In the meantime, they are telling me how great he is, of course.
Mr. HUBERT. Were you under the impression that they had asked Belli to
come to Los Angeles?
Mr. RUBY. I don’t know.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you think it was a coincidence? Is there anything
factual that happened that might suggest to you that——
Mr. RUBY. Yes; I think that they probably did. I shouldn’t say did,
probably could have. I don’t want to make the statement that they did,
because Woodfield later told me that Belli promised him that he would
write Belli’s version of the trial or whatever you call it, for making
the contact to represent my brother, words to that effect.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Woodfield said this?
Mr. RUBY. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And you heard Woodfield say it or this is something that
somebody else told you Woodfield said?
Mr. RUBY. No; I heard Woodfield say that.
Mr. HUBERT. Woodfield told that to you?
Mr. RUBY. Yes; sure.
Mr. GRIFFIN. When did he tell you that?
Mr. RUBY. That was later on when he learned—this was weeks later when
he learned he wasn’t going to do the story. Somebody else—Belli brought
in a fellow by the name of Al Moscow to do the story.
Mr. GRIFFIN. The story of your brother?
Mr. RUBY. No.
Mr. GRIFFIN. The story of Belli?
Mr. RUBY. Belli—Belli’s book on the trial.