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 never even knew the incidents about the chair with
Roosevelt until this manager of the Zebra, the manager of the Zebra
Cafe on 63d Street, I have got to get you his name----
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Told me about it. I never heard of it because he
doesn’t talk about those things.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Can you think of anything else that you want to bring to
the attention of the Commission?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Jack was a loyal 1,000 percent American, served in the
Army for 3 years with the best record of our family, of all the boys
who were in the service, and by the way, when my father went down with
Jack and Earl and Sammy to enlist in the service, my father says to the
recruiting officer, “Take me” and he must have been at least 65 years
old.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Jack didn’t go into the service until some time in 1943?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Right. After I came out he went in.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And Jack applied for deferment initially, didn’t he?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes; because he was the only one home. We were all in.
My mother was alone. Earl was in, Earl was in the Seabees, Sammy was in
the Air Corps and I was in the Field Artillery.
Mr. GRIFFIN. There has been a rumor that Jack feigned a hearing
disability in order to avoid military service?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Not Jack. No; not Jack. No; he was a good soldier and
I told you before he had the best record of all of us on his discharge
papers.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I think maybe we can conclude here. I am asking you to
identify some interview reports that we have, and I will give you a
chance to read them over. I am going to mark for identification three
different exhibits.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. O.K.
Mr. GRIFFIN. The first one is an interview report prepared by Special
Agent George H. Parfet.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes; I know him.
Mr. GRIFFIN. I want to start with these chronologically. The first one
is a copy of an interview report prepared by special agents of the FBI,
Maurice J. White and Robert B. Lee, of an interview that they had with
you on November 24, 1963, in Chicago.
I am going to mark this “Washington, D.C., deposition of Hyman
Rubenstein, June 5th, 1964, Exhibit No. 3.” This consists of two pages
numbered at the bottom 193 and 194, respectively.
I will hand you the exhibit and ask you to read it over and then I will
ask you some questions about it.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. That is about correct. Because I didn’t know anything
else.
(Hyman Rubenstein Exhibit No. 3 was marked for identification.)
Mr. GRIFFIN. You have had a chance to examine Exhibit No. 3.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Are there any corrections you feel ought to be made in
that report?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. The only thing I am doubtful is this, “He then had Jack
as a salesman for several companies believed to be the Stanley Oliver
Company and the Spartan Company now defunct.” That I am sure about.
That is the only paragraph. The rest of it is 100 percent true. And
that is the way it was as I remember it.
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