Mr. Burleson. Did Jack ever tell you why he shot Oswald?
Mr. Ruby. No; he never mentioned his name to me. He never mentioned his name.
Mr. Burleson. You were in the service?
Mr. Ruby. Yes, sir.
Mr. Burleson. I know one of Jack’s brothers was in the intelligence?
Mr. Ruby. I was in the Army intelligence.
Mr. Burleson. You were in the Army intelligence—for how long?
Mr. Ruby. Well, we were stationed at Langley Field in 1942 and 1943 and a Captain Southern swore me in as an agent, to keep an eye on Communists and Nazi saboteurs and to see whether anybody was leaving subversive literature around for the boys to read, and if I did see anybody acting suspicious to write a letter into a certain box number in Newport News, Va., which was about 20 miles away from Langley Field, and have a general theme, in fact, he says he checked up on my family history and all of the members of the family, and to write just like I am writing to my family, in fact he mentioned my brother Jack and write a letter like you are writing, “Dear Brother Jack: Last night we went to town and we had a few beers and we went to a movie and had a few dances and Pvt. John Smith has been acting kind of queer lately,” and he said somewhere in the letter mention that and they would take care of it from then on, and I had to sign my name Johnny Newman.
Mr. Hubert. What was the captain’s first name; do you recall?
Mr. Ruby. I don’t recall his first name, but his name was Southern.