(Reporter’s note: 3:12 p.m.)
Mr. Herndon. Mr. Ruby, there are two questions I want to ask you about on our first series.
I know you couldn’t refrain from laughing and talking about that middle name of “Leon.” Do you want to further explain that?
Mr. Ruby. Yes; I don’t use it, so hence it’s sort of a remembrance of a very good friend of mine. I used it on my driver’s license, but since then it has become a habit of keeping it on my driver’s license, but I’ve never been called with it and very rarely do I sign papers that way, but once I stated it on my driver’s license, I had to follow through with it that way, and that’s the answer to it. Once you have it on your driver’s license, you have to have it the same way.
Mr. Herndon. Do you like the name “Leon”?
Mr. Ruby. Well, I did more for sentimental reasons, but as I went along later I sort of dropped it.
Mr. Herndon. Is it actually on your driver’s license, though?
Mr. Ruby. I think it’s Jack L. Ruby. No—Jack Leon Ruby. It’s Jack Leon Ruby on my driver’s license and that’s something that once you start with it, and its been years ago, when you renew your license, it remains the same, but outside of signing papers or contracts or anything of vital importance, you only find out it’s much simpler to sign “Jack Ruby.”
Mr. Herndon. All right, Mr. Ruby, and one other question. I would just like to ask you what went on in your mind when you did answer the question “Yes” to “Have you ever been arrested?”
Mr. Ruby. Well, the police had taken me—I had been arrested, because when the police officer said, “Jack, come on, we’re taking you down,” you’re arrested.