JFK Assassination System Date: 10/14/20 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: HSCA RECORD NUMBER: _ 180-10118-10095 RECORD SERIES: BRIEFING BOOKS AGENCY FILE NUMBER : Document Information ORIGINATOR: HSCA FROM: TO: TITLE: ° DATE: 09/26/1978 PAGES: 156 SUBJECTS : REVILL, JACK RUBY, JACK, BACKGROUND, BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL INTERESTS RUBY, JACK, BACKGROUND, ASSOCIATES AND RELATIVES RUBY, EARL DOCUMENT TYPE: BRIEFING BOOK CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: = Open in Full CURRENT STATUS: —Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 09/21/1993 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : Briefing Book of R. Edgar. Folder 2 of 2.Box 8. v9.1 1 MW 55923 Docld:32267370 Page i
JFK # F-554 -F-554 (FACS.) F-565 FARL RUBY Index of Exhibits September 26, 1978 Identification Letter of August 17, 1978 from Earl Ruby to House Select Committee on Assassinations, Counsel James E. McDonald, with two attachments Typed facsimile of Ruby letter to HSCA (JFK F-554) Internal Revenue Service audit report on Earl Ruby, Commission Exhibit 2978, dated January 9, 1964 NW 55923 Docld: 32267370 Page 2
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aS a FACSIMILE e — | : 8/17/78 Select Committee on Assassinations U.S. House of Representatives 3331 House Office Building, Annex 2. Washington, D.C. 20515 i Attention: Jim McDonald Dear Mr. McDonald: | Enclosed are expenses incurred during my trip to Chicago to have my deposition taken. | Total miles driven to Chicago and return to Detroit: 600 miles Motel: one night $25.00 . Telephone calls - attached 12.11 Food ‘ ? Regarding telegram alledged sent to Cuba in 1962: I checked with post-office here and learned that there are six Cubas in the U.S. and now I'm sure that the telegram in question was sent to a Cuba here in the U.S. and not to Havana Cuba or any other place in Cuba. | I therefore must go on record as stating that at no. time did I ever send a telegram to Havana Cuba or any place in. Cuba. | There is a Cuba in each of the following states: Alabama NW 35923 Doold: 32267370 Page 7
Page II Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, New York and Ohio. .I ordered the record, "The Controversy" which is about’ the Kennedy assassination and soon as I receive it, I'll send same to you. | Sincerely, Earl Ruby 18135 Livernois Ave. Detroit, Mi. 48221 Tel: (313-863-0400 NW 55923 Doold: 32267370 Page @
AY Deena _ Ut . 7 SENSITIVE CASE REPORT = fo y.., tk Pobre y {Rants : in g Betreit ae Srqsenca) [_) Diotetet Dirsctor _ District | INSTRUCTIONS: Submit through channels to ARC e (J ARC: Cineisnats Rogional Office : cs [—_] Director, Trtellisgenca Diviston | concerned in an original and seven-copies. aoa + : ane Naifonal Offles 5 Waskineton, D.C. - os : ; hee 1. HAME OF CASE OR IDENTIFICATION OF SITUATION ji @ CLASS OP TAX ae Pr tal ee , cae SSISTANT REGIONAL CORMISO. | SARL BE. RUST sO a NTELUIGEN&e be TAXABLE PERIOS 24975 Woodland oo . , Sonthfield, Hichigan : _G AMOUNT OF TAX ao Fo re ; d. Dock aT NO. IP ANY 2. PRINCIPAL ISSUES INVOLVED mete SE LEG “develops ing Information — 3. REASONS FOR SENSITIVITY - a The taxpayer is a brether of Jack Ruby, Gallas, Texas, «he allegedly aornatingtcd Lee Harvey Cavalc, the allegee aesasoin of Prasident John fF, Kennody. ; a a: nt? ee * ‘. ACTION TAKEN OR PROPOSED I have completed an cnalysi is oF long: distant tela; miginating from thea Earl Ruby residence iu Souths fLeld, Nichijan acd “Eran the Lark Fuby und Coorze Voree $ partnership, Cobo Cleonors, Uatroir, Nichigan. Tha pericd covered was tron Octaber 24, 1561 to Decemner 2, 2963, A copy of the analysis in enclosed with this resert for reference purposes The analysis wag compiled fron information fur ophene: Company and. from’ avafluble recoms o C 2, De etreit,. Bichiz Tals ad Each telephena number called vas Os ina dtor’s Siana Lome as eS en: ee MiP B92 3- EE ao nee Soe
Subseribers weee i: i eceupation and/or. tyre of Business was determine ; MS Tax raturns of Seventy-five of the cua hundred and twenty tich{gan persona oe @: Called. were checked.- Corporate’ returns were not included « They’ failed to. 7S. + Poa disclosa any personal transactions with Earl Ruby. However, some of the. te "returns disclosed deductians for interest payments to J. L, hudson Company on charge accounts. Some showed. employnent by Hudson's; by Earl Ruby and George FMareus, d/b/a Cobo Cleaners; cr by firns handling. cleaners supplies or equipment. The balance primarily disclosed various professtornal or ' skilled oscupations, an ‘ "Internal Ravenue Agent R, Anstett determined that Cobo Cleaners hes anex= | Clusive contract with J. f, Hudson Conpany, Datroit, Michigan, to furnish 2... US » Guoton ‘cleaning services for thain custoaars. “Hudson's, being one ne te ‘ ie ' largest department. storas in the midwest, furnish — es this service te nearly all of the areas called by Coho Cleaners, 7 In view of the Cobo ~ Hudson business relationship, coupled with the infor~ mition reportad om the available tax raturns, it appears that the Michigan calls originating from. Cobo Cleaners ware, in connection with that businass,. . So oe In ny last’ report,-dated December 11,’ 19635" ‘tidleated that I would attempt © > ~ to detersina the following individuals background and/or relationship with ea Earl Ruby: lL. Harry C,. Futterman . 7207 E. Prairie | Lincolnwood, Skekie, Illinois - 58 -Laksshera. Driva:: nad Past DAE fen a Ta SE ate RS ge j Ee ’ “South Haven, Michigan’ a a re — 5638.4, Bernard om .: .., . .4,Chieazo.4S,, Illinois... a : ee Be Pa Stare ee Pa TE RB es eR Ee Sw With the exception of checking the tax filing record of Gscar A. Ruby in . the Detroit district where no record was disclosad; I msde e zt nO request. for i any collateral investigations in this matter, It is my understanding that. ' Iam not to initiate any third party inquirtes relutive te this case. The Movember 1963 billing from Cobo Cleatiers (UN,3-0400), discloses that. . ee a ‘four. telephone calls were made. to Dallas, fexas. The calls originated in fe. Chicazo and were charged to the Cobo Cleaners numbar, - : - >> — . ~ os aa ew oS -. fo oe nn awe ~~“ ied . : ? : ee a ee Se uy ae x) a aan! ee ae wenrege ine os “ ‘MW Sho2s “Dodtars22b7970 > Baye Lene mA Oe
ree , Type of c Bate - Call Call 7 Duration |  Subserlber “11-26- a ‘aegis’ eneate Card“) ..10 Minutes” 1 ew tb owe ce e: 11-29-63 — LA.6~-6253 Credit Card “3 Minutes, “3929 Rawlins, Apt.l * Be — oo oo _ (Ruby's sister) a 11-29-63. RL,8-3324 Credit Card 8 Ninutes © Colle; Sullivan © os > 2934 Bain (Attorney) 11-30-63 . LA.6-4775 ss Credit Card 47 Minutes ‘Qscar A. Robinson 9 = Ue gg stg SoM nes oso sats WWAL Buena Vista. EE . eo et . a - P AptS LQ 0 a Oscar A, Robinson is unidentifled. However, he and Oscar A, Ruby Haven, Michigan and Chicayo, Illinois, may be the sans person. f gestac that. a check on this person be considered, since there apne “no business connection with ‘the taxpayer's novelty or cleaning busin According to “Revenue. Avent Ry. Anstett, the Following persons or con apanies. "+8 also do not appear to have any. business connection with Earl Ruby! S busine asses, but have received calls and may | be oF some signif ficance: , l. James Yalch Company (Can2y Mawufecturar) Cambridge, Mass cachase tts . (previously repo orted) @ 2. Deminice Scorta . ce oo . , . a 1205 ®. Grand — ; oo te ea, "Chicago, TLinois. 2 we : * ~ Ae 3. "Ansan Tool & NPee Co, (Auto Accessories) 4750 4, Ronald eo ere i oe ere SO Chicago, Tilineis 0 3 S woke eT “Ownerst Anesi and Mer ‘Lo Unberta Se - rar 4. Arvin Futterman os DS _ a | he Chicago, Illinois, re ee os 0 ORE oe §. Kirk Bubul 2331 Sheridan Road ' Fraternity House Northvestern University ' Chicago, Illinois -_ | ren: fn 3 13 ‘ > o : beet ae bee pects -- . a . pores A Nw 55923 Doeid: 39967370. Page: “tr
§.. Elliot Schwartz z 20026 = 33th fvonua New York, Me x, {Queens) @ ene Doe Triangle "igs Gospany SO I om -  .%71LG& Division Streat co _ ee Gshkesh, Uisconsin 7 (Freviously repor ted) 8, Francis Lynch . 103 South Land Drive : Rochester, New York aa ~ ot oa wont ee Tg , : 2. . _ a ~ Harry Cy, Futterman , concen TF ae ; me 720 E, Prairie os Lincolnwood, skoktfe, Tilinois . Co co, . (previously reported) In view of the nature of this case, the selaction of the above parties for sugpeated bac kyround inveatigations and impor rtanca, {s discretionary —: ae Z Agent énstett to question Earl . 5 long distance calls in 1962 @ and “196 First, becaus se hi s watt cencerns only “the years 1951 and 1962; aaa and secondly, any questions on this line may he ave > Clerupted t the cooperative p attitude’ wands caused | an anecessary, delays. - ‘However, en “January 6, LO6G, an opportunity srose for Agent Anstett to question a ‘Earl Ruby about cer ain partnership deductions, which had the appearance of | ' “possible personal expenses, Includad amsag the questionable items were various lang distance oll ghacres in 1962, Concerning these, eae coe ss - Area Called ~ a Taxnayer's Coaments wae Lo, Evanstony Illinois .  .- : "That's where my partner used ta live. ae fie moved about six months ago to Slen- view,” : ee Lots ce Se Rochester, New York - "That's where our superintendent used -* 7 to live and werk,’ wae - eet . . . am ~ - s an
“Area Called Havana, Cuba NY aiebes, Van Nuys, California JS, Ansonieder, Connecticut fo Skekia, Illinois Chicago Area Ghio Area Broken Arrow, Oklahoza Harioa, Indiana B3enton Harber, } iichiza se Geand Rapids, wichigan Kew York, Kew York a _ finally poving to etroit.” Tange wear 's Comeents oe That a _telegran isn't it 7 re 't.remamber.” OO ae “T dontt remember.” we ware thinking of buyinz some key ains, -- Cook Hfg. I think, but ve ended up buy ping ealend lars," "That's where my fa ore 14 "Suppliers" "Suppliers ~ ¥e try and buy all oup supplies direct from the manufacturers rather than through a. distributor." —s don't remember,” my. par 's ‘other plant.” Muy. partner's other plant." "Another plant - and a dry cleaning eo . wos Aside for some noninal ‘technical. edjustments, the audit examinat! om has disclosed no apparent understatement s, of. dineone or other indications of fraud. + “ Y prepese no furt her investigation In this ¢ ase, inasmuch as there is no criminal potential and all avenues for leads at the taxpayer's office ‘have been checked. Unless informed otherwise, I propose te closa this WW BH9D3 " Déela: 32267370 " ‘Page a3” he. VR » J wee | ¢t yy wae |:
. cane to the files of the Intellirence Division, with the rucamnendetion *, that Internal. Revenue: Agent: Re. Anstett clese his Case on a. | civil basis. te ats : oe * - > er ' _ @ . During this tnveatigation I had. no personal: contact with the ta; cpayer 0 or - or his representatives. All the interviews were conducted by Agent Anst a in relation to his audit,. This is the final sensitive case report in this casd. < : ai . nar . ta ~ . . : : no a | Po . ; wt ee obey . ° 7 . — - . « a 6 4 . tn Wr die ’ i oO é
JACK REVILL Background Captain Jack Revill has been a member of the Dallas Police Department since 1951, and is currently in charge of the Internal Affairs Division of the | Department. . In 1963, Captain Revill was a lieutenant assigned to the Criminal Imtelligence Section of the Department's Special Service Bureau. Captain Revill @ was also a member of a. special Dallas Police investiga- tive unit designed to determine how Jack Ruby gained entrance to the Police Headquarters basement. NW 35923 Doold: 32267370 Page i5
If. Tit. JACK REVILL ,. Background. A. Personal details? B. Professional responsibilities? “1. Now? 2. Then? Criminal Intelligence . A. Information sources and file retention? B.. Criminal Activity; late 50's, early 60's. l. Gambling? | 2. Narcotics? 3. Prostitution? 4. Criminal structure or hierarchy? 5. Activity between Dallas and Miami, New. Orleans and/or Havana? C. Police work in vice area? 1. Informants? 2. Regular beats? Ruby - Dallas Police Department relationship A. Police relations with club owners, generally? ‘B. Special favors? C. Relationship with Ruby? NW 35923 Docld: 32267370 Page 16
Jack Revill "Page 2 Y Dd. Ruby as Dallas Police Department informant? ‘Ll. DPD procedure re: informants? | a. Any or all records kept? 2. “use of Ruby? | E. Dallas Police Department presence at Ruby's clubs? 1. Vice squad duties and checks? 2. Special security officers. 3. Social visits of DPD officers. F. Ruby's access to Dallas Police Department headquarters? l. Ruby better relations with DPD than Sheriff's office? 2. Ruby presence on assassination weekend? @ a. Ever questioned? IV. Ruby entrance to basement - November 24, 1963? A. Information dissemination on transfer plans and security measures? . 1. Assumption coincidence of Ruby walking in after sending money order? 2. Assumption for conspiracy word would have been sent to Ruby re: exact timing of transfer? 3. Consider possibility that. Ruby's arrival triggered the transfer, instead of the reverse? B. How did Ruby get into basement? 1. Investigative approach of DPD special investigative unit, generally, and access to basement, in particular? NW 35923 Docld: 32267370 Page i7
' Jack Revill 10. ll. 12. 13. 14. Findings of special unit on how he got in? Did Jack Ruby confirm the conclusion? To you? Howdid he react? If Jack Ruby entered by another route, what significance if any, would you place on the fact that he said he entered the ramp? What testimony supported the special unit's” finding that Jack Ruby entered by the Main Street ramp? Were polygraphs used on some officers concerning Ruby's entrance to.the basement? Did those results corroborate the special unit's finding that Ruby entered via the Tamp? Did a former officer (Daniels) who said he saw Ruby go in the ramp entrance fail a polygraph? Did anyone else fail polygraphs in connection with your investigation of the assassination or shooting of Oswald? Did the DPD confront the one person who failed with those results? What alternative routes might Jack Ruby have taken to enter the basement? Did the DPD special unit consider all of these alternatives? (to the extent necessary) Were the interior doors of each possible entrance route guarded? (i= not) Did the special unit conclude that anyone was negligent in not having those doors guarded? @ 15. In your opinion, how did Jack Ruby enter the basement? WW 55923 |‘ Doold: 32267370 Page i6 Page 30 it
Jack Revill | = Page 4 @ C. Dallas Police Department response: Was anyone connected with DPD disciplined regarding the. transfer of Lee Harvey Oswald? NW 35923 Docid:32267370 Page i9
EXAMINATION OF JACK REVILL. © September 26, 1978 I. Background Q: What is your full name and where do you live? Q: (To the extent appropriate) What is your present occupation - and rank? QO: (To the extent appropriate) ® What is the. nature of your present assignment and duties? - QO: (To the extent appropriate) What was your occupation, rank, and duties in the 1950's and early 1960's? II. Criminal Intelligence Q: What was the responsibility rs | of the Special Services Bureau in the 1950's and early 1960's? NW 35923 Docid:32267370 Page 20
‘Direct Examination: Mr. Revill Page 2 Q: “Was the Vice Squad a part of _ or separate from the Special. . Services Bureau? Q: To what extent was information which was obtained by the Vice Squad made available to the Special Services Bureau? (On a regular basis or only in special cases?) Q@: To what extent did members of the Special Services Bureau have access to information concerning criminal activity, generally, in Dallas in the 1950's and early 1960's? Q: To what extent did you personally have access to such -information? WW 55923 Doold: 32267370 Page 21
Direct Examination: Mr. Revill Page 3 IIft. To what extent did you receive information concerning criminal activities taking place in Jack Ruby's nightclubs, specifically offenses such as - prostitution, gambling and narcotics activity? Do you have any knowledge of specific criminal activities. - by Jack Ruby? More specifically,.did he ever gamble or was he present when gambling took place? Relationship between Dallas Police Department and Jack Ruby Did you know Jack Ruby personally or know of him?’ (to the extent appropriate) What was your impression of him personally, and what was his reputation among the entire NW 35923 Docid:32267370 Page 22
Direct Examination: Mr. Revill | Page 4 @ Dallas Police ‘force? (Focus on his reputation for honesty, propensity for violence, participation in illegal or shady activities.) Q: What was your impression of Ruby's reputation in the community? Q: What was the nature of the relationship which existed @ ' in the 1950's and early 1960's between members of the Police Department and owners of clubs, such as those run by Jack Ruby? Q: Was there any problem with policemen performing or ‘receiving special favors from Club owners? NW 55923 Docid:32267370 Page 23
Direct Examination:. Mr. Revill Page 5 @ Q: What was the relationship of Jack Ruby with the Dallas Police Department? (Focus here should be on the reliability of previous accounts that Jack Ruby knew a great number of members of the Police Department, and why this would have been the case.) ad . Q: Was Jack Ruby so friendly with the police because he. did favors for the police, such as providing them with free. drinks, food, or a place for private parties? Q: Was Jack Ruby ever used as an informant for the Dallas Police Department? NW 55923 Docld: 323267370 Page 24
Direct Examination: Mr. Revill a Page 6 Q: (To the extent applicable) Did the pallas Police Depart- ment maintain records on any and all informants, and what form did those records take? Q: (To the extent applicable) .Did Jack Ruby ever provide any useful information of any @ kind.to the Dallas Police Department in circumstances less formal than that of an informant relationship? E. G., Enter Cody HSCA interview of July 11,.1978, JFK Exhibit F-566. Q: Did Jack Ruby's cooperation with the Police Department help him regarding traffic e tickets or-pending or potential prosecutions against him? NW 55923 Docld:32267370 Page 25
Direct Examination: Mr. Revill Page 7 Q: (To the extent applicable) Did: members of the Dallas Police Department frequent Jack Ruby's clubs in the 1950's ‘and early 1960's? | (Focus here on whether or not their frequenting of his Clubs: was more common than of other clubs, and why.) Q: What was the policy of the @ Dallas Police Department toward its officers. serving as special security officers in clubs such as Jack Ruby's? Oo To your knowledge, did Jack Ruby have as good a relationship with members . of the Sheriff's office as he did with the Dallas: Police Department? (Focus here should be on the fact that when Ruby e shot Oswald, Oswald was about to be transferred to NW 55923 Docld:32267370 Page 26
Direct Examination: Mr. Revill ~ Page 8 the Sheriff's office; i.e., would Ruby have perceived this as his last reasonable chance at shooting. Oswald?) Q: It is documented that Jack Ruby was present in Dallas. Police Department headquarters on a number of occasions during the: weekend immediately following the assassination. ® To your knowledge, was’ | his presence ever called into question by any member of the Dallas Police Department at the time? Q: Was the intermittent presence of a particular non-officer ‘an unusual event? NW 55923 Doclid:32267370 Page 27
Direct Examination: Mr. Revill | Page @ Q: Excluding, for the moment, Jack Ruby's access to the basement, was any member of the Dallas Police Department punished in any way for the fact that security was lax enough in the headquarters, generally, such that Ruby could be | present on so many occasions during the weekend? Iv. Jack Ruby's entrance to basement - November 24, 1963 Q: How much in advance of the transfer of Lee Oswald was the time of the transfer Known to the public, generally, and members of the “Police Department, in particular? (Focus here should be on when it was known that the transfer would take place at a specific time.) NW 55923 Docld: 322672370 Page 28
Direct Examination: Mr. Revill Page 10 Q: Were you a member of a unit of the Dallas Police Department which was established to investigate the shooting of Lee Oswald? Q: What was the general investigative approach taken by this special unit and did it have sufficient leeway to make a thorough @ investigation? OQ: Prior to the Shooting of Oswald, Jack Ruby had sent a money order from the Western Union office only minutes before. pid the special unit consider the possibility that Jack Ruby had utilized the sending of this money order to make his entrance to the basement and subsequent @ shooting of Oswald seem a fluke coincidence of timing? NW 55923 Docld:32267370 Page 29
Direct Examination: Mr. Revill ‘Page il ad Q: (To the extent applicable) Did the special unit assume that for Jack Ruby to have had assistance in-gaining access to the basement, someone would have had to have told him the exact timing of the transfer, so that he could send the money order and still get into the basement in time to shoot Oswald? QO: (To the extent applicable) Did the Special unit consider the possibility that Jack Ruby received word of the general timing of the transfer and had devised a scheme whereby his arrival at the basement would result in a message being sent upstairs to begin the transfer? | (Focus here is on whether the @ | | special unit considered the possibility that Ruby's arrival was the trigger for the transfer rather than that he only could NW 55923 Docld:32267370 Page 30
Direct Examination: Mr. Revill . Page 12 have received help by way of receiving advance word of the exact timing of the transfer.) Q: What were the findings of the ‘special unit on how Jack Ruby got into the basement? I would like to enter the report of the Special Unit into the record as JFK Exhibit # F-567. I would also like to enter into the record a blow-up of the Warren Commission diagram of the basement, entered as JFK F-568. Q: . Mr. Revill, please point out on the diagram where Jack Ruby shot lee Oswald, and where the ramp is located from @ which he allegedly entered the building. WW 55923 DoclId: 32267370 Page 31
Direct Examination: Mr. Revill Page 13 MW 559293 Could you indicate with reference to the map, where the Western Union building was located? Did Jack Ruby confirm the- conclusion? To you? How did he react?. ! (To the extent appropriate) Are there any questions in your mind concerning Jack Ruby's statements to others that he had entered via the ramp? Did the Special Unit interview everyone who heard Jack Ruby say that he entered via the ramp? (To the extent deemed. appropriate) Did the Special Unit also inter- view Forrest Sorrells of the Secret Service who was present during the questioning? Docld: 32267270 Page 32
Examination: Mr. Revill . Page 19 re) iO lead to the alleyway, or were they aware of it? (As appropriate) Why were guards removed from the interior door approximately 20 to 30 minutes before the ~ shooting? (AS appropriate) ‘Was the guard removed? (As appropriate) Who removed him? ‘Did the. Special Unit conclude that anyone was negligent in not having each and every door guarded, and insuring that each was locked? In your opinion, how did Jack Ruby enter the basement? NW 55923 Docld: 32267370 Page 36
Examination: Mr. Revill Page 20 Q: Dallas Police Department response -- Was anyone connected with Dallas Police Department disciplined regarding the transfer of Lee Harvey Oswald? NW55923 Docld: 32267370 Page 39