Chief Justice WARREN. There wouldn't be anything to follow up if you hadn't completed your statement. Mr. RUBY. You said you have the power to do what you want to do, is that correct? Chief Justice WARREN. Exactly. Mr. RUBY. Without any limitations? Chief Justice WARREN. Within the purview of the Executive order which established the Commission. We have the right to take testimony of anyone we want in this whole situation, and we have the right, if we so choose to do it, to verify that statement in any way that we wish to do it. Mr. RUBY. But you don't have a right to take a prisoner back with you when you want to? Chief Justice WARREN. No; we have the power to subpena witnesses to Washington if we want to do it, but we have taken the testimony of 200 or 300 people, I would imagine, here in Dallas without going to Washington. Mr. RUBY. Yes; but those people aren't Jack Ruby. Chief Justice WARREN. No; they weren't. Mr. RUBY. They weren't. Chief Justice WARREN. Now I want you to feel that we are not here to take any advantage of you, because I know that you are in a delicate position, and unless you had indicated not only through your lawyers but also through your sister, who wrote a letter addressed either to me or to Mr. Rankin saying that you wanted to testify before the Commission, unless she had told us that, I wouldn't have bothered you. Because I know you do have this case that is not yet finished, and I wouldn't jeopardize your position by trying to insist that you testify. So I want you to feel that you are free to refrain from testifying any time you wish. But I will also be frank with you and say that I don't think it would be to your advantage to tell us as much as you have and then to stop and not tell us the rest. I can't see what advantage that would give you. Mr. RUBY. The thing is this, that with your power that you have, Chief Justice Warren, and all these gentlemen, too much time has gone by for me to give you any benefit of what I may say now. Chief Justice WARREN. No; that isn't a fact, because until we make our findings for the Commission, and until we make our report on the case, it is not too late. And there are other witnesses we have who are yet to be examined. So from our standpoint, it is timely. We are not handicapped at all by the lateness of your examination. Mr. RUBY. Well, it is too tragic to talk about. Mr. RANKIN. Isn't it true that we waited until very late in our proceedings to talk to Mrs. Kennedy? Chief Justice WARREN. Yes; I might say to you that we didn't take Mrs. Kennedy's statement until day before yesterday. Mr. Rankin and I took her testimony then. So we are not treating you different from any other witness. Mr. RUBY. I tell you, gentlemen, my whole family is in jeopardy. My sisters, as to their lives. Chief Justice WARREN. Yes? Mr. RUBY. Naturally, I am a foregone conclusion. My sisters Eva, Eileen, and Mary, I lost my sisters.