Mr. Robertson. I learned that they were holding the press conference down in the basement, but I did something else first rather than go down there, because we had a man down there on television. I don’t recall just what else it was, but I had something I wanted to check on, so subsequently I went downstairs and I talked with Henry after the thing was over, briefly.
Mr. Griffin. Would there be any possibility that you saw Jack Ruby between the time you got off the telephone call and went down to the basement?
Mr. Robertson. No.
Mr. Griffin. Let’s try to work backwards. Before you made this telephone call, do you recall what you had been doing? What did you make the telephone call about?
Mr. Robertson. I have no recollection of that at all. It was one of a series of telephone calls that I can’t even give you any idea of how many, which was just a continual feeding of information into Walter Evans, and then trying to determine between ourselves which of this was valuable enough to publish and something that I would report on and what we ought to sit with until we got more confirmation, and that sort of thing.
Mr. Griffin. Are you able to pinpoint time at all between the time you had your sandwich or hamburger and the time you made that telephone call?
Mr. Robertson. Not in my own mind. Perhaps there is. If it is any help to you, if you have information on time which can go with this, it may narrow it down. It was before the police department changed for the first time their shift on guard at Captain Fritz’ door. It was, I am reasonably certain, during the first shift of the two officers.
Mr. Griffin. Do you know the officers who were on guard?
Mr. Robertson. No; I do not. I believe—let me stress that word because I may be wrong about this, that it was after the first session of interrogation in Captain Fritz’ office. Whether it was while Oswald was upstairs, or after he had been brought back, I am not certain, but I believe it was after the first session of interrogation.
Mr. Griffin. Well, is there any question in your mind about that man that you did see was Jack Ruby up there on the floor?