Mrs. Helmick. No, I didn’t tell him. I thought it was something, I just thought it was gossip, so I gossiped. They went down and talked to the police the day that Jack Ruby got arrested, so I didn’t think it was anything.
I thought surely that they would tell them, so what was the use of me telling them?
Mr. Griffin. Well, you knew that now when you followed the Ruby trial, you knew that none of this came out in the Ruby trial?
Mrs. Helmick. I didn’t follow the Ruby trial. My TV has been broke. Well, it is not really broke but the antenna is messed up on it, and I haven’t had a good TV antenna in 2 or 3 months.
Mr. Griffin. How about in the newspapers, didn’t you follow the newspapers?
Mrs. Helmick. No, I don’t take a newspaper. But Ralph Paul wasn’t brought out in any of this.
Mr. Griffin. How do you know that?
Mrs. Helmick. I just know that he wasn’t because I never heard his name mentioned by anybody else. I mean, I got the gossip. But right after the trial, I guess I don’t know when the trial was, but the FBI soon found me.
Mr. Griffin. They didn’t find you until sometime in June, did they?
Mrs. Helmick. I don’t know, but these people that I worked for, they was trying to keep everything so much of a secret, and I didn’t see anything wrong with what they had said. I mean, they was trying to keep Ralph Paul hid sort of.