizes?
Mr. CRAFARD. I don’t know.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he give away twist boards?
Mr. CRAFARD. He gave away twist boards, Rusty Warren records, two
bottles of champagne, Wilkinson sword-edged blades, and stuffed animals.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he give away all of those items every night they had a
raffle or different nights?
Mr. CRAFARD. He would give whoever won their choice. They would have,
give away, three prizes each night, and everyone would have their
choices out of the prizes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I am going to hand you what I have marked as “C. L.
Crafard, April 1964, 5207,” and I have signed my name to it. That is a
photograph. Can you tell me where that picture was taken?
Mr. CRAFARD. It was taken in Mr. Ruby’s office.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Is the arrangement of chair and desk and what appears to
be a couch in the foreground the arrangement that existed at the time
that you worked there?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. This couch here is part of a sectional that was
turned crosswise of the office, the other portion being against the
wall on the left-hand side of the picture, which is where you cannot
see it.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Are the people in this photograph looking in the direction
of the TV camera, I mean of the TV set?
Mr. CRAFARD. I would say the woman as I am looking at the left of the
picture, Joy Dale, is looking more in the direction than the rest of
them, the TV set in the corner over this way.
Mr. GRIFFIN. There is a TV set as you look from Jack Ruby’s position in
the photograph. It would be off at the far wall in the left-hand corner?
Mr. CRAFARD. To the left of him; yes, it would be to his left.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Is there a door shown behind Jack Ruby there?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; that is the door connecting his office to what was my
room.
Mr. GRIFFIN. So, in order to get into your room, you had to walk
through Jack’s office?
Mr. CRAFARD. No. I had a door off in the hall to my room, but this was
a connecting door from his office to my room.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Where is the door that enters Jack’s office?
Mr. CRAFARD. It would be almost immediately behind the girl on the
right-hand side, who is Little Lynn.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Is that door sort of opened up through the middle of the
wall or at one end of the wall?
Mr. CRAFARD. More or less to the end of the wall.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let’s mark on there, then, Little Lynn on the side that
she is on, and Jack Ruby in the middle; I am marking this on the back.
And Joy Dale. Now, the background of this picture, there appear to be
tacked up on the door a number of papers. Was that customary?
Mr. CRAFARD. He had a lot of different papers tacked, fastened to the
door there, hanging on it. He had a couple of pegs in the door he put
them on.
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