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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XV - Page 40« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Hyman Rubenstein)

Mr. Rubenstein.
man tells you he is going to shoot a person three times. And then about him saying that the Jews are cowards and he stuck up for the Jews.
Jack is not that type of a guy because he doesn't talk about those things. Sure he is a Jew but you don't go out telling the world about it.
Mr. Griffin.
Do you recall the things that Jack specifically denied when he talked to you about those policemen's testimony?
Mr. Rubenstein.
Yes, sir.
Mr. Griffin.
Tell us which ones they were?
Mr. Rubenstein.
All of them. He said--Jack did not talk to any of the policemen at all. He said he didn't say anything like that at all to them. He don't even recall mentioning anything that those five policemen testified that he talked to them about, anything like that.
Mr. Griffin.
Did he mention those specific things or did he just talk generally about it?
Mr. Rubenstein.
Just generally.
Mr. Griffin.
So when you mentioned, for example, you said something about the Jewish motivation or whatever it was.
Mr. Rubenstein.
Yes; I don't think Jack would talk like that to a businessman.
Mr. Griffin.
Did Jack mention that particular topic to you?
Mr. Rubenstein.
No, no, no.
Mr. Griffin.
How about the shooting the three times, did he mention that particular incident?
Mr. Rubenstein.
No; but he said he would never discuss those things in general.
Mr. Griffin.
Go ahead.
Mr. Rubenstein.
That television man who was downstairs taking movies of the thing, he made he was testifying on the stand that at 10:25 and at 10:35 Jack came over and asked him twice when they were going to bring out Oswald. If he was 11:17 in the Western Union and got up to mail the money to this Little Lynn what would he be doing down at the station at 10:25 And who would dare walk into a police station with 30 policemen in front of television and radio reporters and shoot anybody unless you blacked out. The man must be crazy to do that.
Mr. Griffin.
This one episode about the police officers' testimony is apparently something that sticks in your mind. How many conversations did you have with Jack about the policemen's testimony?
Mr. Rubenstein.
Didn't have hardly any. We don't talk about those things, what happened at the trial. We didn't want to relive the trial. We didn't want to relive the shooting even.
Mr. Griffin.
When did you first hear about, when did you first hear Jack deny that he had said the things that the policemen testified to?
Mr. Rubenstein.
It either could have been in December or it could have been right, at one of the nights of the trial. I don't remember which. I don't know when those statements were made. It could have been after the trial. Because that is when the FBI took the report, too, I think.
Mr. Griffin.
Who else was present?
Mr. Rubenstein.
Eva and Earl.
Mr. Griffin.
Sam?
Mr. Rubenstein.
Sam might have been present at another time but I don't think he was present at that particular time. It could have been. I don't remember, you know when you have got problems on your head that are heavy, you don't pick out, pinpoint different things. Nobody is that good.
Mr. Griffin.
Well, do you recall, can you form a visual image in your own mind of going up there and seeing Jack on the occasion that he talked about the police officers' testimony?
Mr. Rubenstein.
No; because we saw him often. We saw him many times, we saw him in the evening during the trial and, after the trial we saw him in the afternoon and evening both. So there was a lot of visits made between myself and also other members of the family.
Mr. Griffin.
How about anything else about Jack, that might have caused Jack to do this. Do you have any other things you want to tell us about that?
Mr. Rubenstein.
I believe I have mentioned the most important things and
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