Mrs. Kaminsky.

fasting on the high holidays. When we were younger, we did that more religiously than we do now.

Mr. Griffin.

Were there any practices maintained in the home?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Well, Friday was, more or less, of the holiday or our Sabbath, you know, Friday evenings, Saturday; and naturally, if we had jobs and had to work on a Saturday, we did, although orthodox people don't.

Mr. Griffin.

That's right. You didn't observe the Sabbath as the Orthodox Jews do?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

No, no.

Mr. Griffin.

Did your mother maintain two sets of dishes?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Not--no; I don't remember that. We had many sets, pieces of them.

Mr. Griffin.

Well, did your observance of the religious practices go beyond observing the high holidays?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Well, Friday was a special dinner as a rule. It was a little more elaborate, shall I say, and we did, in a sense, restrict ourselves to Saturday not doing housework.

Mr. Griffin.

Yes.

Mrs. Kaminsky.

You know, you are not supposed to do that.

Mr. Griffin.

How about--did you observe any of the dietary laws at all in the home?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Yes.

Mr. Griffin.

Which ones?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Well, we didn't mix dairy foods with meat foods. Now, we would never serve milk while having meat on the table, you know, never do that.

Mr. Griffin.

Yes; but that is--that is a different thing from keeping different sets of dishes.

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Well, in a sense, it is the same thing because one set of dishes would be used for dairy food and one set for meat.

Mr. Griffin.

But did your mother do that? Did your mother observe that?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

You know, I don't remember.

Mr. Griffin.

Yes.

Mrs. Kaminsky.

I know, when I was old enough to notice, I didn't notice any separate dishes.

Mr. Griffin.

Yes. Did your mother--did your mother know how to read and write?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

She could sign her name but she couldn't read or write.

Mr. Griffin.

Are you sure she could sign her name?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Yes; I seem to remember her having done that.

Mr. Griffin.

To what extent did she speak English?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Not too much.

Mr. Griffin.

All right. Were you children all able to speak in Yiddish?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Yes.

Mr. Griffin.

How about your father; did he speak English?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Well, better than my mother but with a definite accent. We spoke a great deal in Jewish to him, too.

Mr. Griffin.

Is there anything else that you can think of that you want to tell us that might be useful to the Commission?

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Well, I wrote you that letter about Mrs. Tice. Was that ever checked out?

Mr. Griffin.

Yes; we have interviewed her and I am going to take her testimony tomorrow down in Dallas.

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Oh, are you?

Mr. Griffin.

Yes.

Mrs. Kaminsky.

And about this Rufus Fayette, did you see that letter?

Mr. Griffin.

I don't know that I saw that.

Mrs. Kaminsky.

Well now, the night before, the Thursday night, before the Friday that Officer Dean's testimony was so damaging, he had been released from the county jail in Dallas, I believe, that same day.

Mr. Griffin.

Fayette?