Mr. Hubert. But didn’t it cross your mind that there might be a group who would want to get rid of you for some reason or other?
Mr. Senator. This didn’t enter my mind that it was any group or anything of this nature here. All I knew is I had a fear. I don’t know who, but something. I was just afraid, that is all.
Mr. Hubert. Did you arm yourself in anyway?
Mr. Senator. No; I never armed myself in my life. The only gun I ever had is when they had me overseas. That is the only time I ever had a gun. I never carried a knife or a gun in my life.
Mr. Hubert. What did you do during these several days when you were in effect afraid? Did you move out in the open or did you stay——
Mr. Senator. I was afraid of the nighttime, not the daytime. In other words, I wanted—I didn’t want to be in an isolated place anywhere. It is not that I wasn’t out at night or daytime, which I was, but I didn’t want to be in an isolated place. In other words, I wouldn’t want to be walking down a lonely street or something like that because that would scare the life out of me. But around groups or something like that, I didn’t fear it that much. Now what I feared I don’t know, but it was just a natural thing I feel any individual would fear.
Mr. Hubert. Did you communicate that fear to Jim Martin?
Mr. Senator. Not only to him but to many of my friends. I said, “I’m just afraid.”
Mr. Hubert. It was for that reason that several of them put you up?
Mr. Senator. That is right. I told them I was afraid. They said “What are you afraid of?” You know people say, “What are you afraid of?” I said, “I’m just scared, that is all”—and who wouldn’t be?