checks,1164 testified that he first recalled that Oswald resembled the visitor he saw at the Carousel Club while watching a television showing on Sunday morning, November 24, of the shooting by Ruby.1165 At that time Litchfield was playing poker with three friends, and he testified that he promptly informed them of the re semblance he observed.1166 However, none of the three poker companions remembered Litchfield's making such a remark; and two added that Litchfield's statements were often untrustworthy.1167

With regard to all of the persons who claimed to have seen Ruby and Oswald together, it is significant that none had particular reason to pay close attention to either man, that substantial periods of time elapsed before the events they assertedly witnessed became meaningful, and that, unlike the eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen Oswald on November 22, none reported their observations soon after Oswald was arrested. In the course of its investigation, the Commission has encountered numerous dear mistakes of identification. For example, at least four persons, other than Crafard, are known to have been mistaken for Oswald.1168 Other persons have been misidentified as Jack Ruby.1169 Under all the available evidence there is no substantial likelihood that the person the various witnesses claimed to have seen with Ruby was in fact Oswald.

In addition to probing the reported evidence that Ruby and Oswald had been seen together, the Commission has examined other circumstances for signs that the two men were acquainted. From the time Oswald returned from Mexico, both he and Jack Ruby lived in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, slightly more than a mile apart. Numerous neighbors of both Oswald and Ruby were interviewed, and none knew of any association between the two.1170 Oswald's work began at 8 each weekday morning and terminated at 4:45 each afternoon.1171 Jack Ruby usually remained in his apartment until past 9 a.m. each day.1172 Although both men worked in downtown Dallas, they normally traveled to their places of employment by different routes. Ruby owned an automobile, and the shortest route downtown from his home was via a freeway adjacent to his apartment.1173 Oswald did not own a car and had, at best, a rudimentary ability to drive.1174 From his roominghouses on North Beckley Avenue and on Marsalis Street, he normally took public transportation which did not bring him within six blocks of either Ruby's apartment or his downtown nightclub, nor did Oswald's route from the bus stop to home or work bring him near Ruby's home or business.1175 Persons at Oswald's roominghouse testified that he regularly came home promptly after work and remained in his room.1176 While in Dallas, he is not known to have visited any nightclub.1177 Ruby was generally at the Carousel Club from 9 o'clock each evening until after 1 a.m.1178 In a few instances, Ruby and Oswald patronized the same stores, but no indication has been found that they ever met at such stores.1179 Ruby at one time frequented a restaurant where Oswald occasionally ate breakfast, but the times of their patronage were widely separated and restaurant employees knew of no acquaintance between Ruby and Oswald. 1180