Mr. Ruby.

COURT REPORTER. I didn't quite hear your answer to Mr. Alexander's question, "Did any of these calls have any connection with the shooting of Oswald?"

Mr. Ruby.

Oh, you're taking down what I'm saying? I didn't know you were taking that down.

Mr. Specter.

Yes; we're taking everything down.

Mr. Ruby.

Oh--well, give me the question again.
COURT REPORTER. This was when Mr. Alexander asked you, "Did any of these calls have any connection with the shooting of Oswald?" and what was your answer to that question?

Mr. Ruby.

No.
COURT REPORTER. Thank you.

Mr. Ruby.

Are you putting down the questions I've been asking myself?
COURT REPORTER. Yes; everything you've been saying.

Mr. Ruby.

Voluntarily---correct?
COURT REPORTER. Oh, yes. Just like you say them.

Mr. Ruby.

Okay.

Mr. Specter.

We are putting it down in the record, Mr. Ruby, just like you're saying it.
Odell, can you bring me up-to-date, I've been out of the room.
COURT REPORTER. Mr. Alexander has been asking him certain questions that might be asked about----

Mr. Ruby.

About that Havana, Cuba trip.
COURT REPORTER. And had he been to Mexico, and had he been in politics, and Mr. Alexander said to his knowledge he had not been interested in politics, and the purpose of his trip to Cuba, whether it was for business or pleasure, and I believe that is what was covered.

Mr. Ruby.

The most important question--you haven't asked me yet--why did I shoot Oswald?

Mr. Alexander.

Jack, they can't ask that kind of question for this machine. They can only ask you--was it for a certain purpose. It has to be a "Yes" or "No" answer.

Mr. Ruby.

The point is--if I was carried away emotionally, and because I felt that, it sounds so unbelievable. Why shouldn't I be asked a question--why--what motivated me to do it?

Mr. Specter.

Mr. Ruby, answer now the question, "Why did you shoot Oswald?" and then we will turn that around into a question to ask you for a "Yes" or "No" answer.

Mr. Ruby.

At the particular moment, after watching television all that----

Mr. Fowler.

Jack, let me interject right now, again, as your attorney--I advise you not to answer this question.

Mr. Ruby.

Clayton, I'm sorry, I've got to answer it. I've got to, because, believe me, it means an awful lot to me. I didn't want--I felt so carried away--that at that particular time of the great tragedy, I felt somehow in my little bit of a way I could save Mrs. Kennedy the ordeal of coming back for trial here.

Mr. Specter.

All right, fine, Mr. Ruby. That's the same answer to that general question that you gave when the Commission heard your testimony, and we shall phrase that in an appropriate question for the polygraph examination. Now, will you proceed, Mr. Herndon, with our next series, please?

Mr. Herndon.

Do you want me to rehearse the ones that are prepared?

Mr. Specter.

Yes; just our prepared series, and we will take these in a sequence and we will cover everything else later.

Mr. Herndon.

All right, I'll go over these for you again, Mr. Ruby, so that You understand the intent of the question and what it means.
"Did you get a Wall Street Journal at Southwestern Drug Store during the week before the assassination?"

Mr. Ruby.

No.

Mr. Herndon.

"Was the Wall Street Journal addressed to a Mr. Bradshaw?"

Mr. Ruby.

I don't know.

Mr. Herndon.

Well, that one, we're going to have to rephrase. "Do you know if the Wall Street Journal was addressed to Mr. Bradshaw?"