Mr. Hansen. I was assigned to Main and Akard, which is the corner I have been working for 11 years.
Mr. Griffin. Is that near the Carousel Club?
Mr. Hansen. That is two blocks, approximately, from the Carousel Club. The Carousel Club is on the corner of Commerce and Field, and I was working at the corner of Main and Akard the day that the President came through.
Mr. Griffin. Did you know Jack Ruby before November 22?
Mr. Hansen. Oh, yes.
Mr. Griffin. How did you first happen to meet Jack Ruby?
Mr. Hansen. Well, to the best of my knowledge, approximately in 1950 or 1951, I believe, Jack Ruby ran a beer joint that is what it was, a beer joint down here on South Ervay in the south part of town known as the Silver Spur. At that time when he was running this place, I had been working further south than that over in the colored district, and I was getting moved around. I was a young man, and a new man in the department, and I shifted around, and I went down on squad 41, which the Silver Spur was on that district, and all up and down this street at that time, that was one of your streets where you got your characters. If they were out, they was on that street.
We worked that pretty heavy, and naturally you worked all the beer joints and these places and dancehalls, and you get a little action up and down there. And I had occasion to go in there and check those places from the 400 block all the way out to Forest Avenue, and it just happened Jack Ruby’s place was in there. We checked him just like everybody, and that is when I first come in contact with Jack Ruby. I don’t even recall when he bought the place, but that is the first time I ever knew him.
Mr. Griffin. Since then over the years, have you had occasion to see him from time to time?
Mr. Hansen. Oh, yes; I have seen him pass me on the street and he speaks to me.