Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

The Wizard found out that both Detective Sims and Detective Boyd worked security for LBJ when he came to Dallas in 1960. My impression is that Johnson paid them. The Wizard found images of each of them hovering around LBJ. I can't find the one with Boyd right now, but here is the one with Sims. 

Now recall this photo of the Garage Shooter of Oswald, James Bookhout, hovering with Sims, Boyd, and Hall scant minutes after the shooting.

I've said many times that the order to do this must have come directly from LBJ. That's President LBJ. And I doubt they would have done it without that order. After all, we are talking about murder here: the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. You can get the death penalty for murder. Jack Ruby got the death penalty for supposedly killing Oswald.  How ridiculous that is: the State was going to put Ruby to death for killing a man that they had every intention of putting to death.  

It was the kind of thing that you wouldn't do unless you had pretty much a guarantee of immunity. Well, who was in a better position to grant immunity than the President of the United States? 

The Wizard thinks that Bookhout may have had a special relationship with LBJ too. For instance, LBJ had close ties to Southern Methodist University where Bookhout did both his undergraduate and his law school studies. 

We know that Bookhout sent an "interdepartment" telegram to J. Edgar Hoover the Monday before the assassination. That's just 4 days before. It's part of the official record that he sent it, but nobody knows what the telegram contained. 

In his WC testimony, Bookhout said that on 11/22 he had gone to the Mercantile Bank on Main Street next to Dealey Plaza to conduct personal business, and when he emerged from the bank, JFK was soon to pass, so Bookhout waited for it, but he never laid eyes on JFK because there were people in front of him. Do you think that could happen to this guy?

I don't think so. But, I digress. Getting back to Bookhout, he next said that after news spread about the shooting that he decided that even though he wasn't officially on duty that he  had better go to FBI headquarters to find out if he could be useful. But, he never got there because along the way he ran into two agents who passed a message on to him from the superiors that Bookhout needed to proceed to City Hall to be the FBI liaison to the Dallas Police for the investigation. But, I want you to consider that Bookhout may have made that up about running into the two agents. He didn't name them. And why would the superiors presume that the two agents were going to run into Bookhout? What were the odds of it? Maybe it was all arranged in advance that he would go to City Hall to be liaison. I mean well before the shots were fired. Is the reason why the contents of Bookhout's telegram to J. Edgar Hoover has never been disclosed because it hinted at what was to come, revealing foreknowledge?   

But, what I really want to talk about is the willingness of all these law enforcement officers to be involved in an act of murder, the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. And just as bad, and maybe worse, in my opinion, is what they did to Jack Ruby, which was frame him for the murder and manipulate him into thinking that he did it. Jack Ruby went from being King of the World, or at least King of Dallas to having the worst existence possible, being incarcerated, losing everything, being prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to death, and in all probability killed. It would have been better for him if they had just killed him on 11/24/63. 

But, let's look at this from the psychological standpoint because these weren't a bunch of gangsters; they were police officers; and we're talking about murder. Now, in Oswald's case, they may have really thought that he did it: killed Kennedy and Tippit; and therefore, he had it coming. But, what about Ruby? What had he done? How could they justify destroying his life? And that's where I am baffled because he had always been nice to them. My impression is that his cozy relationship with the Dallas Police is one of the things he valued most in his life. He was proud of it, and he considered it an honor that they saw him as a friend. So, the only thing I can say is that they must have looked at it as collateral damage, just like in the military. And keep in mind that those Dallas police officers and detectives were mostly ex-military. They may have all been ex-military.  But, the thing is: Jack Ruby was NOT collateral damage.  They targeted him, and you can't call someone you target collateral damage.