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. It is hard to talk to people through a piece of glass
like that. You have got a barrier between you. He looked good. Jack
looked good, but he didn’t act right. He looked disturbed to me.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What about him, what did you see that----
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. He wasn’t our Jack 100 percent. There was something
bothering him.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You don’t know?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I don’t know. I am not a psychiatrist. I can’t figure
the man out. We knew it wasn’t right. We thought it was the environment
in the jail, maybe he was mistreated.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Are you talking about the time you saw him before
the--before Christmas?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What did he say or what indications did you see about his
face or mannerisms?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Something like “What are they keeping me here for, what
have they got me in here for?”
Half sentences. He asked me if I called certain people and here I
haven’t even known any people. He gave me a list of names to call and
I tried to write them down, you know, quick and I didn’t know nobody.
I didn’t want to argue with him. I didn’t want to aggravate his
situation. I didn’t want to disturb him any more than I had to and he
gave me names, called off names, I said I will get in touch with them.
Later on when I went out with Eva, I said, “Who are these people I am
supposed to call?” She says, “Forget about it. He gives me the same
thing, people I am supposed to see and call to help him.” I didn’t
know. And he wanted us to get every lawyer in the State of Texas. “Did
you call this guy? Did you call Percy Foreman and did you call him?” I
didn’t know anybody. We didn’t know who to call. We were strangers in
Texas. We were never in trouble before.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he ask you to call people other than lawyers?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. His personal friends, his personal friends. I think
some owed him some money, no names were mentioned that Eva didn’t
know. She knew all the names he mentioned. That is why she told me to
forget about it. She probably had already contacted them. Friends in
Dallas, personal people who were either very dear friends of his and
club members. And he was worried more about the dogs than he was about
anybody else.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was the occasion that you went down to see him before
Christmas, was that at the time of the bail bond hearing? Do you
remember the hearings?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I don’t remember what the hearing was but I was down
there.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you go down there for a hearing in December?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I don’t remember. I think it was a bail bond hearing.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You say he was more concerned about the dogs?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Than anything else?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes, sir; worried about his dogs. I figured that was
odd. Here is a man incarcerated, in prison for a shooting and here he
is worried about his dogs and that didn’t make any sense to me.
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