Mr. Wade.

Yes. They asked a bunch of questions there. I think if you get a record of my interview that you will find that any of the evidence----

Mr. Dulles.

Which interview is that?

Mr. Wade.

With the press, midnight, radio, television, and everything else. I think if you will get a copy of that you will find they asked me lots of questions about fingerprints and evidence. I refused to answer them because I said it was evidence in the case. The only thing that I told them that you might get the impression was evidence but is really not evidence, I told them that the man's wife said the man had a gun or something to that effect. The reason, maybe good or bad, but that isn't admissible in Texas. You see a wife can't testify. It is not evidence, but it is evidence but it is inadmissible evidence actually is what it was. So I think if you find anything in that interview that deals with the evidence you are going to feel that it dealt only with that piece of testimony of Marina Oswald, which someone had told me she said about the gun was missing from the house, which I think later was corroborated.

Mr. Rankin.

At that time, had you filed on the assassination?

Mr. Wade.

Yes, sir; we had filed upstairs prior to this. He had been filed on for murder with malice.

Mr. Rankin.

But he hadn't been brought before the justice of the peace or magistrate yet on that complaint, had he?

Mr. Wade.

The justice of the peace was there in the office and took it in the homicide. Oswald was in homicide, also, but he is in a separate office. Like I told you, I never did see Oswald except in that lineup downstairs. That was the first time I had seen him.

Mr. Rankin.

Was that when you. told the justice of the peace that he ought to have him before him to tell him his rights and so forth?

Mr. Wade.

Yes; it was some time during that hour. this went on for about an hour down there, everything.
Well, during that interview somebody said, and the thing--Oswald belonged to, was he a Communist, something generally to that effect.

Mr. Rankin.

They asked you that?

Mr. Wade.

I was asked that. And I said, well, now, I don't know about that but they found some literature, I understand, some literature dealing with Free Cuba Movement. Following this--and so I looked up and Jack Ruby is in the' audience and he said, no, it is the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Well, he corrected me, you see, to show you why I got attracted to his attention, why
someone in the audience would speak up and answer a question.

Mr. Dulles.

You hadn't known him before?

Mr. Wade.

I had never known him, to my knowledge. He is a man about town, and I had seen him before, because when I saw him in there, and I actually thought he was a part of the press corps at the time.

Mr. Rankin.

Were any of your assistants or people working for you there at that showup?

Mr. Wade.

I don't believe there were any of them there now. If there is any of them, it is Alexander, because he is the only one down there, but I think he is still up in homicide.
I will go further on that, some of my assistants know him, but he was in my office 2 days before this with a hot check or something where he was trying to collect a hot check or pay someone. I think he was trying to pay someone else's hot check off, I don't know what it was, I didn't see him. He talked to my check section. I found this out later.

Mr. Rankin.

By "he" you mean----

Mr. Wade.

Ruby, Jack Ruby.

Mr. Rankin.

Yes.

Mr. Wade.

He was in another office of mine, since this all came out, he was in there with a bunch of the police, we were trying a case on pornography, some of my assistants were, and my assistant came in his office during the noon hour after coming from the court, this was 2 or 3 days before the assassination and Ruby was sitting there in his office with five or six Dallas police officers. In fact, he was sitting in my assistant's desk and he started to sit down and asked who he was and the officer said, "Well, that is Jacky Ruby who runs the Carousel Club," so he had been down there.