Mr. Hallmark. Yes; it did, although I don’t recall having anything that I wanted to talk to him about.
Mr. Hubert. But you mentioned a moment ago that you refrained deliberately from your normal attitude with him?
Mr. Hallmark. Yes.
Mr. Hubert. Because of the strangeness of his attitude?
Mr. Hallmark. Yes; I didn’t want to impose myself on his thoughts whatever they were.
Mr. Hubert. Did he indicate that he was worried about the effect of the assassination of President Kennedy on his own business affairs?
Mr. Hallmark. No; not except for the fact that he closed both his clubs. He had closed them the night prior and they were to be closed that night and the next, but he said nothing about the money it would cost him to close. He did ask me about the other—the neighboring places of business like his own. He asked me if I knew whether they would be open or not, and, of course, I told him that I did not know, and so he stated that they wouldn’t have nerve enough to open after they had seen his ad. At the time I had not seen his ad. I looked at it later, and he had run an ad in the paper which stated that his clubs would be closed. It was a good-sized ad for that type place.
Mr. Hubert. Well, did he comment about the effect of the assassination on his future business rather than on the closing for the 3 days?
Mr. Hallmark. No; he made no comment about that.
Mr. Hubert. Did he make any comment concerning his worry that for some reason the Jews might be implicated in the killing of the President on account of the Weissman ad?