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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XIV - Page 288« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of George Senator Resumed)

Mr. Senator.
From downtown. I tell you, the best way I can describe it to you is it ran off of--I have got a good memory, haven't I? You are writing that down, too? I can't think of the name of the street. I'll tell you why he went to this barbershop, which I never knew.
Mr. Griffin.
All right.
Mr. Senator.
When the barber cuts his hair, he doesn't like clippers. He won't let them use a clipper. He wants everything by hand, and he could probably drive a barber crazy the way he wants his hair cut. To my knowledge, I don't think he lets a barber shave. You know how the barber shaves you back here?
Mr. Griffin.
He won't let him shave the back of his neck?
Mr. Senator.
You know why? I'll tell you why. Because he grows hair too fast.
Mr. Griffin.
This is what Jack told you, that your hair grows too fast when it is Shaved off?
Mr. Senator.
Yes; you know how some of the hairs will grow in the rear of a person, like mine, I have got a few, the barber will shave them off. He wants them clipped off.
Mr. Griffin.
So he requires the back of his neck to be clipped rather than shaved?
Mr. Senator.
Yes; now, he has got a barber, he has got this barber who knows just what to do with him.
Mr. Griffin.
Was Jack concerned about baldness?
Mr. Senator.
Oh, you should only know.
Mr. Griffin.
Tell us.
Mr. Senator.
He used to drive me crazy.
Mr. Griffin.
Tell us about that.
Mr. Senator.
Well, he would have these treatments. I don't know the name of the place where he got these treatment, and he had the stuff, you know, they'd rub into his head, whatever this medication, I don't know what the stuff was, you know.
I have always seen him use it, whatever it was, and he would rub it into his head. He spent 45 minutes under a shower when he was really working with the stuff, and he would rub it into his head. He was always combing his hair all the time, what little was left, but he couldn't stand being bald.
He used to comment, "How does my hair look; how does my hair looks?" And it was really funny. I used to laugh, but he would get mad when I laughed at him. But he was very, very particular about his hair.
Mr. Griffin.
Had he been this way all the time that you knew him, or was this something that had come on?
Mr. Senator.
No; this is, of come, as long as, you knew, as long as I have known him. Actually, I can't say as long as I have known him, but as long as I have been around him. Oh, man.
Mr. Griffin.
And he actually had some treatments for his hair, didn't he?
Mr. Senator.
Oh, sure, sure.
Mr. Griffin.
Were these called trichology treatment, or something like that?
Mr. Senator.
I don't know the nature of the word they used.
Mr. Griffin.
Did he go to some practitioner?
Mr. Senator.
Yes.
Mr. Griffin.
Who worked on his head?
Mr. Senator.
Yes; he went to somebody, he actually went. And I believe he picked up all his medication from him, too. They came in plastic tubes, a little vial like. I would probably say these tubes would hold approximately maybe about half a pint. He had two different types whatever they were;
one was wash and one was rinse, or what it was.
Mr. Griffin.
And he would use these on his head?
Mr. Senator.
Yes.
Mr. Griffin.
And was this a daily thing that he did?
Mr. Senator.
Oh, yes.
Mr. Griffin.
Did he have any particular ritual, any period of time of the day that he would do this?
Mr. Senator.
No; it was just whatever time, not particularly. It could
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