Mr. Specter. Did he mention anything about any assassin or the assassin whoever he might be?
Mr. Wall. No, sir. The only thing that he said which would be important to the Commission was that he was very upset that the other clubs had decided to stay open and that they did not have the decency to close on such a day and that he thought out of respect they should close. That is the only thing I recall that he said that would be of any importance. The other things were about his business with the union, how we were and why we went down to Galveston.
Mr. Specter. Did he say anything about any intention he might have to do anything to Oswald?
Mr. Wall. No, sir; not at all.
Mr. Specter. Prior to that telephone call on the night of November 23, when was the last time you had talked to Ruby before that?
Mr. Wall. It could have been 2 or 3 days before. I don’t know, as I said. I saw him that often, you know. I do recall the last time I was in his club was the week before he shot Oswald.
Mr. Specter. When were you in his club during that week?
Mr. Wall. We had signed a contract to go into the Continental Hotel in Houston and we had the——
Mr. Specter. By “we” you mean you and Joe Peterson?
Mr. Wall. Right. Whenever I use “we” that is always Joe Peterson. And we had—the man who signed us felt pretty good about it and wanted to stay up beyond 12 o’clock, which is our curfew in Texas, and the only place that was open is the three exotic clubs and we decided to take Larry Grayson, booker of the Continental, to Jack Ruby’s club and let him see a stripper called Jada.