Mrs. GRANT. So, he never got that—that’s the wrong date.
Mr. BURLESON. That date really should be early Friday morning, November
22, 1963?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes.
Mr. BURLESON. Which would have been following Thursday. All right. Now,
directing your attention——
Mrs. GRANT. Can I add in over here something. When he was at my
apartment Friday the phone rang and Andy, who is our bartender, said,
“Jack, call Don Safran.”
Mr. BURLESON. Just a minute, we are coming to that, but I want to
direct your attention now to the next statement after the one I just
read. “She advised that after President Kennedy was assassinated
on November 22, 1963, he called the newspapers to change the
advertisements to show that the club would be closed Friday, Saturday
and Sunday, November 22d, 23d, and 24th, 1963.” Would you care to
explain that just a little bit?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes; I heard him call the Dallas Morning News, because
there was a paper coming out at 10 o’clock at night and it seemed to me
that they said it was too late—the Dallas news—you know how it comes
out?
Mr. BURLESON. The first edition?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes; but he said, anyway, put it in Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday, and I heard——
Mr. BURLESON. And it was on the afternoon of November 22d?
Mrs. GRANT. That’s right.
Mr. BURLESON. That he called from your place?
Mrs. GRANT. That’s right.
Mr. BURLESON. He called both of the papers?
Mrs. GRANT. That’s right. Then, he called the Times Herald, but in
between this, it seems that Andy called, who was in charge of the
Carousel Club and he said, “Call Don Saffran.”
Mr. BURLESON. All right. Now, we are going to get onto that but is that
all you wanted to say about what we have just talked about?
Mrs. GRANT. Yes.
Mr. BURLESON. The next immediate following statement says, “She said
that Don Saffran (PH) a newspaper reporter for the Dallas Times Herald,
called him and wanted to know if he was sure,” and I am continuing on
page 3, “he was not going to operate those clubs on any of those three
days. He pointed out that some of the other clubs apparently were not
going to be closed for even one night.
“When Ruby heard that the other clubs were not going to be closed, he
became quite upset and asked Don how anyone with any kind of conscience
could dance and have a good time after the President had been killed.
He ended up by telling Don that he did not care what anyone else did,
that he was going to close for those three days.”
And that is the end of those several sentences. What do you want to add
in your deposition about that?
Mrs. GRANT. Well, as I said, Andy called him and he called Don and
he says, “I’m going to close tonight—tonight.” And this is what Don
says, “Are you going to be closed Saturday and Sunday?” I don’t know
what Jack said, I’ll be honest, at that time, but Jack—there was about
a 3-minute hesitation and he says, “I’m calling him back,” and this
is what I heard him say—he said, “Don this is Jack Ruby.” He said,
“Listen, I will be closed for three days—tonight, Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday,” and he says, “I don’t care when the other clubs close,” and he
says, “We’re broke anyway so—”. In other words, he felt he can’t get
any worse off than he is—it isn’t that he makes a million dollars—I
mean, that was his attitude.
Mr. BURLESON. The rest of page 3, the following three paragraphs on
page 3 appear to be correct; is that right?
Mrs. GRANT. But I wanted to clear this—you see, this wasn’t put in.
Mr. BURLESON. Well, let me ask you this: We are now referring to
the first full or complete paragraph on page 3, which says, “Mrs.
Grant displayed a page from the Dallas Morning News, dated Saturday,
November 23d, 1963, in Section 1, Page 19, containing a one column ad
approximately four inches in length, stating that the Carousel Club on
Main Street, Dallas, would be closed Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.”
What do you want to say about that?
Mrs. GRANT. Well, I understand the early edition didn’t have it yet.
Mr. BURLESON. All right. In reference to the next paragraph, it says,
“Mrs. Grant recalled that on the day of the President’s assassination,
November 22, 1963, Jack Ruby telephoned her at least eight times and
made three personal visits to her apartment,”—what correction or change
do you want to make?
Mrs. GRANT. I think he came twice—one time early in the day and once
later in the afternoon with the groceries.