Mr. Wright. Jack always wanted to be Mr. Big. He felt that he should be the top nightclub owner and the top boss in town, and he tried to capitalize on any type of publicity he could to promote his club.
Mr. Griffin. Do you consider it unusual that Jack Ruby should not have attended the Presidential motorcade, and yet at the same time was very upset over the assassination?
Mr. Wright. Well, like I said before, Jack was a peculiar man. To analyze his thinking within a period of an hour, would take a mass of brains to do so, because he never actually—Jack did things like this, where other people would think them out [snapping fingers].
I have seen him argue and get mad with somebody for no reason at all, just because of what they said or the way they acted just hit him the wrong way. And to say why he would do this and not do this, I couldn’t say. As long as I knew him, he still mystified me.
Mr. Griffin. Were you ever with Jack when he had a gun with him?
Mr. Wright. Yes; he carried a gun in a bank bag on the seat of his car when he went to the bank.
Mr. Griffin. Was it his custom to carry the gun in his pocket?
Mr. Wright. Not to my knowledge.
Mr. Griffin. Did you ever have occasion to drive Jack’s automobile?
Mr. Wright. No.