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 do you think that signifies about Jack’s concern?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. He didn’t like the signature for one which was a Jewish
name. And he thought it was another organization disgracing the Jews.
Mr. GRIFFIN. How do you get that impression that that was his--how do
you get that impression?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. That is the way it would hit me. Why would an
organization like this put down the name Weissman and put down all
these grievances in the newspapers with a black border around it and
then--oh, when he couldn’t find--when Jack couldn’t find--the name of
the owner of the post office box so he asked the clerk, “Does this
ad belong to Oswald,” and the clerk says, “I can’t answer you that,
either.” He thought there was a connection between this and Oswald, and
Oswald was using a phoney name in the ad.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Has Jack told you any of that?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Eva, because Eva spoke to Jack about it, and Jack told
Eva that.
Mr. GRIFFIN. So it is your understanding that Eva learned this from
Jack?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. From Jack directly.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And he thought Oswald was using a phoney name in the
advertisement and trying to disgrace the Jews?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. And also disgracing the President. You don’t call a
President Mr. Kennedy. You call him Mr. President with respect to his
title. And also trying to disgrace the name of Earl Warren, Supreme
Court Justice of the United States.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And he thought Oswald might have done the same thing?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Right or his organization or somebody connected with
that group whoever it was. He couldn’t understand it, somebody was
doing it. There was the evidence and that bothered him. It kept boiling
in him and boiling in him and finally he blew up and when he saw Oswald
then he really blew up, and that is all I can tell you, gentlemen.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you know or have you heard of anything that happened in
Dallas between the time the President was shot and the time that Jack
shot Oswald----
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. That would have led Jack to think that other people
thought the Jews were behind the assassination of the President?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. No; I did not hear anything like that. You see we
didn’t go down to Dallas--I didn’t go down there to Dallas--until
almost Christmas time. That was almost a whole month so I didn’t know
anything about it.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I want to make sure my question is clear because it is
possible that it can be misunderstood. I am not suggesting that the
Jews were--that the Jews were behind the assassination.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Of course not.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What I am suggesting is that there might have been that
kind of talk in Dallas which might have disturbed Jack and whether you
heard that there was, whether you heard that there was such kind of
talk going on in Dallas that did disturb him.
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