(Testimony of Hyman Rubenstein)
Mr. Rubenstein.
gave you gentlemen some good examples. Yes; you didn't ask me what led up to this thing, how come?
Mr. Griffin.
That is what I am asking you now.
Mr. Rubenstein.
Did you know he went out at 3 o'clock in the morning with George Senator and Larry Crafard, the kid that watched the nightclub, at nighttime and took tickets for Jack, Jack charged $2 a ticket to get into his club. It was no bums' hangout. It was a classy joint. So Larry used to take the tickets and also sleep there at nighttime. Jack got up to go at 3 o'clock in the morning one time, and this was told to me by both, George Senator and Larry, they went out and they took a picture of a great big billboard, "Impeach Earl Warren," the pictures and camera were in the car that Jack was going to use as evidence when the city policemen confiscated his car, you can make a note of this, they took the camera, they took the pictures, they took his adding machine, and they took his spare tire. What a bunch of characters down there.
Mr. Griffin.
What has become of that?
Mr. Rubenstein.
We would like to know. They took his diamond ring, they took a very good wristwatch.
Mr. Griffin.
Have you asked for that?
Mr. Rubenstein.
And his blue suit he wore when he shot Oswald, we would like to have that all back, and his gun.
Mr. Griffin.
Have you asked for it?
Mr. Rubenstein.
I think they have but they haven't had any success. If Jack cannot have the gun, then we would like to submit it to the Smithsonian Institution or in his library.
Mr. Griffin.
Kennedy's Library?
Mr. Rubenstein.
That is right. Because Jack bought the gun legitimately in a Dallas store under his name. And also when he walked into that newspaper office, and there was a big black border around, a full page ad signed by somebody by the name of Weissman, Jack didn't like that.
Mr. Griffin.
When did you hear about that?
Mr. Rubenstein.
Eva told me this. Eva says, "You know, Jack came here one day showing me all this thing and I couldn't believe it."
You know, when a person reads a paper you don't always pay attention. It was addressed not to the President of the United States. I understand the ad was addressed to Mr. Kennedy with grievances, signed by the committee. With a post office and box number in Dallas, with a black border around a full-page ad. When Jack was changing the ad of his closing dates of the club the minute the President got shot in the newspapers, he got ahold of someone in the newspaper office, as I understand it, and that man will have to testify, and Jack said to him, "Do you have to accept an ad like this? Is business that bad? The other newspapers in town didn't take it." Then he went over Saturday morning to the post office and got ahold of one of the clerks and he says, "Can you tell me who belongs to this post office box number," and the clerk says, "We can't tell you that."
Mr. GRIFFIN. Hyman, what do you think is the significance of Jack's concern with the ad and with the "Impeach Earl Warren" sign?
Mr. Rubenstein.
And the ad calling Mr. Kennedy instead of "Mr. President," with the grievance committee to--
Mr. Griffin.
What do you think that signifies about Jack's concern?
Mr. Rubenstein.
He didn't like the signature for one which was a Jewish name. And he thought it was another organization disgracing the Jews.
Mr. Griffin.
How do you get that impression that that was his--how do you get that impression?
Mr. Rubenstein.
That is the way it would hit me. Why would an organization like this put down the name Weissman and put down all these grievances in the newspapers with a black border around it and then---oh, when he couldn't find--when Jack couldn't find--the name of the owner of the post office box so he asked the clerk, "Does this ad belong to Oswald," and the clerk says, "I can't answer you that, either." He thought there was a connection between this and Oswald, and Oswald was using a phoney name in the ad.
Mr. Griffin.
Has Jack told you any of that?
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