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. Let’s say he borrowed $20 from some friend who had
$20. Two days before the fight he would buy $20 worth of tickets, and
then if the fight was a sellout, he would sell the tickets for maybe
50 cents or a dollar more than what he paid for the ticket and people
would be glad to pay him for it on the outside. So, he would make
himself $5 or $6, and $5 or $6 during those years would go a long way.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Would he buy these tickets at the box office or would
there be somebody else who would go in and buy up a big block of them?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. No; he would go to the box office himself.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let’s get back to your own activities a bit. Can you tell
us generally what you did from the time you got out of high school in
1922 until you went into the service in 1942?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I drove a cab for a while, I worked in a drugstore for
a while, worked for Albert Pick and Company, they were a big hotel
supply house on 35th Street.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What did you do for them?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I was an assistant buyer, I want you to know, and I
liked it, it was interesting. I was in politics for a good many years.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Can you tell us about that?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Sure. It was during my Deborah Boys Club days, I met
a man by the name of Morris Feiwell, who took a liking to me, and he
encouraged me to finish school, like a sponsor, you know, and when I
graduated he says, “You come on downtown and talk to me. What do you
want to be?” I says, “I don’t know.” He says, “Do you like to study
continuously?” And frankly, I didn’t. He said, “Well, don’t study
law. I was going to put you through law school but if you don’t like
to study continuously after you learn a profession, don’t study law.”
And through him I met many big political men in Chicago, because Mr.
Feiwell was associated to our ex-Governor Henry Horner. Henry Horner
was probate judge of Cook County, and a probate judge in Cook County is
the biggest judge in the area because he took care of 5 million people
probating wills.
The judge took a liking to me because we done certain things, running
errands for him, distributing literature for the campaigns--then I met
different people, I met Ben Lindheimer. Ben Lindheimer was a big man in
Chicago, owned Arlington Park and Washington Park racetracks later on.
He finally became chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission and also
president of the Board of Local Improvements in Chicago. So, I got
a job as a sidewalk inspector. That is when I decided to go back to
school, because the job as a sidewalk inspector was a political job,
sponsored by Ben Lindheimer.
Mr. GRIFFIN. That would have been in the 1930’s sometime.
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