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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XIV - Page 5« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of Curtis Laverne Crafard Resumed)

Mr. Hubert.
Now, you were to keep the book in order to advise him currently, that is to say, daily, of the calls and messages and so forth that came in?
Mr. Crafard.
That is right.
Mr. Hubert.
I suggest to you, therefore, that that book, in order to serve the purpose that you stated, it was being kept for, would have been used by making the entries in sequence as they came up and not skipping around?
Mr. Crafard.
I used the front of the book for numbers that Jack give me that he wanted to keep. Then I'd use the back of the book for people that called in for reservations at the club or he'd give me some numbers he wanted to use right then, but he wouldn't want to keep them, or something of this sort.
Mr. Hubert.
My point is that when you first started to use the book did you just put the first series of entries other than those numbers that were frequently called just at random on any page, or would you put it in the next available page?
Mr. Crafard.
It would usually be on the next page. Sometimes I would skip maybe two or three pages.
Mr. Hubert.
Did you have any reason for doing that?
Mr. Crafard.
I'd want to have the pages there, a couple of blank pages there, like this one here which should have been torn out. I don't know why I didn't.
Mr. Hubert.
What page are you referring to?
Mr. Crafard.
The reverse side of page 12. It is a list of some sandwiches I went out and got for a couple of the girls that worked at the club.
Mr. Hubert.
Are you suggesting to us that the book served several functions and that there were different portions of it for each function?
Mr. Crafard.
That is right.
Mr. Hubert.
I think you said that the back of each page was used for the function of putting down reservations.
Mr. Crafard.
I might use two or three pages right in a row for that, or I might take a page right out of the middle of the book.
Mr. Hubert.
And leave it in the book?
Mr. Crafard.
Usually I tore the page out. The pages I transferred over and when I got the book full I'd just throw the book away and get another book.
Mr. Hubert.
Which book are you talking of?
Mr. Crafard.
These notebooks like this.
Mr. Hubert.
You had more than one?
Mr. Crafard.
I believe I had one other notebook similar to this, the same type of a notebook as this.
Mr. Griffin.
Do you recall what you did with that notebook?
Mr. Crafard.
No, I don't.
Mr. Hubert.
I thought you testified that this was the one that you started off with.
Mr. Crafard.
Yes.
Mr. Hubert.
There was another one that you bought later?
Mr. Crafard.
Yes. I used it quite frequently. I'd tear the pages out and write down the reservations a lot, most of the time. I had this book and when I started putting reservations down I thought I'd get another book and use it for that and then I'd have this one just for the phone numbers and I wouldn't mess up the reservations.
Mr. Hubert.
Then the other book, when it was used up, as it were, was thrown away?
Mr. Crafard.
That is right.
Mr. Hubert.
Now, you have been through it. What we want to find out is if there is any way that one can tell by looking at the book about the date when any particular entry was made.
Mr. Crafard.
No, sir.
Mr. Hubert.
Are you saying that you skipped around arbitrarily?
Mr. Crafard.
It might be 2 or 3 days before I'd put anything down in this book in a row, maybe. Personally, I couldn't say anything about the dates when I made the entries.
Mr. Hubert.
Suppose that you hadn't used the book for a couple of days and then you found occasion to make an entry. Would you make that entry right following the last one you had made or would you make it at some other page?
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