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

This is Jack Ruby's property invoice at the DPD, even though at the top it says "Received of jail." His name should have gone there. Note the date in the upper right: 25 Nov 1963. But, Ruby was arrested on the 24th. And they definitely confiscated his stuff on the  24th. The record shows that the first thing they did was strip him down to his underwear. An if you look towards the bottom of the list, it even states that they took from him "1 set underwear".

Well, I don't believe that. Do you? Do you really think they took Ruby's dirty underwear to put in one of their "bins"? I hope it was the hamper.  But no, they didn't do that. They just put that down because Ruby's black socks didn't not match the socks worn by the Garage Shooter, James Bookhout. If you check the Beers photo, you'll see that the shooter's socks were light. 

So, to rationalize that discrepancy, they put down that Ruby's underwear was changed. 

This was a city jail; not a prison. So, why would they replace a man's socks? And for one night? The very next morning Ruby was transferred to the County Jail. It's just insane.  

But, getting back to the date, it shouldn't say November 25, as it does. It should say November 24. That's because they took the stuff from him on the 24th, and they certainly would have recorded it then. How do you wait a day? That's untenable. 

And then what's with the bins? Bins designated by letters and numbers? I don't know about you but when I see a bin named "N30" I presume there is an N29, N28, N27, etc. And so on for all the other letters. 

This was a city jail. They typically held prisoners until they were arraigned by a judge, and then they were set free because the charges were dismissed, or let out on bail, or remanded without bail release and sent to the County Jail. But, any which way, they weren't staying in the City Jail. And remember that your right to a speedy arraignment is guaranteed by the Constitution. So, how could the DPD be filling all those bins? 

Then we get to the pink copy.

So, we're supposed to assume that that was carbon copy? But, you know how sloppy and dirty and blurred carbon copies tend to look, and that's because they are carbon copies. It does have the same number. But notice that there is writing on this one that is not on the other. Is that because they went to different places? But, what would be the point of writing on one without writing on all of them? Wouldn't that create confusion? And let's not forget about the beige copy. 

Notice that this one, like the white one, has N-30 bin crossed out and replaced with N-15. But, the pink one doesn't. It just says N-30. But, if the carbon copies went different places, how is it that beige one got corrected but the pink one didn't? And what I really mean is  how did the beige one get corrected at all? And of course, you see that big stamp at the lower right of the beige one, which is not on either of the other two. I don't know how any of this happened because Ruby was transferred to the County Jail the very next day and permanently. That was his home for the rest of his life. And they knew that it would be. So why would they leave his property with the police department? 

Look: this is all just a bunch of fakery to whitewash the fact that Ruby wore black socks and work shoes whereas Bookhout wore light socks and a high top shoe, while Bookhout wore light socks and a low top shoe. 

You see, they had to reconcile that, and the only way they could do it was to claim that the DPD provided Ruby with other socks and other shoes. Of course, you know they had a shoe department there, right? Doesn't every police department? They couldn't have their prisoners walking around in their own shoes. They needed regulation shoes. Of course, I called the Dallas Police Department and talked to the jailer, who told me, in a rather irritated tone, that they do not provide any clothes to prisoners. Of course they don't. It's the city jail, not the State Pen.