Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) — John Shaqi
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. RUBENSTEIN. I don’t remember when he came back. I think he came
back after my mother died.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When you returned to the home, did all the rest of the
children return at that time?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. So the family was brought back together somehow?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How did that come about?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I couldn’t tell you.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Who was supporting the family by 1922?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. My father, I think, was giving $10 a week, and the
girls were working, I was working, and we tried to keep the rest of the
kids in school.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Can you tell us--first of all, let me ask you, after 1922,
prior to the time you went into the service, were there any periods
when you weren’t living in the family home?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. When I wasn’t living in the family home?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. After 1922?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. No; I think I stayed home. I thought it my duty, I
believe, to stay home. I think it was that way. I think I felt an
obligation to take care, help take care of the family because my father
wasn’t living with us.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did Jack, do you recall when Jack left school?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. He went to high school, I think, for 1 year, I believe
he went 1 year.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How did he come to leave school?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I don’t know. We often wonder ourselves because Jack is
no dummy. He has got a good head on him. I don’t think he liked school,
let’s put it that way. That would be honest. He just did not like
school, that is all there was to it.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Are there any incidents that you can recall which would
indicate that?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. He wouldn’t do his homework, that is a good enough
incident.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How about his companions during that period?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. He had nice friends. He always had, because Jack was
a little bit choosy about his friends, I mean it. He always had nice
friends, fellows who either they were doctors’ sons or boys in the
neighborhood that respected Jack, and Jack was more progressive than
the rest of us, was a hustler.
Anything that he could go out and sell and make a dollar, legitimately,
even if he had to go on the road, and sell items, he was always trying
to work, always tried to--he wouldn’t have a steady job, but he was
always on the go thinking of ideas of how to make a dollar and helping
the family.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you remember when he left school what he first started
to do?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. That is a good question. I imagine--let me think what
he did do. I think he scalped a few tickets during the fights. All
the kids used to do that to try to make an extra buck. That is the
only revelation that I have in my mind, but as far as a steady job was
concerned, no. Jack never cared for no steady jobs.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How did this particular ticket scalping work, where would
he get the tickets?
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