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?
Mr. SENATOR. No; I don’t know what I did Thursday at all. I don’t know
what I did. Now there is a little twist in the thing right now. After
we saw the paper and the poster, he has just got this twisted around.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Read what he has and then let’s talk about it.
Mr. SENATOR. “They went to the Southland Hotel Coffee Shop and had
coffee, Ruby drinking grapefruit juice. While there Ruby reread the ad
and made comments about it. They left the coffee shop and went to the
main Dallas post office on Ervay where Ruby rang the night bell.” Then
it continues, but the thing is this is reversed.
Mr. GRIFFIN. What you are saying is that you went to the post office
before you had coffee?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes. This is reversed. Now does the reversal mean anything?
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes.
Mr. SENATOR. There is a bunch that you have to reverse in this.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let’s get it straight then as to what actually happened
there.
Mr. SENATOR. You want to reread it from here? It sounds all right
except the reversal.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You read everything that is wrong, everything that is
reversed and so forth and then we will try to put it in proper order.
Mr. SENATOR. The only thing I can do is read the reversal and leave the
other as it is. In other words, when he is doing this he would have to
say this was first and the other was last. I don’t know how to do it.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You read the text that is improper.
Mr. SENATOR. In other words, take these down in a line, is that what
you mean?
Mr. GRIFFIN. From the point that it gets out of order.
Mr. SENATOR. What I just read where it was out of order?
Mr. GRIFFIN. The only two things out of order, let me understand this,
are that you went to the post office before you went to the Southland
Hotel?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And so the discussion you had at the Southland Hotel about
the Weissman ad occurred after you saw the Earl Warren sign and after
you went to the post office?
Mr. SENATOR. That is right. Now do you want some change in here?
Mr. GRIFFIN. No; I think that is clear.
Mr. SENATOR. Let me finish the balance of this. That whole complete
thing is right now.
Mr. GRIFFIN. We have corrected it on the record?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes. When he is quoting about a certain time, if it is an
hour off or a half hour off, is there any difference?