Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, CG
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/25/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER: 124-10119-10129

RECORD_SERIES: DL

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 44-1639-82

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

IO:

TITLE:

SAC. CG

DIRECTOR. FBI

Released under the John

Assassination Recorda

collection det of 1992

144 USC 2107 Note! .

Case#:NW 54463 Date:

DATE: 11/25/1963

PAGES: 6

SUBJECT: SEE FBI 44-24016-239

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

REVIEW DATE:

03/12/1996

STATUS

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

01/23/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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URGENT 11-25-63 8-37 'AM LJC

TO DIRECTOR AND SAC, DALLAS

FROM SAC,. CHICAGO /44-NEW/

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

CIVIL RIGHTS•.

ADMINISTRATIVE DASH CG SIX SIX SEVEN ZERO DASH PC

ADVISED SA JOHN R. BASSETT ON ELEVEN TWENTY FOUR SIXTY THREE

THAT HE HAD BEEN A CLOSE FRIEND OF SUBJECT RUBY FOR MANY

YEARS IN CHICAGO. " THIS INFORMANT ADVISED THAT QUOTE' SPARKY"

UNQUOTE WAS HOT TEMPERED ON OCCASIONS BUT WAS GENERALLY

OF A GOOD DISPOSITION.: HE SIATED THAT RUBY WAS AN EXCELLENT

FIST FIGHTER• ACCORDING TO THIS INFORMANT, RUBY, IN THE MID

NINETEEN FORTY/S, OPERATED A QUOTE BOOK, UNQUOTE OVER A

RESTAURANT LOCATED EAST OF KEDZIE AVENUE ON. THE NORTH SIDE

OF ROOSEVELT ROAD

IN CHICAGO. SUBJECT WAS A CLOSE FRIEND. OF

ONE ABE ZUCKERMAN, ALSO KNOWN AS QUOTE "ZUCKIE" UNQUOTE PAREN

PHONETIC ENPAREN. IN THE MIDDLE NINETEEN FORTY/S, ACCORDING

TO THE INFORMANT, ZUCKERMAN WAS SHOT AND THE INFORMANT

BELIEVED THAT THIS OCCURRED BECAUSE ZUCKERMAN DID NOT CUT

LEONARD PARTICK, ONE OF CHICAGO/S TOP HOODLUMS, IN ON THE

PROFITS OF HIS BOOK..

SHORTLY AFTER THIS SHOOTING, PATRICK

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SEARCHED

SERIALIZED . FILED

NOV 2 5 1963

FBI — DALLAS

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PAGE. THREE

STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS •

IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THREE OF.

THE FOUR GUNS USED BY MEMBERS OF THE NATIONALISI PARTY OF. •

PUERTO RICO IN THE SHOOTING AT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

WASHINGION, DiCo, ON MARCH ONE,

-NINETEEN FIFTY FOUR WERE

PURCHASED BY ONE WILLIAM GALETTY, GARY, INDIANA, FROM

SCARAMUZZO AND SONS, EIGHT

ZERO ONE SOUTH HALSTED STREET,

CHICAGO.

CG SIX FOUR FOUR THREE DASH C ADVISED SA JOSEPH GO SHEA

ON ELEVEN TWENTY FOUR SIXTY THREE THAT HE BELIEVED THE SUBJECT

WAS RELATED IN SOME MANNER TO ONE HARRY RUBENSTEIN. THE

INFORMANT ADVISED THAT HARRY RUBENSTEIN HAD OWNED THE HOTEL

OLYMPIC ON NORTH CLARK STREET ON CHICAGO/S NEAR NORTH SIDE.

APPROXIMATELY FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, HARRY RUBENSTEIN KILLED A

MAN IN THIS HOTEL, BUT BY A PAYMENT OF TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND

•DOLLARS TO A CHICAGO POLICE CAPTAIN, WAS. ABLE TO FIX THIS

CHARGE. ACCORDING TO THIS INFORMANT, HARRY RUBENSTEIN HAD

GOOD CONNECTIONS WITH CERTAIN UNKNOWN CRIMINALS IN THE CHICAGO

AREA BUT WAS NOT CONSIDERED BY THE INFORMANT TO BE A MEMBER

OF THE ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ELEMENT IN THIS. CITY.

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IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THE RECORDS OF THE CHICAGO

POLICE DEPARTMENT REFLECT ONE HARRY REBENSTEIN, A HOTEL

OWNER ON THE NEAR NORTH SIDE, AS HAVING BEEN SENTENCED TO

ONE YEAR PORBATION ON A CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER IN. NINETEEN

FORTY SIX•

CG SIX SIX NINE ZERO DASH PC ADVISED SA JOSEPH GO SHEA

ON ELEVEN TWENTYFOUR SIXTY THREE THAT THE SUBJECT WAS RELATED

TO HARRY RUBENSTEIN WHO FORMERLY OPERATED TWO OR THREE

BARS IN THE CHICAGO LOOP AREA, ACCORDING TO THIS INFORMANT,

THE SUBJECT WORKED AS A BARTENDER FOR HARRY RUBENSTEIN IN A.

BAR AT THE BANKER/S BUILDING IN CHICÄGO-X LOOP. THE INFORMANT

ADVISED THAT IN NINETEEN FORTY TWO OR NINETEEN FORTY THREE,

JACK RUBENSTEIN ATTEMPTED TO ENLIST IN THE UNITED STATES

NAVY BUT WAS REJECTED WHEN HE FAILED TO PASS THE PHYSICAL

EXAMINATION. THE INFORMANT DESCRIBED JACK RUBENSTEIN AS

EXTREMELY PATRIOTIC BUT MOODY• THIS INFORMANT WAS UNABLE

TO FURNISH ANY. INFORMATION CONCERNING HARRY RUBENSTEIN/S

PRESENT WHEREABOUTS OR ACTIVITIES.

BERNARD GLICKMAN PAREN PROTECT IDENTITY ENPAREN ADVISED

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