Mr. Meyers. Well, at the table that evening, my brother and sister-in-law had never seen our plant in McKinney. McKinney is 30 miles north of Dallas. The airport, I assume—and I could be a little wrong on mileage—is about 10 or 12 miles in, more or less, the same direction from Dallas. I wanted my brother and his wife to see our plant. So they had reservations to leave Dallas on an 11 something flight that morning. I couldn’t tell you exactly what the time was. I do know it was shortly before the President was due to arrive, because this, of course, was all published in the Dallas papers. So I said to Eddie, I said, “Eddie, why don’t I pick you up tomorrow morning, you and Thelma, at the Adolphus, we will have breakfast. I will pick you up early, about 8 o’clock. We will have breakfast. I will run you over to the plant. It won’t take me more than an hour to get there. We will spend a half hour or so, and you can look it over, and I will bring you back to the airport on my way back to Dallas.”
So then the question came up, “Won’t we get hungry up at the airport?” “No,” I said, “we will get there before the President’s plane is due to arrive, and I am not going to stay and watch the airplane come in, and I will drop you off and take off, and I should be out of the crowd before the crush or whatever is going to happen—you know—the mob of people going out to see him. So this was arranged, and this was the only conversation about the President coming in.
Mr. Griffin. Was Jack Ruby present during that conversation?
Mr. Meyers. I think so.
Mr. Griffin. Do you recall his saying anything during that conversation?
Mr. Meyers. If he said anything, I have no recollection of it because obviously this whole thing was as far from my mind as if you told me you were going to jump off the top of that building over there.
Mr. Griffin. How long did Jack remain at the Cabana?
Mr. Meyers. Not very long. He left before my brother and sister-in-law did. I would say he stayed maybe 20 or 30 minutes.
Mr. Griffin. Did you see him again that night?
Mr. Meyers. No.