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. That television man who was downstairs taking movies of
the thing, he made--he was testifying on the stand that at 10:25 and at
10:35 Jack came over and asked him twice when they were going to bring
out Oswald. If he was 11:17 in the Western Union and got up to mail the
money to this Little Lynn what would he be doing down at the station at
10:25. And who would dare walk into a police station with 30 policemen
in front of television and radio reporters and shoot anybody unless you
blacked out. The man must be crazy to do that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. This one episode about the police officers’ testimony is
apparently something that sticks in your mind. How many conversations
did you have with Jack about the policemen’s testimony?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Didn’t have hardly any. We don’t talk about those
things, what happened at the trial. We didn’t want to relive the trial.
We didn’t want to relive the shooting even.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When did you first hear about, when did you first hear
Jack deny that he had said the things that the policemen testified to?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. It either could have been in December or it could have
been right, at one of the nights of the trial. I don’t remember which.
I don’t know when those statements were made. It could have been after
the trial. Because that is when the FBI took the report, too, I think.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Who else was present?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Eva and Earl.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Sam?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Sam might have been present at another time but I don’t
think he was present at that particular time. It could have been. I
don’t remember, you know when you have got problems on your head that
are heavy, you don’t pick out, pinpoint different things. Nobody is
that good.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Well, do you recall, can you form a visual image in your
own mind of going up there and seeing Jack on the occasion that he
talked about the police officers’ testimony?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. No; because we saw him often. We saw him many times, we
saw him in the evening during the trial and after the trial we saw him
in the afternoon and evening both. So there was a lot of visits made
between myself and also other members of the family.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How about anything else about Jack, that might have caused
Jack to do this. Do you have any other things you want to tell us about
that?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I believe I have mentioned the most important things
and gave you gentlemen some good examples. Yes; you didn’t ask me what
led up to this thing, how come?
Mr. GRIFFIN. That is what I am asking you now.
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