Mr. GRIFFIN. Did Belli in his letter to you make any reference to your newspaper article? Mr. KANTOR. No; he did not. Mr. GRIFFIN. I take it Ruby didn’t make any reference to it to you in his letter? Mr. KANTOR. No; he did not, and one of the factors prompting my letter to him was this interview with the two FBI agents here in Washington, because one of them had told me that the FBI talked to Ruby in his jail cell and he had denied being in the hospital on the afternoon of November 22d. This is really what I was angling for, although I didn’t want to write that question directly to Jack Ruby. Mr. HUBERT. Is it not a fact that in the story that you had seen Jack at the Parkland Hospital, had been made public before you wrote to Jack Ruby, I think you said on February---- Mr. KANTOR. Late in January. Mr. HUBERT. Late in January? Mr. KANTOR. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. That story had been in the press for some considerable time, isn’t that correct? Mr. KANTOR. It appeared in the press the day after Ruby killed Oswald. Mr. HUBERT. All right. I think the record should show that Exhibit No. 8 consists of 4 pages, numbered in sequence 163 through 167. Mr. GRIFFIN. I want to ask you at least one question in connection with these interviews generally. Did the FBI agent who originally interviewed you on December 3 tell you how he happened to come to interview you? Mr. KANTOR. He had learned about my statement of Ruby being in the hospital through reading my story or through hearing about the story. Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, is this something that he told you or is this an inference that you have drawn? Mr. KANTOR. No; he told me that. I know the agent in question, Vince Drain. Mr. GRIFFIN. I believe you told us yesterday that you were the only Scripps-Howard reporter at Parkland Hospital at the time that you saw Ruby and made the phone calls. Mr. KANTOR. Yes. Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, how many other Scripps-Howard reporters were there with the White House entourage that originally went down to Dallas? Mr. KANTOR. There was none besides myself. Mr. GRIFFIN. How many Scripps-Howard reporters who reported back to the Washington office ultimately were in Dallas on the 22d, 23d, and 24th? Mr. KANTOR. There was none besides myself. Mr. GRIFFIN. So the only--you were the only representative of the Scripps-Howard chain as an entity? Mr. KANTOR. Yes. Mr. GRIFFIN. And any other reporters who may have been connected with Scripps-Howard there were from newspapers affiliated with the Scripps-Howard chain? Mr. KANTOR. Yes; that is right. Yes. Mr. GRIFFIN. What kind of coverage or distribution were the stories that you wrote on the 22d and 23d given by the Scripps-Howard chain? Mr. KANTOR. They were widely used, I believe; virtually every paper in the chain used the stories. Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you have any questions, Mr. Hubert? Mr. HUBERT. No. Mr. GRIFFIN. I have none. Do you have anything further that you would want to say? Mr. KANTOR. Nothing further.