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

This is a very interesting communication from my old friend whom I all The Wizard. It's about Sassa, the Japanese journalist who just happened to be right next to "Jack Ruby" in the garage (who was really James Bookhout). 

So, that's Sassa and above him is Blackie Henderson, and emerging from in-between them a few seconds later would be James Bookhout masquerading as Jack Ruby. 

Dear Ralph,

I noted that Atsuyuki Sassa died last year at 87. This was the Japanese "reporter" who was arguably the closest witness to the Oswald shooting and who later became Japan’s Cabinet Security Chief. It transpires that he joined the forerunner to the National Police Agency in 1954, so we can take it for granted that his position as a reporter was a cover, despite briefly interviewing Henry Wade. He was also filmed a few feet from Ruby in and leaving the DPD basement assembly room on the Friday night. 

I am still not sure exactly what was going on with regard to Ruby on the Friday night, other than the fact that it was unwholesome.

An interesting detail: Sassa's father, Hiroo Sassa, was an outspoken Marxist anti-fascist academic who warned about the threat of corporate fascism in Japan in the early 1930s. After WWII the Americans did the Japanese equivalent of de-nazification, and the Sassa family anti-Imperialist stance might have been important in the son's selection for the Japanese security services. The US occupation lasted for ten years. Of course, by that time the CIA had Communists to worry about.

RC: Regarding Jack Ruby at the Friday Night Press Conference, Ruby was definitely there because he admitted going there to deliver sandwiches to the detectives. And when Sims turned him down about that, he decided to give them to the tv crew who was covering the event. But, did Ruby ever actually attend the Midnight Press Conference? Listen to Ruby's "last confession." At 2:50, he says that he had never known Oswald or seen him before. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VjbE0Y2YMg&t=39s

Why would he say that if he had seen him at the Midnight Press Conference? How could he forget about such a thing? He couldn't. He wouldn't. He didn't. 

The Wizard has already shown us that this image of Ruby is fake, that it was pieced in. 

Then there is  this one, but look who is there, just one person away from Ruby: Sassa.

So, is that guy Ruby?

Well, for sure, he's got a lot more hair than Ruby, but then again, practically all of Ruby's images are doctored to give him more hair. 

Well, I can't say I see any dealbreakers there, but isn't it weird how mask-like Ruby's face is on the left? Look at the sharp instant transition from white pasty face to dark neck. And it's not really following his jawline either because the jawline goes up to the ear. So, I just don't know about that photo. 

Ruby was definitely at the PD late Friday night. That is beyond dispute. But, did he really lay eyes on Oswald? The fact that he denied it weighs heavily on me because I don't think Jack Ruby lied about anything. I don't think he was capable of lying.