Mr. Griffin. Do you know why he was upset about it?
Mr. Ruby. Well, he couldn’t see why anything like that could happen. Here is another great man, and he just couldn’t understand it.
Mr. Griffin. Are you surmising this or did——
Mr. Ruby. Well, I talked to George Senator who was his roommate, he said he was infuriated that a sign like that should be put up. And that was brought out in the trial, of course, and proved.
Then he on the night of the assassination, or rather on the afternoon he immediately closed the club, and when he was asked if he—what about the other night club owners because there is another, I think one or two clubs on the same block as his, yes, there are two more, whether they are going to close or not, in a statement he made, he doesn’t care if they close or not, he is going to be closed in respect to the President.
Then he went to the services at the synagogue in Dallas.
Mr. Griffin. Do you know how long he was at that service?
Mr. Ruby. I don’t know how long, but I know that he broke down terribly there.
Mr. Griffin. Did you talk to anybody who——
Mr. Ruby. I heard it from the Rabbi who was there, that he was—of course, most of the people there were broken up but he was most unusual because he was in deep tears, he really was. And he was so upset and so disgusted with this situation that he called my sister Eileen in Chicago and told her this is a good time to get out of Dallas. He is ashamed of it, that this thing could happen there, and he will probably—he wants to come up to Chicago for a few days, you know, to visit with her. Well, she discouraged him from coming up. He wanted to come to Chicago, and he also called my brother Hy in Chicago after the assassination, and told him how terrible it was, and he thinks he is going to get out of Dallas, he is coming back to Chicago altogether.