Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: CLEMENTS, MANNING C., DIRECTOR, FBI
To: DIRECTOR, FBI, CLEMENTS, MANNING C.
Document date: 14/12/63 00:00
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY:

RECORD_NUMBER:

RECORD_SERIES:

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

FBI

124-10126-10121

DE

44-563-122

Released

under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Note!.

Case#:NW 45656 Date:

11-15-2017

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

CLEMENTS. MANNING C.

TO: DIRECTOR. FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 12/14/1963

PAGES:

657

SUBJECT:

JR, FBI REPORTS, ASSOC, INTERVIEWS

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

REVIEW DATE:

02/26/1999

STATUS Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

01/25/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

JFK Law 11(a)

COMMENTS:

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DI 44-1639

RMO/ jn

The following investigation was conducted by SA ROY

M. OSBORN, at Birmingham, Alabama on November 25, 1963.

The following gambling informants of the Birmingham

Office were contacted on November 25, 1963 and all denied knowing

RUBY:

BH 227-0, BH 220-C, BH 282-PC, BH 283-PC, BH 293-CP,

BH 299-CP, and

EUGENE MORRIS RILEY, PCI.

The following logical gambling sources were likewise

contacted and could furnish no information conceming RUBY, and

denied knowing him: CHARLES PHARO, Manager Bowlo-Mac, 3221

Third

Avenue, South; ESTHER WRIGHT, Meyers Drive-In, 2731 Eighth Avenue

North; ISRAEL COPLON, 1819 Fourth Avenue North, LOUIS KOPLON,

1813 Fourth Avenue North, GEORGE HARRISON, 3510 Sixth Avenue

South, and JONES ANDERSON,

1827 First Avenue North. The above

sources are either known gamblers or associates of

same.

Records of the Birmingham Police Department contain

no information concerning a JACK RUBY Or RUBENSTEIN.

PCI NORMAN SIMON, personally negative on Ruby, provided

name of MORRIS BLOCK, old-time Chicago bar operator and bookie,

who furnished information forwarded in FD-302 and teletype lead

Others contacted with negative results are LA 3445-0,

On November 26, 1963, Salt Lake City Office advised all

logical sources and informants

in the Salt Lake City Division

have been contacted and alerted for information regarding RuBY.

No pertinent information has been developed to date.

Information

as to sources contacted is being maintained in Salt Lake City files.

On December 2, 1963, the Latent Fingerprint Section,

Identification Division, advised as

follows:

"Fingerprints

and palm prints Jack I. Ruby, FBI #693083E,

not identical with latent impressions remaining unidentified in

the case entitled 'Assassination of President John F. Kennedy,

November 22, 1963; AFO.'"

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DL 44-1639

AT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

Gambling informants and sources, LV 26-C, LV 127-PC,

LV 117-C-TE, CHARLES EDWARD ANDERSON g

PCIs

HARRY COOPERSMITH, PCI,

EMANUAL, FREEDMAN, PCI, all contacted 11/25/63, negative concerning

RUBY •

Las Vegas indices negative re YUDIE JACOBS, ART WAYNE,

and SAMMY MENOSH.

On 11/26/63 Salt bake City Office advised all logical

sources in the Salt Lake City Division have been contacted and

alerted for information regarding ruBy.

No pertinent information

has been developed to date.

sources contacted

is

being maintained in salt take City files.

IV 54-0 advised on 11/29/63,

Las Vegas telephone

number 735-4303 called by RUBY Is unpublished number of LEWIS

MCWILLIE, associate of RUBY, previously interviewed.

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LV 44-48

LV 54-C, on November 29, 1963, advised SA ROBERT D.

LEE,

that Las Vegas telephone number 735-4303 is a non

published number listed to LEWIS MC WILLIE, 3627 Eastern

Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada.

MC WILLIE was interviewed in this matter on

November 25, 1963.

results, have been furnished to Bureau and Dallas.

been furnished co

Information and FD-302, reflecting

PCI PAUL F. COE, Assistant Manager, Thunderbird

otel, Las Vegas, on November 29, 1963, advised SA WAYNE H.

DRAKE

that no records on incomino calls to the Thunderbird

Hotel are

maintained.

The Thunderbird Hotel telephone is

735-4111.

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SL 44-496

AUR: paw

AT ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

on 12-4-63, SL 1130-C advised SAA HOWARD C. KENNEDY

that on the night of 12-3-63, he was

talking to JACK BUHLINGLER,

address unknown, who is employed as a cab driver by st. Louis

County Cab Company.

BUHLINGLER remarked to the informant

that JACK RUBY, the man who shot LEE OSWALD In Dallas, Texas,

was a cab driver employed by the Ace Cab Company at St. Louis

"years ago."

The informant said that BUHLINGLER indicated to

him that BUHLINGLER had been furnished this information by

one or more "old-time cab drivers" who used to work for Ace

Cab Company, or by veteran cab drivers still at Ace Cab company.

The informant expressed awareness that several

drivers who worked for Ace Cab Company ten to fifteen years

are now employed by St. Louis County Cab Company, although

he was unable to furnish their names.

The informant could

furnish no further information concerning this matter and

requested that his identity as the recipient of this

information from BUHLINGLER be concealed since he did not

know whether BUHLINGER had furnished the information to

anyone other than the informant.

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With regard to the interview with JOSEPH P. MUETH

on 12-4-63, as reflected in this report, the following

Information was received:

by the FBI regarding the investigation being conducted in Dallas,

Texas, and that he had been questioned as to whether RUBY had

ever been employed as

a driver with the company.

Mrs. COSTELLO

statedned, "Rusy", and asked munat did you tell them?

MUETH

told the

FBI that RUBY had never been employed

there

to his knowledge.

Mrs. COSTELLO then indicated to MUETH that

what MUETH should have told the FBI was

that RUBY was employed

there and that he should have told them that' "about two days

before that happened he must have taken a plane down there."

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DI 44-1639

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The following investigation was conducted by SA

ROYAL I BLASSINGAME at San Juan, Puerto Rica, on November

26, 1963:

SARAH TORRES PERALTA, PCI, an attorney for Local

610, Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, San Juan, advised

ANA MARIA DEL VALLE, Secretary-Treasurer, Hotel and Restaurant

Workers Union, was approached by MIGUEL CRUZ, Organizer

for Local 901, Teamsters Union,, who made a statement, "Now

that we!ve

taken care of President KENNEDY, we'll have no

trouble in taking over things."

PERALTA also furnished above Information to THOMAS

A. KENNELLY, Departmental

Attorney, U.S. Department of

Justice, Washington.

'BBX

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