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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XIII - Page 385« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Mrs. Bertha Cheek)

Mrs. Cheek.
I have them back to 1947.
Mr. Griffin.
We haven't asked you to bring any records.
Mrs. Cheek.
Not down here, I couldn't bring them all.
Mr. Griffin.
I am wondering if----
Mrs. Cheek.
The man went through those records at the house. I let them go all through whatever they wanted to when they came out.
Mr. Griffin.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation?
Mrs. Cheek.
Yes. And I told them what connection I had in connection with Jack Ruby. He asked me to put $6,000 in a nightclub.
Mr. Griffin.
I am wondering if I could ask you if you will make those records available again? I think what I would like to do is ask one of the Secret Service agents to go out there and either make some arrangements to photocopy them and then return them to you, or else if it would be more convenient to let me look at them for some short period of time, and then return them to you. I think I would prefer to photocopy them, unless they are voluminous and it would be prohibitive. I think I would only be going back to January 1959.
Mrs. Cheek.
Those two men went through everything I had and looked at it.
Mr. Griffin.
Would you object if I----
Mrs. Cheek.
It is just an awful lot of trouble for me right now because I am very busy and I have illness in my home. If I thought I could help you, and really if there is anything there, I would bring them down myself to you.
Mr. Griffin.
I would like to do this in a way that would be least inconvenient.
Mrs. Cheek.
But I don't know Oswald and I just knew Jack Ruby when he asked me to invest $6,000 and I didn't do it. I didn't like the way he wanted me to invest. He wanted to put in $1,000, and me $6,000.
Mr. Griffin.
What would be the least inconvenient way to do this? If perhaps all the books are in one place, we could get the books from January 1, 1959, on to the present and photocopy them in a day and then return them to you. Would that be convenient?
Mrs. Cheek.
I have them stored, is the only thing. I have a lot of things in front, and it is difficult in digging it out, you know.
Mr. Griffin.
I suppose really--is there going to be anytime in the next week or so that would be more convenient for you than any other time?
Mrs. Cheek.
I really don't know of anything else. My daughter has cancer. She may be well and she may not be, I don't know.
Mr. Griffin.
Let me ask you this. Would you retain these records, and sometime during the next month, let me ask one of the agents to contact you again in connection with getting copies of them for us, and you could work out at that time what would be most convenient to you. If you don't like it that way, then suggest it some other way, because I want to do this some way that would be least inconvenient to you.
Mrs. Cheek.
Well, you are welcome to come to see them again as far as that is concerned, but I don't want to let them go out of my hands. I am not going to let them go from me, because if some of those things are missing, it is my fault. The men can come out there any time and look them over if they want to look them over and take pictures or whatever they may want to do, or copy them all off. They can come out there and just copy every name that I have ever had or ever rented to from the time of 1947, if they would like.
Mr. Griffin.
If this were done at your home, that would be the best so far as you are concerned?
Mrs. Cheek.
Yes; I will have to go get them. I never have moved them from Swiss Avenue, and they are in the storage house. I will have to go over and get them and bring them over to Hillcrest.
Mr. Griffin.
How many different boxes are we talking about?
Mrs. Cheek.
Everything I have ever owned, I guess is what I was going to give you. That is what I did before. Every record I have, every name that I ever rented to, I give it to the men that was out there and you may have them now.
Mr. Griffin.
I am sure we don't want to go back that far. Well, let me see what we can work out, with the Secret Service or the Bureau, and then I will either contact you myself about it or I will ask someone of the agents to
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