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. I don’t know anybody in Havana. Jack had friends there.
Jack had a lot of friends there when the gambling was going good and
one of his friends from Dallas was a big shot down there and he invited
Jack down. Jack told me this himself. He invited Jack down to stay with
him for a week and Jack flew down, I think, I think.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let me ask you this question directly.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you recall ever having sent a telegram to Havana, Cuba,
from your brother Earl’s telephone?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. A telegram? No. I would have no reason for it.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Can you think of anybody outside of Earl’s family or
employees who might have used his business phone?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Earl has got 110 employees, God bless him. You know
anybody can pick up a phone in an office with 110 employees and make a
call or call Western Union and charge it to the phone.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I am asking you outside of that.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. No; I never did, no. Havana, Cuba, is as strange to
me as what was that word I gave you before, as Rhodesia. I think Jack
went down there one time and he had a connection for automobiles. This
was when Castro first went down there, I think it was in 1950. At that
time Castro was a friend of the United States. Jack was going to try to
sell them a lot of trucks or cars or something. Anyhow, the deal fell
through, whatever it was, with his friends from Dallas; may I add this?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. If you are trying to infer that Jack had any
connections with Castro or communism, that is not our brother. First of
all, Jack couldn’t even spell communism. I mean it in the sense of the
word, the relationship, none.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let me say I don’t want to infer anything. I am simply
asking you questions to clarify matters.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. You can clarify it right now. I will bet my life
that Jack wouldn’t have anything to do and never did with anybody.
Jack didn’t go for that kind of stuff. He wasn’t that kind of a man.
These Communists are supposed to be well read, beatniks, students
of universities. Jack doesn’t qualify for that kind of a deal. His
friends are showgirls, tavern owners, gamblers, other nightclub people,
promoters, manufacturers, that was his life, that is all. He opened two
nightclubs. What has he got to do with these other kinds of people?
What has he got to gain by it? He was doing good. He wore good clothes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he have any political interests?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I don’t think so; not in Dallas, I don’t think in
Dallas.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he have any political interest in Chicago?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I was the only politician but we were all Democrats for
me.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did Jack get involved in politics at all in Chicago?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you ever discuss politics with him?
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