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. What happened? Let’s try to take this, if we can,
chronologically. What happened when you walked in the door?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I can’t remember that particular incident. You mean
what time I got home and what happened? I don’t remember. I don’t even
remember who was home.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What is the first thing you remember doing when you were
home that evening or afternoon?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. The family was--our family couldn’t believe it because
it happened in Dallas. It was a bad rap for the city of Dallas and we
having there members of our family down there, sort of like a black
mark; you know, it sort of gets you. How come of all the places, in
Dallas? You know. Then we got a call. Would you mind me telling you
about?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes; I want to know about that.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. At 9 o’clock Friday night we got a call from Jack. He
felt very, very bad about.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How long did he talk to you?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Oh, quite a while.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How long would you say?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I would say 10 or 15 minutes. He was disgusted with the
whole situation down there. He said, “You know this is a good time for
me to sell out and come back up north.”
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he talk to you?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. To me.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What did you say?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I didn’t know what to tell him. What can I tell him. I
am a thousand miles away from him. I don’t know what the answer could
be, I hadn’t seen him in quite a while. I don’t know what his position
is down there. I couldn’t see what his selling out would help with
losing our wonderful President. It was too close to the assassination
to even think. What could you tell a person?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Why did he want to sell out?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. He was so disgusted and fed up with the whole God damn
town, that is why.
Mr. GRIFFIN. He was upset with Dallas?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Absolutely.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. Tell us what he said that indicated that, and
what his earlier problems had been that would have, you know, made him
feel that way?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Well, he had no problems outside of this union, and
the hiring, getting new girls for the show. That he probably could
have straightened out eventually; and he was going all right. He was
making money, I imagine, because I believe he was paying all his bills.
I think he owed Uncle Sam a little money but he straightened that out
eventually.
But the fact is that he probably didn’t want to have any connection
between a city that murdered his President and him--he just wanted to
separate himself from that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What did he say to you that indicated that?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Because he said, “This is a good time for me to sell
out and come back up north.”
Mr. GRIFFIN. That is all you can remember him saying?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. That is all I can remember him saying. He says, he
started off, “Can you imagine, can you imagine,” like that, and he
sounded like he had tears in his eyes.
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