Mr. WALL. I have one. I’m sorry. I do have one. As I said, Phil
Burleson is Joe’s and my attorney and, therefore, I would go see Phil
every once in awhile just to give Jack a message of hello, that we
are thinking of him, and to see how he was. We were all right and
everything. I did ask Phil to do this for me. Every once in awhile I
would do it.
Mr. SPECTER. Have you now related all of the contacts you have had with
Ruby since November 24, 1963?
Mr. WALL. Yes, sir.
Mr. SPECTER. Going back to November 21, the day before the
assassination in 1963, did you have occasion to talk by telephone to
Tom McKenna on that day?
Mr. WALL. The day before?
Mr. SPECTER. The assassination?
Mr. WALL. No, sir; not at all unless it was about football. I am a
football fanatic. It was the day before. This would be Thursday, right?
Mr. SPECTER. Would it refresh your recollection if I said you had a
telephone call with him at about 6:50 on that day?
Mr. WALL. No, sir; it wouldn’t because I call him quite frequently.
I just made a telephone call to him day before yesterday. Unless it
was just to say hello and everything. We did not decide to go down to
Galveston until that afternoon, the day after the assassination.
Mr. SPECTER. How long have you known Edward Parker of Fort Worth?
Mr. WALL. Eddie Parker is—came to work for us for Bottoms Up at the
Adolphus and he would help in costume changes and setting up the props.
We had a portable stage which he would set up and get everything ready
before the show would start. That would be about a year and a half, but
we performed at the Playbill Club, we performed a show which he also
helped us in, called Razzmataz was the name of the show.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you recall telephoning him on October 1st, 3d, and 4th,
1963?
Mr. WALL. No, sir; I would call him in any respect to the show. The
only reason I would have anything to do with him would be to tell him
whether we would do a television show, needed him there and needed Carl
Tressler, who was in our show. They are roommates. Anytime I would call
them would be in reference to the show.
Mr. SPECTER. You already mentioned you called him on November 22.
Mr. WALL. To tell him probably that the show had been canceled.
Mr. SPECTER. At about what time was that call made, if you recall?
Mr. WALL. Well, it would probably be around, I would say, 1 or 2
o’clock. As soon as Mr. Anderson told us we would not perform that
night or Saturday.
Mr. SPECTER. Could it have been as late as 6 that evening?
Mr. WALL. Yes, sir; it could have been as I was going out of town to
tell him I was leaving and would be in Galveston; if they needed to get
hold of me to call the operator.
Mr. SPECTER. But you didn’t go to Galveston on Friday, November 22, did
you?
Mr. WALL. No, sir; that was just to tell him we were not going to do a
show that night.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you know a Patricia Farmer?
Mr. WALL. No, sir.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you know a Clarence Vought?
Mr. WALL. No, sir.
Mr. SPECTER. What relatives, if any, does Tom McKenna have in Dallas?
Mr. WALL. The only one that would be there would be his son who is 18
years old, George McKenna, who was working on a construction job at the
Republic National Bank.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you know R. D. Matthews?
Mr. WALL. No, sir.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you know whether Jack Ruby knew anybody by the name of
R. D. Matthews?
Mr. WALL. Only if that was the man I couldn’t think of in the previous
statement. I said I knew their faces but not their names, but the name
doesn’t ring a bell at all.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you know anything about Jack Ruby’s trip to Cuba?
Mr. WALL. I have never heard of anything like that at all.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you know anybody by the name of Henry Atcheson,
A-t-c-h-e-s-o-n, or Henry Acteson, A-c-t-e-s-o-n?
Mr. WALL. No, sir.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you make any telephone call from the Adolphus Hotel to
anyone in Canada during March of 1964?
Mr. WALL. I can’t remember ever calling Canada. As I stated before to
you the only one that I ever knew in Canada was Kay Sutton, who was a
performer in our show who was somewhere in Canada.
Mr. SPECTER. Do you know James F. Mahon?
Mr. WALL. Yes, sir; he is my attorney, too.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you make a call to him on November 23, that is
Saturday after the assassination?
Mr. WALL. Yes, sir; possibly.
Mr. SPECTER. What was the purpose of that call, if I may ask?
Mr. WALL. Well, to find out, possibly, if he knew anything about Jack;
to see if he was going to represent Jack or anything. He also knew Jack
Ruby.
Mr. SPECTER. This was the day before the shooting of Oswald?
Mr. WALL. Well, it could be any business thing. Phil handled most of
our things but as things stand right now Jim Mahon handles everything
for us, our bookkeeping and everything, so it could have been anything
at all.
Mr. SPECTER. Did you make any other calls on November 23, 1963, if you
can remember?