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Warren Commission Hearings: Vol. XIV - Page 323« Previous | Next »

(Testimony of George Senator Resumed)

Mr. Senator.
I still ain't sure if I did or didn't mind you.
Mr. Griffin.
Because the thing that I want to explore here is whether----
Mr. Senator.
But I knew about' the sandwiches the next day because I saw them.
Mr. Griffin.
You knew about the sandwiches, right?
Mr. Senator.
Yes.
Mr. Griffin.
But the thing I am trying to direct your attention at is whether you knew about Jack's visit to the police station and I am suggesting to you that if you had known on the 23d or the 24th about Jack's visit to the police station, you would have had some further conversation with Jack. If Jack had said, or if I had said to you, "George, I just was down to the police station and I took some sandwiches down there" on this particular day, why you would have said to me, "Did you see Oswald? What was going on? What kind of investigation?" That visit to the police station would have been a more important thing than the sandwiches. So that if Jack really told you this on Saturday, the 23d, I am suggesting that there might be some further conversation that you and he had, because you would ask him questions about what he saw, out of curiosity, and you don't seem. to recall any such conversation.
Mr. Senator.
It is not fresh in my mind right now. I am inclined to think that he did, but if I had to say 100 percent I really can't answer you now. I just don't remember now. I was sort of under the impression that I was told. It is hazy in my mind. I can't say yes or no. I am not going to say no and I am not going to say yes that he did or didn't.
Mr. Griffin.
You don't have any clear recollection?
Mr. Senator.
No.
Mr. Griffin.
Of any conversation about his being down at the police station?
Mr. Senator.
No; I don't remember, so in other words this is a thing I would have to leave in question. Here is a question that I am not even sure of. "Senator said that Ruby was very hot about this article and commented that Weissman did not spell his name as a Jew but if he were a Jew he should be ashamed of himself."
Mr. Griffin.
What is your feeling about that now.
Mr. Senator.
I don't" ever remember telling him that. Now I don't say that I did or didn't, but I don't know why I had the reason to say that he didn't spell his name as a Jew. Wait a minute "that he did not spell his name as a Jew" I just can't figure why I would say that because Bernard Weissman to me sounds Jewish no matter how I look at the name. This is the part I don't understand on this.
Mr. Griffin.
Is it your recollection that Jack was hot under the collar about this ad?
Mr. Senator.
Oh, yes; oh, yes. This I remember he was.
Mr. Griffin.
You found that ad independently of Jack as I understand it.
Mr. Senator.
I found that ad Thursday night when I bought the paper.
Mr. Griffin.
Thursday before the President arrived?
Mr. Senator.
Or was it Friday? Thursday or Friday. I don't know.
Mr. Griffin.
Something makes you think it was Thursday night?
Mr. Senator.
Maybe, I don't know.
Mr. Griffin.
What is that that makes you think that?
Mr. Senator.
Wait a minute. I may have bought this paper Thursday night because it come out in the paper the day the President arrived when I read it. Or did it come out Friday? I don't remember. Was it Friday?
Mr. Griffin.
Of course, I don't know.
Mr. Senator.
It was a Friday's paper.
Mr. Griffin.
And the Friday morning news hits the newsstands on Thursday night, does it not?
Mr. Senator.
That is right.
Mr. Griffin.
Now are you in the habit of picking up a morning newspaper the night before?
Mr. Senator.
It all depends the hour. If I am out at that hour and if the paper is out at that hour.
Mr. Griffin.
Do you recall what you did the night before the President came to Dallas?
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