Mr. Wade. Yes; it was some time during that hour, this went on for about an hour down there, everything.
Well, during that interview somebody said, and the thing—Oswald belonged to, was he a Communist, something generally to that effect.
Mr. Rankin. They asked you that?
Mr. Wade. I was asked that. And I said, well, now, I don't know about that but they found some literature, I understand, some literature dealing with Free Cuba Movement. Following this—and so I looked up and Jack Ruby is in the audience and he said, no, it is the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Well, he corrected me, you see, to show you why I got attracted to his attention, why someone in the audience would speak up and answer a question.
Mr. Dulles. You hadn't known him before?
Mr. Wade. I had never known him, to my knowledge. He is a man about town, and I had seen him before, because when I saw him in there, and I actually thought he was a part of the press corps at the time.
Mr. Rankin. Were any of your assistants or people working for you there at that showup?
Mr. Wade. I don't believe there were any of them there now. If there is any of them, it is Alexander, because he is the only one down there, but I think he is still up in homicide.
I will go further on that, some of my assistants know him, but he was in my office 2 days before this with a hot check or something where he was trying to collect a hot check or pay someone. I think he was trying to pay someone else's hot check off, I don't know what it was, I didn't see him. He talked to my check section. I found this out later.
Mr. Rankin. By "he" you mean——