Mr. RUBY. As it started to trial--I don't know if you realize my reasoning, how I happened to be involved--I was carried away tremendously emotionally, and all the time I tried to ask Mr. Belli, I wanted to get up and say the truth regarding the steps that led me to do what I have got involved in, but since I have a spotty background in the night club business, I should have been the last person to ever want to do something that I had been involved in. In other words, I was carried away tremendously. You want to ask me questions? Chief Justice WARREN. You tell us what you want, and then we will ask you some questions. Mr. RANKIN. I think he ought to be sworn. Mr. RUBY. Am I boring you? Chief Justice WARREN. Go ahead. All right, Mr. Ruby, tell us your story. Mr. RUBY. That particular morning--where is Mr. Moore--I had to go down to the News Building, getting back to this--I don't want to interrupt. Chief Justice WARREN. What morning do you mean? Mr. RUBY. Friday morning, the starting of the tragedy. Mr. Belli evidently did not go into my case thoroughly, circumstantially. If he had gone into it, he wouldn't have tried to vindicate me on an insanity plea to relieve me of all responsibility, because circumstantially everything looks so bad for me. It can happen--it happens to many people who happen to be at the wrong place at the right time. Had Mr. Belli spent more time with me, he would have realized not to try to get me out completely free; at the time we are talking, technically, how attorneys operate. Chief Justice WARREN. I understand. Mr. RUBY. Different things came up, flashed back into my mind, that it dirtied my background, that Mr. Belli and I tell the truth what I went to say that I wanted to get on the stand and tell the truth what happened that morning, he said, "Jack, when they get you on the stand, you are actually speaking of a premeditated crime that you involved yourself in." But I didn't care, because I wanted to tell the truth. He said, "When the prosecution gets you on the stand, they will cut you to ribbons." So naturally, I had to retract, and he fought his way to try to vindicate me out of this particular crime. You follow that? Chief Justice WARREN. Yes; I do indeed. Mr. RUBY. I want you to question me and requestion me on anything you want, plus the fact I do want the tests when they are available. Chief Justice WARREN. Yes. Mr. RUBY. On Friday, the morning parade--this goes back to Thursday night, because it has something to do with it. We were having dinner at the Egyptian Restaurant---- Chief Justice WARREN. Right now, Mr. Ruby, before we get started taking your testimony, would you mind being sworn? (Chief Justice Warren and Jack Ruby stand and both raise their right hand.) Chief Justice WARREN. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give before the Commission will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mr. RUBY. I do.