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

 

This is the only image we have of the face of the Garage Shooter, and you can see that he's not Jack Ruby. But, notice that no one is securing him. No one has him by the arm to make sure he doesn't go anywhere or do something. Is he even handcuffed? It's hard to tell. I suppose he might be, but not necessarily. But, even if he is handcuffed, they still wouldn't let him stand untethered to a cop. Somebody would have a hold on him- always.  Remember, he was a killer, and it was just two minutes before that he was struggling with cops. According to Leavelle, after shooting Oswald, Ruby tried to shoot him, and he owed his life to Graves. So, how could Boyd and Hall just have their backs to "Ruby"? And even Sims seems unconcerned. None of them were afraid that "Ruby" was going to try to do something, to further his violent rampage. How could you trust someone like the Garage Shooter, when just a few minutes before, he was in the throes of homicide? You can see that Boyd and Hall are concerned with the photographer. That's where their minds are. They're not concerned about "Ruby" at all. They know very well that they have nothing to fear from him, and that's because he was James Bookhout. They were there to protect him, and it was shortly after this that they let him go, and he went back to being James Boohkout again. This is not a normal picture of cops and a perp being hauled off to jail. It's more like they are posing at a family gathering or class reunion.  Except: Boyd and Hall aren't smiling because they really don't want to be in the picture.