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. Because the reason we have asked you to come here is so
that we can get----
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. I know. Look, we had nothing to hide. Any member of
the family will cooperate 100 percent. Any of our friends and lawyers
will cooperate 100 percent or we want to know why. We don’t believe
in shooting Presidents. Let’s put it that way. We love this country,
and we make our living here, we all served in the army here. We were
brought up in this country, and it is our duty to cooperate with a law
enforcement agency or any agency that wants to investigate a thing of
this type.
It is unfortunate that our brother Jack had to be involved but many of
our friends feel that he is a hero because they felt they would have
done the same thing under similar circumstances.
How can a man premeditate, his dog Sheba was in the car, $2,000 in
cash, all that photographic equipment in the back trunk with the adding
machine and the tire, the dog is waiting for him, and Jack happened
to carry the gun because that was the night’s receipts in the car and
he happened to have it with him and if that girl in Fort Worth hadn’t
called him that morning at 10 o’clock, Jack would still have been
sleeping and forgotten all about it.
So, the man must have blacked out, nothing else could convince me,
and nothing else convinces any of my friends that I talked to. People
who don’t even know him they said that is what must have happened.
He blacked out. I understand that Jack cried like a baby when the
President was shot. He cried more than when his own father died. His
own father was 88 years old when he passed away in the year of 1958, I
believe.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Mr. Rubenstein, who did you hear about the crying from?
Who told you about the crying?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Eva; he made her sick. He came over there crying.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Go ahead.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Also from the rabbi in Dallas. He went to synagogue
Saturday night, and he cried, and there is witnesses to prove it in the
synagogue.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Are there people in the synagogue who saw him?
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. People in the synagogue that saw him crying when they
had a special, some services for the President and they saw him crying
and the rabbi saw him crying. They didn’t believe a guy like Jack would
ever cry. I don’t know the rabbi’s name but----
Mr. GRIFFIN. Silverman.
Mr. RUBENSTEIN. Silverman. He will testify to that and he will bring
witnesses who saw him cry. Jack never cried in his life. He is not that
kind of a guy to cry. Never complained about nothing. Never talked
about any heroic deeds that he ever did. He didn’t go for that stuff.
Mr. GRIFFIN. He wasn’t; you wouldn’t characterize him as somebody who
bragged?
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