Mr. Hubert. No; it was an advertisement generally critical of the President. It was a full-page ad which appeared on the day of the President’s visit and at the very bottom of it it was signed by Mr. Bernard Weissman.
Mr. McCurdy. Well, I don’t remember that. I do remember a local grocery store chain—I remember what it was—it was a grocery store chain or something—it was in, I think, the Morning News the next morning—they failed to pull out, after President Kennedy was killed; Saturday morning this came out and it was a picture of a rocking chair and the back of a man and it was, of course, President Kennedy and the little girl was standing there saying something cute and something funny and it would have been very funny had it not been that day, but it was just an oversight and a tragedy.
Mr. Hubert. But in any case, coming back to the Weissman ad, you had no conversation with Ruby about any such thing?
Mr. McCurdy. Oh, no; no.
Mr. Hubert. Did Ruby in the course of his conversation with you or with anyone else you heard advert to the Jewish question or Judaism in any way at all?
Mr. McCurdy. None whatsoever.
Mr. Hubert. Did you hear him make any comments with respect to a pamphlet called “Heroism”?
Mr. McCurdy. No; now, I heard this—the reason this sticks in my mind is because it was by H. L. Hunt, isn’t it, or a Life Line reprint from H. L. Hunt?
Mr. Hubert. Yes.
Mr. McCurdy. Russ Knight, the Weird Beard, mentioned it to me later on that Jack had given him this. He didn’t give me a copy of it, but he apparently passed it to Russ in a very militant manner, apparently, from what Russ had to say.