Mr. Griffin. What do you mean when you said you were in deep mourning?
Mr. Ruby. Well, we cried a lot in our family when this happened, I mean actual tears.
Mr. Griffin. Can you tell us when this happened? Can you describe to us where and when and who was present? What was happening around you?
Mr. Ruby. Well, I don’t know exactly what our—but I know after this happened, probably on Friday night, my wife was definitely in tears at that time, and I was, too. We both greatly admired him. In fact, my wife on many occasions, even before the incident, she just loved him. There was nobody greater than President Kennedy. She made a statement many times.
Mr. Griffin. Are you both registered Democrats?
Mr. Ruby. I was a Democrat all my life. In fact, I worked for the Democratic headquarters in Chicago many years ago. All our family has been Democrats all our lives, as far as I can remember.
Mr. Griffin. Do you recall what you did Sunday morning?
Mr. Ruby. On the 26th? Yes.
Mr. Griffin. The 24th.
Mr. Ruby. The 24th. We needed some electrical work done at the plant, and the only time to do it without interfering with production was to have it done on Sunday morning. So I had the electrician come in on Sunday, and I met him there, I think, about 10 o’clock probably, Sunday morning, at the plant to do this work, and I was there until—I just wanted to get them started, and I had one of my other employees there to watch things, you know, because we had an outside contractor, electrical contractor here to do the work, and there is a lot of clothing there and we wanted to be careful if they worked on the ceiling that they didn’t drop dirt on the clothing and so forth.