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 you recall whether in making the entries in that book
you used pages in a consecutive fashion or whether you made entries on
pages at random so that there would be many blank pages interspersed
among pages that had writing on them?
Mr. CRAFARD. Most of it, I believe, was—from the first portion of the
book, from the front to the back was pretty well in rotation. If I turn
it over to the back and maybe flip over four or five pages and make a
notation in it, as I recall.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you mean by that that you would leave some blank pages
at the back?
Mr. CRAFARD. As I recall, there was blank pages left spaced in the back.
Mr. GRIFFIN. So your testimony would be that the book as you see it now
is not in the same condition as it was in when you left Dallas on the
23d of November?
Mr. CRAFARD. That is right.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Is there anything else about that book which appears to be
different from the way that you remember it when you left Dallas on the
23d?
Mr. CRAFARD. No; not that I can notice.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you have any general questions, Mr. Hubert, that you
want to ask about the book?
Mr. HUBERT. Yes; I would like to. What was the purpose of keeping that
book?
Mr. CRAFARD. I used it, Jack would get calls he wanted to keep the
number of and I’d write the number down in this book and later transfer
to another book, and then I would use it if a phone call come in
somebody wanting to talk to Jack I’d put the number down where he could
get in touch with them at so I could give him the number to call.
Mr. HUBERT. I think you testified that the first three or four pages
were made when you first bought the book?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. And were in fact numbers that you knew or he told you would
be frequently called, is that right?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; the first two pages on both sides.
Mr. HUBERT. He gave you those numbers?
Mr. CRAFARD. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, you were to keep the book in order to advise him
currently, that is to say, daily, of the calls and messages and so
forth that came in?
Mr. CRAFARD. That is right.
Mr. HUBERT. I suggest to you, therefore, that that book, in order to
serve the purpose that you stated, it was being kept for, would have
been used by making the entries in sequence as they came up and not
skipping around?
Mr. CRAFARD. I used the front of the book for numbers that Jack give me
that he wanted to keep. Then I’d use the back of the book for people
that called in for reservations at the club or he’d give me some
numbers he wanted to use right then, but he wouldn’t want to keep them,
or something of this sort.
Mr. HUBERT. My point is that when you first started to use the book did
you just put the first series of entries other than those numbers that
were frequently called just at random on any page, or would you put it
in the next available page?
Mr. CRAFARD. It would usually be on the next page. Sometimes I would
skip maybe two or three pages.
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