Mr. Hansen. Yes, he is a nice fellow.
Mr. Griffin. While you are reading that, I will dictate for the record that I am also marking the diagram which Officer Hansen has drawn for us. “T. M. Hansen, Jr., Deposition July 24, 1964, Exhibit No. 2.”
Mr. Hansen. One thing I want to call to your attention. On this second page—you asked me about his Jewish background and here he says in this statement, it says he considered Ruby to be a fairly emotional individual and recalled that on one occasion at the Silver Spur Club, Ruby hit a man who made a derogatory remark concerning his ethnic background.
I believe that he has made a little error in here. I told him, this FBI man, that this did not happen at the Silver Spur. I may have said the Silver Spur, but I am wrong.
Just before President Kennedy was assassinated, Ruby was in the Burgundy Room, which is located off the lobby of the Adolphus Hotel and it is a cocktail room, and it is run by an individual, and there was nothing said about his Jewish background. Well, there may have been, too. I don’t know, but what some fellow, I don’t know who he was—I heard this, and Ruby even told me that he knocked the hell out of him. This guy got up and called him a queer, and Ruby really slaughtered him. I believe he is capable of it, because I have seen him go and he is a little fat boy——
Mr. Griffin. Is that the same night he had his finger bit off?
Mr. Hansen. Yes. I don’t recall whether it was that same night that I saw him fight before, but when we pulled up, he had two down as big as I, and he gave me——
Mr. Griffin. How about the fight with the four?
Mr. Hansen. That happened out in front of the Silver Spur, but this is the year before this. This occurred in the Burgundy Room. I didn’t witness this. This is hearsay, but I know it happened, because I heard it from too many people.
I don’t know whether he called Jack a queer or a Jew queer, but Jack made him a new set of teeth.