Mr. Rossi. Stanley Kaufman; and Jack would have occasion to see him on business or one thing or another. Now, during that period of time I saw Jack, you might say, fairly often—once every couple of weeks or sometimes two or three times a week, but sometimes possibly for not a month. Prior to that time, in his different club enterprise or what have you, because my group—myself and my wife would like to dance or occasionally I go out and look for something in the way of various ideas and call on different people, and possibly stop into a club or two, and I would run into Jack Ruby, or possibly meet him out in a bowling alley or something of that nature. I’m not Jewish, but I patronize them because I like Jewish food and I would occasionally run into Jack in a kosher restaurant or somewhere, or anywhere in town, and I am fairly well known in the downtown area of Dallas and so we would always have a little something to say.
Mr. Griffin. Prior to the fall of 1963, were you ever involved in any business enterprise with him?
Mr. Rossi. With Jack?
Mr. Griffin. Yes.
Mr. Rossi. I never really was involved in any business enterprise with him.
Mr. Griffin. Did you ever have occasion to discuss with Jack the opening of a new nightclub?
Mr. Rossi. Yes.
Mr. Griffin. When did Jack first talk to you about that?
Mr. Rossi. That was a day or two before the assassination—that must have been about the 20th of November.
Mr. Griffin. Where did that discussion take place?