Lewis J. McWillie

On the record

• September 1958 — Commission Exhibit 1697 records that "He went to Cuba in September, 1958, and immediately went to work at the Tropicana Casino, remaining there as manager until May, 1960."
• 1960-05/1961-01-02 — The same report says he then "worked at the Capri Hotel-Casino from May, 1960 to January 2, 1961, as a pitboss," that "the Tropicana was Cuban owned," and that he did not know the owner of the Capri.
• 1959 — The report records that in 1959 he invited Jack Ruby to Havana for a week and bought his ticket.
• 8 June 1964 — Interviewed by FBI agents, he said that as soon as Castro took over, "the hired help, such as the waiters, rebelled against Casino management and American ownership was forced out of the gambling business."

The statements on this page are McWillie’s own account to the FBI, entered as a Warren Commission exhibit, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ later treatment of him is a separate record. This archive does not reproduce the home address printed on the first page of the exhibit. No record filed here gives his dates of birth or death.

Records