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
Mrs. RICHEY. Yes; but then sometimes she’d work as waitress and then
one night one of the girls didn’t show up or something. I think this
was on a Sunday night. This was before this happened I mean, and one
of the girls didn’t show up and Jack asked her if she would dance, and
I think she danced, and we had three shows, I mean you know, it was
continuous, but it was three shows, and she danced. And then--you will
have to pardon me, I have to recollect this in my mind.
Then it seems like she come back down after she got through dancing and
was waitressing some more, and she did I think until her next number,
and then Jack told her that I could handle the floor by myself. And I
can’t remember if Dianna ever waitressed and danced at the same time.
I don’t remember that. She might have. Just right now I can’t remember
but that girl I happen to know because I was working by myself.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did the dancers mix with the customers in between their
acts?
Mrs. RICHEY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And am I correct in assuming that the purpose of this was
to induce the customers to buy drinks and so forth?
Mrs. RICHEY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And did the customers buy drinks for the girls as well as
for themselves?
Mrs. RICHEY. The only thing you can buy in Texas, I don’t know if you
know this, is setups and champagne. You can’t buy liquor across the
bar. And so if they were drinking, well you know they had a bottle, and
if not they had bought, you know, drinks for the girls, too.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you remember an incident that occurred with Jack’s
stripper Jada? Can you tell us about that?
Mrs. RICHEY. I can’t give you details on it. I can tell you what I know
about it.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Tell us what you observed, not what you heard from other
people but what you actually saw take place.
Mrs. RICHEY. What I saw Jada do?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mrs. RICHEY. She was from New Orleans, and she kind of danced a little
bit different from what I was used to seeing. I don’t know how you
would explain it. A G-string, is that what you call it, she popped it,
if I can make you understand what I am talking about, and I saw her
do this one time, and Jack would cut the lights out on her and she’d
get mad. Now this is what they had the fight about, because Jack would
shut the lights out on her when she got too dirty for him. I mean he’d
just shut the lights out. And so if I am not mistaken this is what they
kept arguing about. Finally they went to court one night. But this was
because that she had popped her G-string again. But I didn’t see it
that night. Becky did, and she went down to court with him and they
were gone quite awhile. But Jada won and he had to pay her and then she
left. And that was Jada.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did Jack threaten her or hit her in any way?
Mrs. RICHEY. I don’t know if he hit her.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he threaten her in any way?
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