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. Did you know he went out at 3 o’clock in the morning
with George Senator and Larry Crafard, the kid that watched the
nightclub, at nighttime and took tickets for Jack, Jack charged $2 a
ticket to get into his club. It was no bums’ hangout. It was a classy
joint. So Larry used to take the tickets and also sleep there at
nighttime. Jack got up to go at 3 o’clock in the morning one time,
and this was told to me by both, George Senator and Larry, they went
out and they took a picture of a great big billboard, “Impeach Earl
Warren,” the pictures and camera were in the car that Jack was going to
use as evidence when the city policemen confiscated his car, you can
make a note of this, they took the camera, they took the pictures, they
took his adding machine, and they took his spare tire. What a bunch of
characters down there.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What has become of that?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. We would like to know. They took his diamond ring, they
took a very good wristwatch.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Have you asked for that?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. And his blue suit he wore when he shot Oswald, we would
like to have that all back, and his gun.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Have you asked for it?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I think they have but they haven’t had any success.
If Jack cannot have the gun, then we would like to submit it to the
Smithsonian Institution or in his library.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Kennedy’s Library?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. That is right. Because Jack bought the gun legitimately
in a Dallas store under his name. And also when he walked into that
newspaper office, and there was a big black border around, a full page
ad signed by somebody by the name of Weissman, Jack didn’t like that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When did you hear about that?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Eva told me this. Eva says, “You know, Jack came here
one day showing me all this thing and I couldn’t believe it.”
You know, when a person reads a paper you don’t always pay attention.
It was addressed not to the President of the United States. I
understand the ad was addressed to Mr. Kennedy with grievances, signed
by the committee. With a post office and box number in Dallas, with
a black border around a full-page ad. When Jack was changing the ad
of his closing dates of the club the minute the President got shot in
the newspapers, he got ahold of someone in the newspaper office, as I
understand it, and that man will have to testify, and Jack said to him,
“Do you have to accept an ad like this? Is business that bad? The other
newspapers in town didn’t take it.” Then he went over Saturday morning
to the post office and got ahold of one of the clerks and he says, “Can
you tell me who belongs to this post office box number,” and the clerk
says, “We can’t tell you that.”
Mr. GRIFFIN. Hyman, what do you think is the significance of Jack’s
concern with the ad and with the “Impeach Earl Warren” sign?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. And the ad calling Mr. Kennedy instead of “Mr.
President,” with the grievance committee to----
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