He also called his good friend, this was all brought out in the trial, not all of it but most of it, although those last two incidents about him calling my brother and my sister were never entered into evidence. We couldn’t understand that.
He also called a fellow in California, Al Gruber, I think is his name, and Gruber said he just couldn’t talk. He just couldn’t talk he was so broken up.
So we know he was really broken up, and he must have really loved him because otherwise you just don’t do these things. And the fact that he went to the newspaper and complained to them for even taking the ad, and I mean nobody else did this.
Mr. Griffin. Do you have any examples of his conduct in Dallas before the President was shot that would show his feeling toward President Kennedy?
Mr. Ruby. No; We don’t have—nothing that I know of. We don’t have anything that I know of.
Mr. Griffin. I wonder if you can give us some more examples of——
Mr. Ruby. There is a bit about his patriotism that might mean something.
Mr. Griffin. Tell us about that.
Mr. Ruby. This happened many years ago. They were playing the Star Spangled Banner in the stadium in Chicago before all sporting events, and a friend who was with him, a fellow by the name of Mr. Kolitz told me this himself, he was smoking.
Mr. Griffin. What is Mr. Kolitz’s first name?