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. Less than that. Why don’t you take an opportunity now to
tell us what you would like to tell us that I haven’t covered in the
questioning.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. May I add how a person can possibly shoot a guy like
Oswald, may I give you an example?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Certainly.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. A player is sitting on the football bench, a sub. A man
on the opposite team is running with the ball. The player gets off the
bench and tackles the guy with the ball. What do you call the instinct,
compulsion. That is the same situation with Jack. How do you account
for it. You don’t know. He had no business getting off that bench. He
is not even playing in the game any more than Jack had any business
being in that station. That is my answer why Jack did it. May I add
this?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. That police department is using Jack as a scapegoat
for their mistakes. Anything--they have nobody else to blame it on,
Jack Ruby. “You were responsible for the whole deal.” They are blaming
everything on him, and that is one of the reasons why these policemen
lied to save their own skins.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Which policemen?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. All five that testified. Jack never said those things.
He told me he never said those things about going to shoot him three
times. No man tells you he is going to shoot a person three times. And
then about him saying that the Jews are cowards and he stuck up for the
Jews.
Jack is not that type of a guy because he doesn’t talk about those
things. Sure he is a Jew but you don’t go out telling the world about
it.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you recall the things that Jack specifically denied
when he talked to you about those policemen’s testimony?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes, sir.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Tell us which ones they were?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. All of them. He said--Jack did not talk to any of the
policemen at all. He said he didn’t say anything like that at all
to them. He don’t even recall mentioning anything that those five
policemen testified that he talked to them about, anything like that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he mention those specific things or did he just talk
generally about it?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Just generally.
Mr. GRIFFIN. So when you mentioned, for example, you said something
about the Jewish motivation or whatever it was.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes; I don’t think Jack would talk like that to a
businessman.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did Jack mention that particular topic to you?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. No, no, no.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How about the shooting the three times, did he mention
that particular incident?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. No: but he said he would never discuss those things in
general.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Go ahead.
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