Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
(Joe Tonahill hands paper to Jack Ruby.)
Mr. TONAHILL. Sam ever get your glasses?
Mr. RUBY. Not yet. [Reading.] "This is the girl that"--what?--"that
started Jack off." What is this other word?
Mr. TONAHILL. Culminated?
Mr. RUBY. That is untrue. That is what I wanted to read. (Throwing pad
on table.)
Gentlemen, unless you get me to Washington, you can't get a fair shake
out of me.
If you understand my way of talking, you have got to bring me to
Washington to get the tests.
Do I sound dramatic? Off the beam?
Chief Justice WARREN. No; you are speaking very, very rationally,
and I am really surprised that you can remember as much as you have
remembered up to the present time.
You have given it to us in detail.
Mr. RUBY. Unless you can get me to Washington, and I am not a crackpot,
I have all my senses--I don't want to evade any crime I am guilty of.
But Mr. Moore, have I spoken this way when we have talked?
Mr. MOORE. Yes.
Mr. RUBY. Unless you get me to Washington immediately, I am afraid
after what Mr. Tonahill has written there, which is unfair to me
regarding my testimony here--you all want to hear what he wrote?
Chief Justice WARREN. Yes; you might read it. If you need glasses
again, try mine this time (handing glasses to Mr. Ruby).
Mr. RUBY (putting on glasses). "This is the girl"----
Mr. TONAHILL. "Thing," isn't it?
Mr. RUBY. "This is the thing that started Jack in the shooting."
Mr. TONAHILL. Kathy Kay was talking about Oswald.
Mr. RUBY. You are lying, Joe Tonahill. You are lying.
Mr. TONAHILL. No; I am not.
Mr. RUBY. You are lying, because you know what motivated me. You want
to make it that it was a premeditation.
Mr. TONAHILL. No.
Mr. RUBY. Yes; you do.
Mr. TONAHILL. I don't think there was any premeditation, but you go
ahead and tell it your way. That is what we want you to do. That is
what the Chief Justice wants.
Mr. RUBY. Not when you specify this.
You are Senator Rankin?
Mr. RANKIN. No; I am the general counsel for our Commission, Mr. Ruby.
Mr. TONAHILL. You go on and keep telling it down to Caroline and the
truth.
Chief Justice WARREN. Mr. Ruby, may I suggest this, that if we are to
have any tests, either a lie detector or, as you suggest, maybe a truth
serum--I don't know anything about truth serum, but if we are to have
it, we have to have something to check against, and we would like to
have the rest of your story as you started to tell us, because you are
now getting down to the crucial part of it, and it wouldn't be fair to
you to have this much of it and then not have the rest.
Mr. RUBY. Because the reason why, Joe knows from the time that I told
Attorney Belli, and the story I wanted to tell on the stand, and Mr.
Tonahill knows this isn't the time. The thought never entered my mind.
He knows it.
Mr. TONAHILL. I didn't say the thought entered your mind. I didn't say
that.
Mr. RUBY. You are inferring that.
Mr. TONAHILL. Unconsciously, maybe, is what I meant to say.
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