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We’re in week 7 of exploring the conspiracy theory about the assassination of JFK.  The jury is still out on this with many of us who remember EXACTLY where we were and what we were doing the moment we learned when our President had been shot and died.

RUBY KILLS OSWALD

On Sunday morning, November 24th, millions of television viewers watched in shock as Lee Harvey Oswald was shot dead in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters.  With Oswald gone, the evidence against him escalated.  On the 25th, the Dallas Police revealed they had found Oswald’s palm print on his rifle.  The funeral director later said that police officials had spent hours with Oswald’s corpse, leaving ink all over his hands.

Oswald’s  killer was Jacob Leon Rubenstein, a.k.a. Jack Ruby, owner of a local strip joint called The Carousel.  Ruby’s perfectly timed, unseen access to the basement suggests the complicity of one or more Dallas policemen. many of whom frequented  The Carousel, where they received free drinks and occasional  favors from Ruby’s “girls”.  Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry chose the basement route for Oswald’s transfer to Dallas County Jail despite early morning phone  calls a warning of a plot to kill Oswald “right there in the basement”.  The officer in charge of basement security was Lt. George Butler, whom Ruby had known since 1947.  Like many Dallas police Butler was a KKK man and he moon lighted as a personal security guard for oil billionaire H.L. Hunt.  Moments before the shooting, Ruby concealed himself behind his friend of 11 years,  Detective William “Blackie” Harrison.

In 1963, Ruby’s failing nightclub was for sale, and he owed $40.000 in back taxes.  Three hours after Kennedy’s assassination, he went to his bank with $7000 in large bills.   He then closed his club and for two days stalked Oswald, visiting the police station several times before finally silencing him.   Had someone made Ruby an offer he couldn’t refuse?

Jack Ruby

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