Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Mr. KANTOR. Well, I would like to say that a little more than 6 months
have passed and I think I have doubted almost anything in searching
my memory which has happened over a period of 6 months or more in my
lifetime. I think if you think about something a good deal you wonder
whether it actually happened.
However, I was indelibly sure at the time and have continued to be so
that the man who stopped me and with whom I talked was Jack Ruby. I
feel strongly about it because I had known Jack Ruby and he did call me
by my first name as he came up behind me, and at that moment under the
circumstances it was a fairly normal conversation.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Were there any acquaintances that you had in Dallas while
you were there, who you in the past had mistaken for Jack Ruby? Have
you ever had the experience of seeing somebody else and mistaking him
for Jack Ruby?
Mr. KANTOR. I see what you mean. No; that never occurred at any time.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you know people in Dallas who ran some of the other
nightclubs?
Mr. KANTOR. I had met Mr. Barney Weinstein who operates at least a
couple of strip joints that I know of, and that was on one occasion
when I was doing a story on a stripteaser named Candy Barr and that
occasion was when I was going down to the State prison where she was
living at the time to do a story on her for the paper and that was the
only time I had met Mr. Weinstein.
However, there is a booking agent in Dallas whose nickname is Pappy, I
have his name in my notes here somewhere.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Is that Pappy Dolson?
Mr. KANTOR. D-o-l-s-o-n, that is right. I had done a story on him,
and he was well acquainted with Jack Ruby, I knew, and then I saw him
while I remained in Dallas after the assassination, spoke to him and
interviewed him for a story.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do either Weinstein or Dolson bear any resemblance to Jack
Ruby?
Mr. KANTOR. None. None, nothing that close that I would mistake them.
Neither one, I don’t believe, either, would stop me in the passageway
of the hospital after I had been gone for a year and a half and call me
by my first name. I don’t think they would remember me that easily or
have any special reason to call me by my first name.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, you have brought a series of papers and notebooks
with you. Can you work from these one at a time, can you tell us what
you have there?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes. Initially, I have the notebook I took down with me to
Texas from Washington while accompanying the President, and in it are
the notes of the trip.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let me look at it a second.
Mr. KANTOR. Sure, I was just going to recommend you skip the first
page. Those were notes I made on the plane going down. From then on
anything you want to look at is fine.
Mr. GRIFFIN. The notebook that you handed me is a notebook that is a
long stenographic type notebook. I would say it is 8 inches long and
perhaps 3 to 4 inches wide.
Mr. KANTOR. It sounds reasonable, yes.
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