Mr. Griffin. Who would you list as your friends in Dallas outside of Jim Martin and Jack Ruby?
Mr. Senator. Well, the people I stayed with who were friends of mine.
Mr. Griffin. Can you give us their names?
Mr. Senator. Yes; Jean and Lindy Lauve, a fellow by the name of Bill Downey, Tom Howard, the attorney. I don’t say I associated with him but he is a friend of mine. Another lawyer by the name of Mike Barclay: he is a friend of mine. Not that these are complete associations that you are with them every day or so, or things of that nature.
Mr. Griffin. But are there other people whom you see more often and you are closer to than Barclay and Howard?
Mr. Senator. No; not particularly. Of course, every now and then an out-of-town friend of mine would come in, a traveling man; if he happened to be in Dallas I would see him, or he may call me. In other words, I’ll put it this way—I had a particular hangout.
Mr. Griffin. Where was that?
Mr. Senator. That was the Burgundy Room. I used to go there quite often.
Mr. Griffin. That is in the Adolphus Hotel?
Mr. Senator. That is in the lobby of the Adolphus Hotel. When I used to go in, you know, the latter part of the afternoon, around 5, used to always run across friends that you know and we would always have a talk session or something of that nature there. Of course, I had many friends that came in there.