Mr. JENNER. Please identify him.
Mr. WEISSMAN. Ken Glazbrook.
Mr. JENNER. Yes; who was he?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Ken is what you might call a world traveler. This is a
guy--he is a political science--he has a masters in political science
from UCLA, I believe. And we had hoped to bring him in as our political
analyst.
Mr. JENNER. Had you met him in the service?
Mr. WEISSMAN. In Germany; yes. Larrie met him at one time originally.
Ken was passing through Munich, and he had stopped off at our favorite
bar, and gotten into a discussion with Larrie. And he had been through
Munich after that two or three times, at one occasion which I met him.
And he had also said, "I will meet you in Dallas."
But he came and he went. He stayed with Bill and I for a couple of days
at our apartment, because he was on his way home to California. From
what I understand now, he is back in Europe. He could not take it here.
Mr. JENNER. I am still accounting for Sunday. You went to the post
office box, you think. You went to the bus station to pick up----
Mr. WEISSMAN. I am not sure whether this was--I am pretty sure it was
Friday night we picked him up at the bus station. It might have been
Saturday night. But I am more sure in my mind--my inclination goes more
toward Friday night.
Mr. JENNER. You saw him on Sunday?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Ken?
Mr. JENNER. Did you see this man on Sunday?
Mr. WEISSMAN. He was in the apartment with us.
Mr. JENNER. He came to stay with you?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes; he brought a pitcher and a knapsack.
Mr. JENNER. Did he go down to the post office box with you?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. And he returned to your apartment?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. What did you do then?
Mr. WEISSMAN. We went through the letters. We were going pro and con,
and reading them. We were very pleased at first because a lot of it
was favorable, and then we got to the later postmarks, and those were
terrible. We just discussed the letters for a while. And a girl came
over. What was her name? Lynn something--I don't know her last name.
And she sat around and talked for a while. We discussed the letters
with her. Then Larrie came over that afternoon also. He was wearing a
turtle-neck sweater. And we stayed around for a few hours. Then Larrie
and Lynn took off to the Ducharme Club. And thereafter I don't know
what happened to them. I did not hear from them at all. And--that is
about it for Sunday.
Mr. JENNER. When did you first hear about the Ruby-Oswald incident?
Mr. WEISSMAN. I think Larrie called me up. Yes, he was watching
television at the Ducharme Club, I believe. I believe this was the
occasion. I think he was with Lynn. And he telephoned me at the
apartment. And that was the story.
Mr. JENNER. You have testified you were never in the Carousel Club.
Mr. WEISSMAN. Never.
Mr. JENNER. What if any acquaintance did you have with Officer Tippit?
Mr. WEISSMAN. None.
Mr. JENNER. What if any acquaintance did any of your associates have to
your knowledge with Officer Tippit?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Absolutely none.
Mr. JENNER. Had you ever heard of the name Officer Tippit?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Never.
Mr. JENNER. Up to or any time during the day of November 22, 1963?
Mr. WEISSMAN. None at all. The first I ever heard of this name was
after Oswald shot him, and it came over the TV, that a policeman had
been shot near a movie theater. That was the first I had heard that
name.
Mr. JENNER. Do you know whether any of your associates, Schmidt or
Burley or Jones, or any persons you have mentioned, knew Officer Tippit?
Mr. WEISSMAN. To the best of my knowledge, no.
Mr. JENNER. Did anything occur during all the time you were in Dallas
to lead you to believe any of these people, including Mr. Grinnan, for
example, had had any connection with or association or knowledge of or
acquaintance with Tippit?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Not as far as I know. I don't know too much about Joe
Grinnan.
Mr. JENNER. Did you at anytime while you were in Dallas ever have a
meeting with or sit in the Carousel Club with Officer Tippit?
Mr. WEISSMAN. No.
Mr. JENNER. Do you know or do you have any information as to whether
any of the associates you have mentioned ever had a meeting with
Officer Tippit in the Carousel Club?
Mr. WEISSMAN. None whatsoever.
Mr. JENNER. Or whether or not, irrespective of whether it was a formal
meeting or even an informal one, that they were with Officer Tippit at
anytime in the Carousel Club.
Mr. WEISSMAN. Absolutely not.
Mr. JENNER. And you were never in the Carousel Club at all; and you
never were with Officer Tippit.
Mr. WEISSMAN. Right.
Mr. JENNER. Any place.
Mr. WEISSMAN. Any place.
Mr. JENNER. Mr. Weissman, it has been asserted that a meeting took
place on November 14, 1963, in the Carousel Club between Officer Tippit
and yourself--and I take it from your testimony that you vigorously
deny that that ever took place.
Mr. WEISSMAN. Very definitely. May I say something in relation to this?
Mr. JENNER. Is it pertinent to this?
Mr. WEISSMAN. I believe so. I believe that this is a statement made
by Mark Lane, who claimed to be attorney for the deceased Oswald. It
was originally made at the Town Hall in New York, and later that same
evening, I do not recall the date exactly, on a radio program Contact
WINS New York, at about midnight of that same day.
At that time I telephoned the radio station and spoke to Mark Lane.
This is the first I had heard of the allegation at all.
Mr. JENNER. You telephoned the radio station?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Right.
Mr. JENNER. And you asked for Mr. Lane.
Mr. WEISSMAN. That's right.
Mr. JENNER. Did the man for whom you asked come to the phone?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Yes; he did.
Mr. JENNER. Had you known Mr. Lane prior to this time?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Never heard of him before.
Mr. JENNER. You had never spoken to him?
Mr. WEISSMAN. Never.
Mr. JENNER. Did you ask--when there was an answer on the phone, did you
ask who it was that was on the phone?