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.