Mr. Rankin. Can you tell us what you said?
Congressman Ford. First, tell us when this took place.
Mr. Rankin. How soon after the shooting occurred?
Mr. Ruby. Well, Ray Hall was the first one that interrogated me. Wanted to know my whole background.
Mr. Rankin. Can you tell us how soon it was? Within a few minutes after the shooting?
Mr. Ruby. No; I waited in a little room there somewhere upstairs in—I don't know what floor it was. I don't recall.
Mr. Rankin. Where did this occur, on the third floor?
Mr. Ruby. One of those floors. I don't know whether it was the third or second. If you are up on an elevator——
Mr. Rankin. Can you give us any idea of the time after the shooting?
Mr. Ruby. I spent an hour with Mr. Hall, Ray Hall. And I was very much, I was very much broken up emotionally, and I constantly repeated that I didn't want Mrs. Kennedy to come back to trial, and those were my words, constantly repeated to Mr. Hall.