Mr. Griffin. What did he say to you?
Mrs. Grant. He said, “Do you have the private number of KLIF?” I thought he was nuts. You want to know why? I never had any reason to call over there for a private number and little bit I know they had any.
Mr. Griffin. He called and said he wanted to know the number of whom?
Mrs. Grant. Of Russ Knight. And why did he ask me the number. I hadn’t had Russ Knight’s number in the last 2 years, because he played a record of Joe Johnson, and I gave it to Russ Knight. But I couldn’t think in—I couldn’t think of his last name, and I didn’t think we were going to find out.
To make a long story short, he said he was in Phil’s, and I don’t know if he was in Phil’s on the highway or the one in the neighborhood. The first thing he wanted to know is how I felt, because I was pretty bad. And I asked him if he had gone to the synagogue and he said, “Yes.” He said, “What are you doing?” Truthfully, I was watching and not hearing, but it didn’t mean a thing any more, because I was already—he said he was going to the station, and this is something I want to get very clear. I didn’t give a damn if he went to the radio station or police station. I don’t know what idea, because he knows somebody everywhere he goes, they know him. I assumed he had friends there. And he asked me if I remembered Russ’ name? At the time I didn’t even remember who he was talking about. He said, “The weird beard.” I don’t know who he was talking about, and it didn’t make any difference to me. This was late. He said after he had been to the synagogue, it wasn’t before 10:30—it could have been around midnight—there was no conception of time any more for me that following evening.
Now, the next day, he called me sometime in the afternoon. He came over about 3:40. He says, “I went to a mailbox.” He said that in the middle of the night he took pictures, and he told me a bunch of stories. And in his mind, Bernard Weissman was a gentile using a Jewish name to implicate the Jews again and all this business. I said, “He is probably some Commie.” And while in my home, and this I heard, he called Stanley Kaufman. And I don’t know what went on on the other side, and he is telling him this, he says, “He is out of town, but I am going to take this to the FBI.” And I asked him during that time, I said, “What are you going to do with it?”
There were a lot of things that happened Friday and Saturday. I am not smart about politics or the phrases they use always, whether they are right or wrong. He said, “I got a scoop for Gordon.” And I said, “What are you going to do with it?” And he said, “I am going to take it Monday to give it to the FBI.” And I thought he said it said, “Impeach Earl Warren.”
Mr. Griffin. Did he know who Earl Warren was?
Mrs. Grant. Oh, yes; he is quite familiar with the position he holds in the United States.
Mr. Griffin. Did he know at that time who he was?