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. He did fight with people on the street?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Oh, yes; oh, sure--sure. That is because they were
doing something to, something to hurt him.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Or at least he felt they did?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. That is right. He wouldn’t start anything. Let’s put it
that way. He wouldn’t start anything. He would let the other guy start
it. That would be the end.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Well, when you say he wouldn’t start anything, he
sometimes would strike the first blow, wouldn’t he? He didn’t wait for
the other guy to hit him?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. That is true. But there must have been cause to lead up
to it.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You feel that these--were there any times when you
observed him in a fight?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. So what you are telling us about his fights you heard from
other people, fights that he did get in? How about arguments? Have you
observed him in arguments with people?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes; he was a little bit stubborn with his arguments.
When he felt he had a certain idea that was it. He was a hard person to
change or to convince.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you think--was Jack a personally ambitious person?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Oh, definitely.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What were his aspirations and his ambitions? I want you
to tell us from your own personal knowledge. Do you have any personal
knowledge of what his aspirations and ambitions were, did he ever talk
to you about that?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. No; but I feel he always wanted to be successful and
he was capable, and always trying to meet the right type of people,
where he could either be friendly or have knowledge to a promotion.
Let’s put it that way. To him a promotion was the greatest thing in his
life, something to have exclusive that was his, with his experience in
selling items and promoting items, or promoting an individual, where he
would get some profit out of it, that was his ambition.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Well, was he interested in the promotion aside from making
money, was he interested in any notoriety that he might get out of it?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Jack was not the type, I am trying to tell you. Jack
was not the notorious type of a person. Because of all the fights that
he had, he never came home and told us about one. We had to hear it
from his friends.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he do anything, did he promote anything which would
have also involved the promotion of himself?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Explain that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Well, for example, in the promotion of this Little Daddy,
would it have become known that, generally known that, this was Jack’s
boy? Would Jack have received some recognition for that?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Possibly. It is possible naturally being in the
entertainment field and Jack was learning more and more about the
entertainment field and the prospects of promotion in another form,
naturally he would have to be recognized as he is the one who found
Sugar Daddy.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Can you think of any other thing that he was promoting,
any products that he was promoting?
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