One of the most controversial witnesses during John Kennedy's assassination was Victoria Adams. She worked in Scott Foresman's office on the fourth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building during John Kennedy's assassination. She testified that immediatly after the assassination she ran down the stairs (which she estimates to be about one minute) and ran out the building towards Elm street where she said she saw Jack Ruby. So Victoria Adams Testimony puts Jack Ruby at the corner of Houston and Elm only moments after the assassination. Her exact words are.
Mr. BELIN - That is helpful information. Is there any other information you have that could be relevant?
Miss ADAMS - There was a man that was standing on the corner of Houston and Elm asking questions there. He was dressed in a suit and a hat, and when I encountered Avery Davis going down, we asked who he was, because he was questioning people as if he were a police officer, and we noticed him take a colored boy away on a motorcycle, and this man was asking questions very efficaciously, and we said, "I guess he is maybe a reporter," and later on on television, there was a man that looked very similar to him, and he was identified as Ruby.
And on questioning some police officer, they said they had witnesses to the fact that he was in the Dallas Morning News at the time. And I don't know whether that is relevant or what.
Mr. BELIN - That is all right, we want to get that information down. Was this before you got back in the front door of the building that you saw this?
Miss ADAMS - Yes, sir; while I was standing by the motorcycles.
Mr. BELIN - Is there anything else?
Miss ADAMS - That is all, I believe.
What is interesting about this story is the Police Officer that told her that Jack Ruby had witnesses that put him in the Dallas Morning News Building During the assassination. We have no way of knowing who this officer was or when he told her this but "nothing could be further from the truth"
Jack Ruby's side of the story was that he was in the Dallas Morning News Building during the assassination which happened at about 12:30 placing an advertisement for his nightclub and that John Newnam who usually handles his ads saw him there at that time. His exact words are.
In the first place, I don't want to go where there is big crowds. I can't explain it to you. If I was interested, I would have seen it on television, our beloved President and all the parade that transpired.
But all that adds up why it is important for me to be in the News Building.
I owe the Government quite a bit of money, and it is doing business out of your pocket, supposedly, in the slang expression.
Well, John Newnam comes in, and evidently he took it for granted I finished my ad, and I don't recall if he paid for his ad, and suddenly there is some milling around. I think it was 12, or 15 minutes after 12, I don't recall what, but John Newnam said someone had been shot.
And I am sorry, I got carried away. It is the first time I got carried away, because I had been under pressure.
And someone else came running over and he said a Secret Service man was shot, or something to that effect.
And I am here in the middle with John Newnam, because Newnam isn't paying any attention to anyone else, and there is a lot of going back and forth.
So someone must have made a statement that Governor Connally was shot. I don't recall what was said. And I was in a state of hysteria, I mean.
You say, "Oh my God, it can't happen." You carry on crazy sayings.
There was a little television set in one office not far away from where I had been sitting at the desk. I ran over there and noticed a little boy and a little sister say, "I was standing right there when it happened." I mean, different things you hear on the television.
Then the phone started ringing off the desk and I heard John Newnam say people were complaining about the ad, why they accepted this ad.
(A tray of water and glasses was brought in.)
The problem with this is that when Jack Newnam testified before the Commission he said he was watching the Presidential Motorcade and left and walked back (about 7 or 8 blocks) back to the News Building but he didn't get there till 12:40 His exact words are.
Mr. HUBERT. Could you tell us what time it was you first saw Ruby on that day ?
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Mr. NEWNAM. It was approximately 12:40.
Mr. HUBERT. How do you fix that time, sir?
Mr. NEWNAM. I fix that time this way: I watched the motorcade at Main and Austin. After the motorcade had passed, naturally, I proceeded to the office to take care of a few matters which had to be taken care of.
Mr. HUBERT. Had you been to the office prior to going to see the parade?
Mr. NEWNAM. I had been there early in the morning; yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. At what time did you leave to go to see the parade?
Mr. NEWNAM. Well, I left on our regular business--I left the office--I imagine around 9:15 or 9:30.
Mr. HUBERT. Ruby was not there then?
Mr. NEWMAN. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Go ahead then about your fixing of the time at which you got back to the second floor of the building.
Mr. NEWNAM. I knew the motorcade was coming to Dallas and through downtown, and since my area covers downtown, I was rather anxious to get as much done as quickly as possible to get back to the office, and after taking care of the business which was normal to take care of, I walked back to the--I was walking back to the office because it was just about as quick to walk as to try to wait for a shopper's bus, because the crowd was gathering.
Mr. HUBERT. At the time you saw the parade, how far were you from the Dallas Morning News office?
Mr. NEWNAM. I was about--well, walking distance, I would say about 7 or 8 blocks.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you walk back?
Mr. NEWNAM. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Approximately what time do you think you saw the President pass?
Mr. NEWNAM. I would say approximately 12--it must have been about 12:25 or possibly 12:26.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you leave your position on Austin and Main and proceed to walk back to the Dallas Morning News Building, immediately after the President himself had passed in the motorcade?
Mr. NEWNAM. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. And you walked the 7 blocks or so?
Mr. NEWNAM. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. When you got there, was Ruby on the second floor of the Dallas Morning News?
Mr. NEWNAM. Yes; he was.
Mr. HUBERT. Was he standing or sitting or what was he doing?
Mr. NEWNAM. He was sitting at my desk.
Mr. HUBERT. That is to say--No. 23 on Exhibit No. 4, is that correct?
Mr. NEWNAM. Right, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you know at that time when you first saw him, that the President had been shot?
Mr. NEWNAM. No, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. What was he doing?
Mr. NEWNAM. He was looking at a paper; I believe it was that morning's issue of the paper.
Mr. HUBERT. Well, was he engaged in drawing up the draft of an ad?
Mr. NEWNAM. This--he had already completed
As you can see there is a problem with Jack Ruby's alibi. I have searched and I can't seem to find anybody else that can verify Jack Ruby,s whereabouts during the assassination. Was Victoria Adams right? Was that Jack Ruby at the corner of Houston and Elm taking an active role in Jack Kennedy's assassination? What is also interesting about Victoria Adams account of the incident is the fact that she saw Jack Ruby put a Black Kid on the back of a Police Motorcycle and drive off! ( could this be one of the three black men on the fifth floor whose stories are a little shakey themselves) Bonnie Ray Williams, James Jarman etc. Of course that is just mere speculation.
So Jack Ruby could have easily been in front of the Texas School Book Depository Building during the assassination just like Miss Adams said he was and have gotten a ride back to the news building and have been there in just less than five minutes.