Mrs. Rich. Possibly.
Mr. Hubert. And that you made that recognition, or you associated that man whom you saw with Vito Genovese, solely because you had seen a picture of Vito Genovese.
Mrs. Rich. That’s correct.
Mr. Hubert. And you came to the conclusion, then, that Vito Genovese and that group of people were involved in this matter.
Mrs. Rich. Within my own mind; yes. I thought—then I got thinking perhaps the higher-up that the colonel spoke of was perhaps the element I did not want to deal with that was running the guns in, and God knows what else.
Mr. Hubert. Why didn’t you report it to the authorities in the interval between the third meeting and the time you left Dallas?
Mrs. Rich. For the simple reason that I was hesitant about mentioning anything about my husband’s past. I did not know how much of what my husband had told me was true. I did not know how much of that he knew before I knew it, or how deeply he was involved in anything. And quite frankly if my husband was still alive, I would never have gone to the FBI.
Mr. Hubert. But you already told us at the end of the second meeting you had decided to tell the authorities.
Mrs. Rich. Not when I see that element there.
Mr. Hubert. But that element does not affect——