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. GRIFFIN. Well, that would be understandable.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Is it October? Because I know I was in the service for
6 months. That I am positive of.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now do you recall when you left the service coming back to
work for the Arlington Park Jockey Club?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I don’t recall but I probably did.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What did you do for them?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. You are a ticket puncher like he is doing now. You come
over and ask for number two I gave you number two. You ask for number
five, I gave you number five.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You worked in the mutuel window?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes, mutuel window.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Your record here indicates that you didn’t have any
employment covered by social security from 1944 to early 1949.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Then----
Mr. GRIFFIN. What were you doing during that period after you left the
Washington Park Jockey Club, and actually the last place you worked at
the National Jockey Club.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I don’t know about the names of the jockey club but I
worked at the racetrack for a while as a mutuel ticket seller.
As I said before, and I am repeating again, that I bought what I could
and sold on the road for myself, and I made a living that way.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I see.
It is my understanding you were selling novelties?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Novelties, premiums, punchboards, that is about it.
That covers a lot of territory.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What part of the country did you travel in when you were
doing that?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I covered the Middle West.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you cover any of the South?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. No. I never cared much for the South.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you recall in the latter part of 1949 working in
Ripley, Ohio?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What did you do there?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I was a bartender for a friend of mine, Bob Knoff. He
owned a tavern, the Riviera Cafe at Front and Main Streets, and Bob
said to me, I came down to visit him and he said “What are you doing?”
And I said, “Bumming around, making a few bucks selling items.” He
said, “I need a bartender. Help me out for a while.” I said, “OK.” So
I stayed with him, I don’t know, for about a year, about a year or so,
about a year, I think.
Mr. GRIFFIN. 6 months.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. All right, 6 months. I don’t remember. 1949. Then I
went back to Chicago. I fixed a few things for him.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What did you do after you worked for Mr. Knoff?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. What year was that, 1949?
Mr. GRIFFIN. 1949, 1950.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I went back to my own business again, I think.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let me just ask you if you remember working for some of
these companies and then I will ask you some general questions.
Do you remember working for the Fisher Pen Co.?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was that a----
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Paul Fisher is a very dear friend of mine, salesman.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Chicago Cardboard Co.?
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