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(Testimony of Earl Ruby Resumed)
Mr. Ruby.
No; I know he graduated from that Shepherd School but when I don't know. As far as I know he graduated from that school and then he went to Marshall High School for a while and then he dropped out.
Mr. Griffin.
Another thing that you mentioned that we were discussing in Exhibit 1, that Mr. Dann had assembled some facts and had discussed Jack's efforts to show that the Jews are good people by himself helping gentiles.
Now I want you to go back and comb your recollection of the period you lived with and worked with Jack for incidents when you can recall of your own knowledge of Jack helping gentiles, or helping people in general, let's not limit it to Jews or gentiles.
Mr. Ruby.
Well, even when we were in business, we had that problem which came up several times, where he would take some of the merchandise, like our pens that we were using, and salt and pepper shakers, and almost every day or two he would take a load of samples. When I asked him he would say, "Well, a nice guy here or there and I gave him one or two, what difference does it make", in the meantime he was giving them out all the time. If anybody wanted one he would just give it to them. But at that time no remark was made as far as I can remember as to why he did it.
Mr. Griffin.
Would you be able to give us names of any people who, you know might have been the beneficiaries of this?
Mr. Ruby.
I wouldn't remember, because I wouldn't know where, but most of this took place or a great part of it anyhow in Dallas, and the names of those I think we could get.
Mr. Griffin.
How about as far as you are concerned, of course, you knew him in Chicago, how about people that you can think of that Jack would have extended these kindnesses to in Chicago?
Mr. Ruby.
I couldn't remember any names because there was no reason to remember this, and this goes back so far. It is 20 years at the earliest.
Mr. Griffin.
Well, you also mentioned that your brother had a great love for President Kennedy. Can you give us some examples of that?
Mr. Ruby.
Well, I didn't realize it, I mean, because I haven't been with him since the Kennedy family and Kennedy himself, to really become involved in politics because he was in Dallas and I was in Chicago and in Detroit. However, I know that when they, I think it was the Dallas Morning News printed that full page, whatever you call that, statement----
Mr. Griffin.
The black bordered advertising?
Mr. Ruby.
Yes; the black bordered advertising which more or less definitely insulted the President, he went to the paper and asked them if they needed the money so bad that they had to print such a horrible thing even though the other paper had turned it down.
And I think you know he was so upset about seeing that sign on the roadside about "Impeach Earl Warren" that in the middle of the night he got his roommate out and got Jerry Crafard, I think his name was, to take a picture of it.
Mr. Griffin.
Do you know why he was upset about it?
Mr. Ruby.
Well, he couldn't see why anything like that could happen. Here is another great man, and he just couldn't understand it.
Mr. Griffin.
Are you surmising this or did----
Mr. Ruby.
Well, I talked to George Senator who was his roommate, he said he was infuriated that a sign like that should be put up. And that was brought out in the trial, of course, and proved.
Then he on the night of the assassination, or rather on the afternoon he immediately closed the club, and when he was asked if he what about the other night club owners because there is another, I think one or two clubs on the same block as his, yes, there are two more, whether they are going to close or not, in a statement he made, he doesn't care if they close or not, he is going to be closed in respect to the President.
Then he went to the services at the synagogue in Dallas.
Mr. Griffin.
Do you know how long he was at that service?
Mr. Ruby.
I don't know how long, but I know that he broke down terribly there.
Mr. Griffin.
Did you talk to anybody who----
Mr. Ruby.
I heard it from the Rabbi who was there, that he was--of course, most of the people there were broken up but he was most unusual because he was
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