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.
My brothers Sam, Earl, Hyman, and myself naturally—my in-laws, Harold Kaminsky, Marge Ruby, the wife of Earl, and Phyllis, the wife of Sam Ruby, they are in jeopardy of loss of their lives. Yet they have, just because they are blood related to myself—does that sound serious enough to you, Chief Justice Warren?
Chief Justice Warren. Nothing could be more serious, if that is the fact. But your sister, I don't know whether it was your sister Eva or your other sister——