Mr. Meyers. 9 or 10 o’clock Saturday night.
Mr. Griffin. How do you happen to fix that time?
Mr. Meyers. Well, because I was undressed and going to bed and I wouldn’t have gone to bed—I certainly wouldn’t have gone to bed much later than that because there wouldn’t have been anything for me to do or any place to go. It would have been a case of sitting in the room or driving around in the car which I didn’t want to do or sitting in the lobby reading a book which I didn’t want to do. I was in the room in bed and I am again saying it was somewhere, 9, 10 o’clock that night, a few minutes either way, and it was highly possible. And the phone rang and it was Jack on the telephone.
Mr. Griffin. When you talked with the FBI on December 3, you indicated at that time that the telephone call that you received came in at approximately 10:30 p.m. or at least this is what the FBI has reported you said.
Mr. Meyers. It is possible, highly possible. I say 9, 10, give or take a little while. You see, you must understand one thing, Mr. Griffin, Friday after the assassination—I don’t know how to word this so you won’t think I am an idiot—was a reasonably exciting day, may I put it that way, because so much was happening, so much going on, so much tragedy and also in my opinion so much stupidity. However, this is my opinion. And Saturday was pretty much repetition of all this plus what was going on in Washington when they had brought the body back and I think there was, oh, I don’t know, preparations for the funeral or various people on television but it was greatly repetition. And once the first shock of this tragedy had worn off, all of this watching of television with the various commentators and the various different people inevitably saying the same thing, I suppose became rather boring. I was sick enough about it any way.
Mr. Griffin. About how long did your telephone conversation with Ruby last Saturday night?
Mr. Meyers. I would say in the neighborhood of 15 or 20 minutes.
Mr. Griffin. Now, 15 or 20 minutes is a reasonably long telephone call.
Mr. Meyers. It was a reasonably long conversation. I would say possibly 15 minutes.
Mr. Griffin. Tell us what you remember of that conversation, how it started and how it progressed.