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. Needlenose; I seen his name in the paper. I never met
him.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How about Hershey Colvin?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Hershey was an Army buddy of Jack in Mississippi, and
Hershey is a gambler by profession, and he now is a bartender on the
north side of Chicago. That is about all I can tell you.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Tell us what you mean by a gambler by profession.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Well, years ago when everything was open in Chicago,
like certain communities were. He is a professional gambler. He dealt
cards or he run a crap table, or he was in that particular line. Maybe
he booked horses; I don’t know. But I know Hershey.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How about Jimmy Weinberg?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Never--I heard of him but I don’t know him.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you know Alex Gruber?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Never heard of him.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How about Mike Nemzin?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Oh, there is a nice guy. Mike is a nice guy, but Mike
is not Jack’s friend; he is Earl’s friend.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How about Marty Eritt?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Rambler agency in Chicago; very well respected and a
very nice guy.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was he a friend of Jack or was he Earl’s friend?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Both. I think Jack introduced him to Earl.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you ever loan Jack any money while he was down in
Dallas?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. No; I didn’t. Earl did, I think.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How about Eva; did you ever lend her any money down in
Dallas?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes. Eva went down there, I don’t know, before the war.
What she was doing down there I can’t tell you, how she ever fell in
love with that city that is her business. She came up to Chicago one
year, and I had a little money hustling around like I told you, buying
and selling things for myself. “I got a good spot,” she says. “1717
Ervay Street.” I said, “What do you need?” She says, “I need about a
thousand dollars.” I said, “What for?”
She wants to buy a piano, so I bought her a piano and cost me $625 for
the piano. She wanted a loudspeaker system for the nightclub, cost me
a couple of hundred bucks for that. Then she bought some dishes, and
some pots and pans for the restaurant in the back. I said, “O.K. I
will ship them all down to you.” We picked out the piano. I got her
the loudspeaker system, and the paraphernalia that goes with it, the
speakers, and we went down to Maxwell Street and we bought pots and
pans and dishes and cups and saucers and shipped it all down to Dallas,
Tex. That was the last I heard of it until I went down there. I was
subpenaed by the Government by a guy by the name of Paul Jones. They
got in a jam. How did she meet Paul Jones? Eva sent him up to Chicago
and he is in Chicago and he calls me. I came downtown and I met him. Do
you want this part of the story now?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes; go ahead.
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