Mr. Kaufman. No; he did not say. He just asked me if I had seen the sign. I drive by that place every day and never noticed it, but he had asked me whether I had seen the sign and told me he had taken some pictures but did not indicate what he was going to do with them.
Mr. Hubert. All right; will you go on then?
Mr. Kaufman. Now, as far as the rest—“Kaufman stated that Ruby wanted to know who Weissman was and how he could get in touch with him”—as I say, he did want to know the means or methods of how a person could locate him. As I say, I did indicate that he might consider looking at the city directory.
Mr. Hubert. All right.
Mr. Kaufman. Now, they go on, “and if Mr. Freedman of the Anti-Defamation League could furnish him any information as to the whereabouts of Bernard Weissman.” Now, this is, I think, an inaccurate statement. Now, during the course of our conversation with the agents, we told them——
Mr. Hubert. When you say “we,” who is that?
Mr. Kaufman. Me—I should say—I told them that I had been active with B’nai B’rith and that one of our children, so to speak, is the Anti-Defamation League, and that I had been called, when my name was mentioned, by people all over the country who knew me—I had calls from Peoria, Ill. and from New York—regarding the Rubenstein being invoked into this and whether it was a matter of antisemitism. I had been called by Mr. Ted Freedman of the Houston, Tex., Anti-Defamation League, who came to see me to see whether or not antisemitism had been invoked into this and whether I personally felt that the name Rubenstein had been injected here for prejudicial purposes, and I think that someone is confused in the reporting of this.
I don’t even recall Jack and I talking about the Anti-Defamation League. I know that Jack was not a member of B’nai B’rith, not that he didn’t want to be or not that they wouldn’t have had him, I don’t think he had the money to join. I’m sure he would have liked to have belonged to a lot of things that he was not able to afford, and it’s not that expensive an operation, but notwithstanding that, I think that there is some confusion in this report as to conversations going on between Jack and myself. Actually, when I was on the witness stand, Mr. Alexander interrogated me about this very point and I just couldn’t imagine what the report said and he had the report in his hand, and he asked me whether or not Jack didn’t want to know or ask me how to get in touch with the Anti-Defamation League. I don’t remember the exact question, but this is not correct.
Mr. Hubert. In other words, what you are saying is that you don’t recall that you spoke to Jack about that?
Mr. Kaufman. About the Anti-Defamation League, although I do say I talked to the agents about it, but not in connection with a conversation with Jack. I do admit that the agents and I, in talking about that, they were very kind and they stayed there and they related to me how they had Jewish agents in the FBI, Bob Strauss of Dallas had been an agent, and I mean that they spent a lot of time discussing this matter with me, and I’m sure they had a lot of things on their mind, Mr. Hubert, and they were not sitting down taking notes although I think they did take names down maybe on the back of an envelope or a scratch pad, but I mean, they didn’t sit down such as the reporter is doing here this morning and take notes of the things that we were saying. In other words, I don’t believe that it’s that significant, but I do want the record to be correct, because I don’t think that Jack Ruby and I ever discussed the Anti-Defamation League. That’s the point I’m trying to make.