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

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AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-10077-10025

RECORDS SERIES

: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 44-24016-239

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : FBI

FROM

: SAC,

CG

:No Title]

: 11/25/1963

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

SUBJECTS

: JR, ASSOC, INTERVIEW,

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED

RESTRICTIONS

CURRENT STATUS

: RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW

: 03/11/1996

OPENING CRITERIA

: INDEFINITE

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF IMVESTICAION

U. S. DEPRITMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTIOIL I

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

V.

O DIRECTOR AND SAC, DALLAS

FROiT SAC, CHICAGO /44- NEW/

BE 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 Ä CLOSE FRIEND OF SUBJECT RUBY FOR MANY

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

UNQUOFE WAS HOT TEMPERED ON OCCASIONS BUT WAS GENERALLY

OF A GOOD DISPOSITION. HE STATED 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

deceased

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

PHONETIC) ENPAREN. IN THE MIDDLE

Chices® INETEEN FORTY/S, ACCORDING

TO THE INFORMANT, ZUCKERMAN WAS SHOT AND THE INFORMANT

BELIEVED THAT THIS OCCURRED BECAUSE ZUCKERMAN DID NOT CUT

WALEONARD

tris

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

PROFIES OF KIS BOOK. SHORTLY AFTER THIS SHOUT? YOU?

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REG- 107

WE DEFoR 19632001

MR. BELMONT FOR THE DIRECTOR

22 DEG 2 31U53

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STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THREE OF

THE FOUR GUNS USED BY MEMBERS OF THE NATIONALIST PARTY OF

PUERTO RICO IN THE SHOOTING AT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

WASHINGION, D.C., ON MARCH ONE, NINETEEN FIFTY FOUR WERE

PURCHASED BY ONE WILLIAM GALETTY, GARY, INDIANA, FROM

SCARAMUZZO AND SONS, EIGHT ZERO ONE SOUTH HALSTED STREET,

Il CHICAGO.

CG SIX FOUR FOUR THREE DASH C ADVISED SA JOSEPH G. 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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PA-SE FOUR

IT SHOULD BE

TED THAT THE RECORDS OF

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 G. 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 CHICAGO-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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