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. KANTOR. Yes. With the Associated Press in Detroit, and on the
Lamar, Colo., Daily News, and the Pueblo, Colo., Chieftain, the Denver
Rocky Mountain News. And I spent 5 years as a magazine writer for
magazines published in New York.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And did you live in Dallas at some time? Is that correct?
Mr. KANTOR. For a 2-year period.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And what was that 2-year period? Can you tell us when it
began and when it ended?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes. September 1960 until May 1962.
Mr. GRIFFIN. During those months, did you have occasion to meet Jack
Ruby?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Had you met him before September 1960?
Mr. KANTOR. No; I had not.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When did you first meet Mr. Ruby?
Mr. KANTOR. Well, it was within a very few months after I joined the
Times Herald. I was a feature writer for the paper. I think by nature
of the stories that I wrote, I sort of attracted Jack Ruby. He came up
to my desk one day and introduced himself and said that he owned a club
or clubs in town, and that he thought he might have some stories for me
from time to time, and he did.
Over the next several months, he provided me with maybe as many as
half-a-dozen feature stories, on characters in town.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Can you tell us what those stories are?
Mr. KANTOR. One was with an entertainer in his club, a lady who managed
to charm snakes while she was stripping. She was also a housewife in
the suburbs by day.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Was that story published?
Mr. KANTOR. Oh, yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Why don’t you just go through these 6 stories, if you
would, and tell us what they were, and if they were or were not
published.
Mr. KANTOR. Well, each was published. I might have some difficulty
remembering them at this point.
I remember a limbo dancer who he brought up from the Caribbean and said
that he was helping in getting his citizenship. I did a story with
the limbo dancer. We got a picture of him at the U.S. Naturalization
Service office in Dallas passing under a low bar.
I did a lot of stories. I am really not sure off the top of my head. I
wish I could have gotten out some old clips and prepared for this, if I
had realized. But they were stories of that nature, anyway.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And your best estimate is that there would have been about
half-a-dozen stories that you wrote?
Mr. KANTOR. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, did any of the stories that you wrote have to do with
Jack Ruby himself?
Mr. KANTOR. No. I never wrote about him. I never went into either of
his places.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you ever provide any publicity for Jack?
Mr. KANTOR. None, no.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You say you never went into any of his clubs. I take it by
that you also did not know him on a social basis.
Mr. KANTOR. Did not know him on a social basis, no.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When you would see him from time to time, about how long
would it be that you would talk with him?
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