Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/26/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_ NUMBER: 124-10108-10141

RECORD SERIES: DI

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 44-1639-300

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

SAC. CG

TO:

DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Cased:NT 54463 Date:

10-12-2017

DATE: 11/26/1963

PAGES: 4

SUBJECT: SEE FBI 44-24016-42

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

03/12/1996

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

01/23/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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URGENT

-11--26--63

; 7-40:

• PM

JLS

TO DIRECTOR AND SAC, DALLAS

FROM SAC, CHICAGO

44-645

-4P

JACK LEON RUBY, AKA,• LEE HARVEY OSWALD DASH VICTIM DECEASED.

CIVIL RIGHTS.

00./. DALLAS.

RE BACKGROUND

TONY LEONARDI, MANAGER OF THE PLAYHOUSE CAFE, FIVE FIVE ZERO

NORTH CLARK STREET, CHICAGO, ADVISED SAS WILLIAM A. MEINCKE AND

1OY/JOSEPH G. SHEA ON ELEVEN TWENTYSIX SIXTYTHREE THAT HE HAS BEEN

ASSOCIATED WITH THE OPERATION OF STRIP JOINTS ULEL LUCIOR OVER

TWENTYFIVE YEARS HE ADVISED THAT HE KNEW PRACTICALLY EVERY OWNER

AND MALE EMPLOYEE IN SUCH BUSINESS OVER THE YEARS. HE ADVISED THAT

JACK RUBY WAS NEVER ASSOCIATED IN THE NIGHTCLUB BUSINESS IN ANY WAY

IN CHICAGO FOR THE PAST TWENTYFIVE YEARS. LEONARDI ADVISED THAT

HE FEELS THAT

IT IS LIKELY THAT RUBY MAY BE CONFUSED WITH ONE

HARRY RUBENSTEIN WHO WAS A SUCCESSFUL STRIP JOINT OWNER FROM NINETEEN

FORTYSIX TO SOMETIME IN THE NINETEEN FIFTIES. A HARRY RUBENSTEIN HAD A

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FREQUENTED. A GAMBLING PLACE FORMERLY OPERATED BY JOE TUCHMAN, NOW

DECEASED, IN THE VICINITY OF DAMEN AND DIVISION STREET IN CHICAGO.

RUBY, ACCORDING TO WARSHAWSKY, WAS A SMALL TIME BETTOR AND FREQUENTED

THE PLAÇE MORE FOR THE. FREE FOOD WHICH WAS OFFERED IN THOSE DAYS THAN

FOR GAMBLING ACTIVITY, WARSHAWSKY SAID THAI RUBY WOULD PUT DOWN A

QUOTE FEW BETS UNQUOTE EACH WEEK. OF SMALL SIZE. IN THOSE DAYS

RUBY WAS CONSIDERED TO BE A QUOTE LONER UNQUOTE AND THAT HE HAD

NO CLOSE FRIENDS. WARSHAWSKY KNEW HIM AS A LOUD AND BOISTEROUS

INDIVIDUAL WITH A QUICK TEMPER. WARSHAWSKY ADVISED THAT TO HIS

KNOWLEDGE, RUBY HAS HAD NO CONNECTION WITH ANYONE IN CHICAGO FOR MANY

YEARS.

CG SIX FOUR NINE EIGHT DASH PC WAS CONTACTED. BY SA

WILLIAM

F.. ROEMER ON ELEVEN IWENTYFIVE SIXTYTHREE BUT AT THAT TIME HAD NO

PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF RUBY. ON ELEVEN TWENTYSIX SIXTYTHREE,

CG SIX FOUR NINE EIGHT DASH PC ADVISED THAT HE HAD SOLICITED

INFORMATION FROM POLITICIANS OF THE IWENTYFOURTH WARD, THE FORMER

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