Even before the JFK assassination, the CIA knew that some people were going to reject the lone nut story. So, they concocted an alternate story which I call Government Story #2. If you don’t like Government Story #1, that Oswald did it alone, then try out Government Story #2 that Oswald did it, and there may have been other shooters, and they were all working for the Mafia. And that is exactly what the HSCA declared in their final report, although, they kept it simple by making it just one other shooter.  

I find it amusing because the HSCA never claimed that Oswald got paid by the Mafia. So what exactly was Oswald’s incentive to kill Kennedy for them?  

In reality, there is no proof that the Mafia had any role whatsoever in the JFK assassination. Were any of the shooters from the Mafia? Some people believe so, but they have no proof. Some people believe James Files’ claim that he was the Grassy Knoll shooter. I’m not one of those people.

It made no sense for the CIA to get any shooters from the Mafia because if they did, then the Mafia would have had dirt on the CIA. Why would the CIA want to reveal to the Mafia that they were killing Kennedy? How could the CIA trust the Mafia? What could the Mafia do with that information? I think it’s more likely that the CIA just started the rumor that there were Mafia shooters, figuring that the rumor would work just as well for them as the fact.

Therefore, why would the Mafia want Oswald dead? What could Oswald tell investigators about the Mafia? Absolutely nothing. Oswald didn’t have a stitch of information about the Mafia. He had nothing whatsoever to do with the Mafia. So, why would the Mafia give a rat’s ass what Oswald said?  

And what is also ridiculous is that Oswald had already undergone 13 hours of interrogation. If he knew anything at all about Mafia complicity, don’t you think he would have said so within 13 hours?  

Nobody ordered Ruby to shoot Oswald. Ruby was just tricked into going there. The perpetrators got Karen Carlin to beg Ruby to go to Western Union to wire her $25. That got him within a block. But, what they also did was line the Main Street ramp entrance with spectators who would catch Ruby’s attention. Those spectators had no reason to be there. It was an incoming ramp. So, who were they waiting for to arrive? Elvis? No!  I’ll tell you who they were waiting for to arrive: it was Jack Ruby.  They were there to be a magnet for Ruby.

Ruby was drugged up more than usual. His doctor had put him on amphetamines. Who was his doctor? We don’t know. Why don’t we know? That’s a good question. We know who Ruby’s rabbi was but not his doctor.

I suspect that someone in Western Union or at Western Union (meaning on the street) casually said to Ruby that he should go down and check out what was happening at the ramp. And Ruby did. Then, the spectators, who were there to attract him, casually nudged him down the ramp. This was about an hour before, and at the time, Lt. Rio Sam Pierce was parked at the top of the ramp; he too waiting for Ruby. And there was an officer on foot, but he wasn’t Roy Vaughn. Vaughn was waiting up at the dispatch office, drinking coffee and chewing the cud with other officers.

So, Ruby went down there to the basement. Then he was jumped by the police. Then they hustled him up to the 5^th floor, where they told him that he shot Oswald.

Meanwhile, Sergeant Patrick Dean went and got Vaughn and ordered him to guard the Main Street ramp. It was all over already for Ruby, but they needed a fall guy, and the fall guy was Roy Vaughn. But, Vaughn turned out to be a fighter. He sued the Dallas PD for claiming that Ruby got past him, but they settled with him out of court. They paid him money. I don’t know how much he got because it wasn’t disclosed.

There was no Mafia order for Ruby to shoot Oswald. There was no such order from anyone. Ruby was mentally impaired, and he was drugged. He may have been hypnotized. And putting it all together, I like to say that he was MK-ULTRA’d. He wasn’t a mind-controlled assassin; he was just a mind-controlled patsy. He was tricked into believing that he shot Oswald.

But, this was perhaps the most Machiavellian plot of all time. It’s not just that they brainwashed Ruby into thinking that he shot Oswald; they brainwashed everybody. And putting Ruby into the Mafia was part of the brainwashing.

Are you aware that Ruby was very active in his temple in Dallas? That he was a very devout Jew? He was not a Mafioso. The whole claim was a vicious lie that was concocted to distance people from the truth that Jack Ruby was innocent; he did not shoot Oswald.  

 The Prosecution charged Ruby with premediated murder, and they got him convicted and sentenced to death. The Defense claimed the Ruby shot Oswald involuntarily and unknowingly, that he had no awareness of doing it. Why did they claim that? It’s because that's what Ruby told them, that he had no thought to shoot Oswald and no memory of doing it. He said that all he could remember was going to the garage, standing there, and then being jumped upon by the police. Melvin Belli even put a medical label on Ruby’s condition, calling it “psychomotor epilepsy.” That, I think, was a mistake because it had no credibility.

But, the biggest mistake that Belli made was not putting Ruby on the stand. Ruby would have been a fabulous witness for himself. His childlike personality, his scattered thinking, and his visible decency would have come through loud and clear. There was nothing the Prosecution could have done to trap him up.

It’s ironic that, over time, the Defense case has prevailed. When they made the tv movie Ruby and Oswald in 1978, they made it that Ruby never plotted to kill Oswald, and nobody put him up to do it. He was just there; he got deranged; he shot Oswald without knowing it; then they took him upstairs and told him that he did it. That was the story they sold in 1978.

However, the alternate story became that Ruby was a Mafioso, and the Mafia ordered him to shoot Oswald. That is ridiculous. First, why would the Mafia need to shoot Oswald when they had nothing to do with Oswald? And they had little or nothing to do with the JFK assassination. Were there Mafia shooters? My friend John Hankey doesn’t think so, and he did the greatest piece of investigational research in his analysis of the murder of JFK Jr. I don’t claim to know who the shooters were. But, if the CIA brought in any Mafia shooters into it, it’s not because they had to. If they did it- and again, the operative word is “if”- it was just to paint it as a Mafia operation for looks. But, it was not a Mafia operation; it was a CIA operation. And regardless, even then, the Mafia had no reason to kill Oswald. So, the whole idea that Mafia forced Ruby to shoot Oswald is ridiculous.

And when did they order Ruby to do it? We know every move Ruby made the last 4 days of his life. We know every person he talked to. We know every phone call he made and received. So, when and how did they issue this order to Ruby?

But, shooting Oswald in a crowd of police meant instant capture and certain conviction and the utter and complete destruction of Ruby’s life. It was almost like ordering him to kill himself because it meant him losing everything he lived for. So, why would he do it? What was he afraid was going to happen if he didn’t do it? What was the Mafia going to do to him? Kill him? So what? That wouldn’t have been worse.

Some people claim that the Mafia threatened to kill his sister Eve. How do they know that? There is no evidence for it. So, how did they come up with it? They made it up. That's how they came up with it.

But, even if the Mafia did threaten to kill Ruby's sister, and again, there is no evidence for it, think about what he could have done. He could have immediately sought to get her to safety. And don’t tell me there is no way he could have hidden his sister. He could have gone to his friends in the DPD and told them about the threat. He could have told them who exactly made the threat. And since it’s a crime to make such a threat, the police could have gone and arrested that person.

What if the Mafia ordered you to kill someone and they threatened you or your sister? Are you going to go kill the person?

The story of Ruby killing Oswald for the Mafia makes no sense, neither from Ruby's perspective nor the Mafia's. It’s just a stupid, thoughtless idea by stupid, thoughtless people.

And Ruby was certainly not out to destroy his whole life. Did you know that he had plans for that Sunday afternoon? He was going to hang out at the swanky new apartment building that he would soon be moving into. It was called Something Tower. And he was telling people that this was going to be a big step up for him, that it had all the amenities; it had social activities, including parties, that he was finally going to start living the good life. Ruby was looking forward to the futrure.

The biggest secret of the JFK assassination is not that Oswald was innocent because that is no secret at all. That is plain as day. For Goodness sake, he was standing in the doorway of the Book Depository during the shooting. The biggest secret of the JFK assassination is that Jack Ruby was innocent of killing Oswald.  The sad truth is that everybody was bamboozled about this for 62 years. Of course, not everybody, because I and the people who follow me know that Ruby was innocent, and we’ve known it for over 10 years. I think it was about 2014 that I came to realize it. But, anyone who doesn't know that Jack Ruby was innocent might as well be completely in the dark about the JFK assassination.

 The fact that the Garage Shooter used his middle finger is like a 4-alarm blast telling us that something is terribly wrong with the official story of the Oswald shooting. Why would Jack Ruby use his middle finger? He never even shot a gun before in his life, that we know of.   And the gun in this case was a very small, snub-nosed Colt Cobra, for which there was no place to put his index finger except along the barrel, exposing it to the hot, fiery gases that emit from the cylinder gap. One would have to be crazy to shoot that gun with one’s middle finger.

And why in the Jackson photo is the Shooter’s middle finger sticking out so far? You wrap your finger around the trigger. It’s not going to stick out.  They did that because they wanted it to be seen. They thought that Ruby had lost his right index finger and would have had to use his middle finger. But actually, Ruby had lost most of his left index finger. So, he had no reason to use the middle finger of his right hand.

The middle finger on the trigger is only seen in the Beers and Jackson photos, and they were both staged. They were not taken during the televised spectacle, but rather, beforehand, when there was no shot. I presume there was a shot during the spectacle, but it was just a blank, and Oswald was shot for real afterwards. And I presume that Bookhout used his index finger to fire the blank. Why not? They already got the pictures they wanted.

Ruby’s lawyers were aware that the photos showed the middle finger. They asked Ruby if he knew why he used his middle finger, and he said he didn’t know anything. He did not remember shooting Oswald. He only remembered getting down there, being jumped by the cops and not knowing why, and then being taken up to the 5^th floor where he was told that he shot Oswald. So, he couldn’t tell them anything about how it went down.

So, why didn’t his lawyers consider that what Ruby remembered was exactly what happened? Why didn’t they consider that the Dallas Police were lying, that they were framing Ruby after they killed Oswald?  

The answer is that his lawyers suffered from a common mental illness that I call Americana. It’s the belief that terrible things are done by the police in the Soviet Union and Communist China, but not in the United States. His lawyers didn’t have anyone else to go to but Ruby- unless they went to the Dallas Police. And they just didn’t have the capacity to do it or even see it, that the Dallas Police killed Oswald. All they had to do was look closely at the images of the Garage Shooter, and they would have seen that he wasn’t Ruby- and it’s all anyone has to do today. Then, all they had to do was listen to the lies that the Dallas Police told, such as Jim Leavelle, who said that he saw Ruby coming in and recognized him, and that he reacted by yanking on Oswald to get him behind him to protect him (which he clearly didn’t do) and then he thumped Ruby on his left shoulder with his right hand (which he clearly didn’t do). The films clearly show that Leavelle deliberately looked the other way, to avoid looking at the Shooter, and did not begin to respond to “Ruby” until after the shot was fired. Then, Leavelle said that he and another man, whom he couldn’t remember, picked Oswald up and carried him into the police station. So, that meant that there was an object consisting of two men carrying another man. Shouldn’t that have been seen considering how big it was? And how was he able to pick up Oswald if he was handcuffed to him at the wrist?

Some people have promoted the lie that Ruby used his middle finger because it was the mark of a Mafia hit. But, that is ridiculous. First, it’s not even true. And second, Ruby wasn’t even in the Mafia. All the stories you have heard about that are lies. And those lies were invented by the same people who were behind Oswald’ s and JFK’s murders. And they were very Machiavellian. They knew, in advance, that some people were going to challenge their story about how Oswald was killed. So, they wrote the alternate story themselves, making Ruby not just guilty, but super-guilty, in which he had a long criminal record in the Mafia as a hit man, pimp, and bruiser. They inserted Ruby not only into the Oswald shooting but also the JFK shooting, that he delivered guns to Dealey Plaza and watched the “fireworks” from Houston Street.  All of these were utter lies. Ruby was not in the Mafia.  His nightclubs, including the Carousel Club and the Vegas Club, were not Mafia nightclubs. You can watch Dan Rather interview Ruby’s magician and MC Bill DeMar, who was asked by Rather if Mafia types ever hung out there, and he said no, and acted surprised. He said it was actually a pretty wholesome place- with no gangster types.

There were lies galore about Ruby. One of them involved a Congressional letter about a Jack Rubenstein who was working for Richard Nixon in 1945. Was it the Jack Ruby of fame? No! It wasn’t any Jack Rubenstein. The whole thing was made up.  The letter included a zip code, but in 1945, there were no zip codes. Zip codes weren’t started until 1960. So, it was just more horse shit to concoct a false narrative about Ruby. You could write his real bio on the back of a cocktail napkin: He was born and raised in Chicago in a poor Jewish family.  He served 2 years in the Army Air Force from 1943 to 1945, in which he worked as an airplane mechanic. After the war, he returned to Chicago and worked with his grifter brothers in their various marketing schemes.  And then he moved to Dallas in 1947 to help his sister Eva with her nightclub. He fell in love with that business and with Dallas, and he stayed there doing it even after Eva moved to California. But, she eventually returned to Dallas, and he put her in charge of the Vegas Club. He made a few trips over the years. He visited a friend in Vegas who worked at a casino. And he spent a week in Cuba after being invited by a friend who worked at a casino there.  He was never a gunrunner to Cuba. He said that he once considered buying Army surplus jeeps and selling them to the Cuban government, but his lawyer talked him out of it. He never went to Chicago again. He was never involved with the Chicago Mob. There is a rumor that as a teenage boy he was an errand-runner for Al Capone.  But, Ruby never claimed that, and he would have said so if it were true. There is nothing bankable about that claim. And even if there were, it wouldn’t even matter because it never developed into anything. It’s just more horse shit.

By making Ruby into a gangster with a long criminal history, it covered up the truth that he was completely innocent. He was framed and innocent. He was drugged, framed, and innocent.

And they just got it wrong about his index finger. It was a production error. As a filmmaker, I know all about them.  They thought that him not having a right index finger was gold. What a stroke of luck to use that to pin it on him. But then, it blew up in their faces when the found out that it was his left index finger- not his right. And the same thing happened when people started noticing the discrepancy between the Shooter’s light socks and Ruby’s jet-black socks. So, they had to concoct the story that they changed his underwear. At a City Jail where defendants weren’t given any clothes at all and weren’t held past arraignment?

Jack Ruby was innocent! He was framed for shooting Oswald, but he was too dumb and too drugged-up to realize it. And they kept him drugged up via Dr. Louis Joylan West, the CIA’s “Maestro of Mind Control.”

You’ve been played like an instrument about this for 62 years. Are you going to snap out of it or not?

 

 This is Oswald talking to FBI Agent James Bookhout in the hallway outside the Homicide Bureau. It was Saturday evening, 6:24, and they were about to go in for the Saturday evening interrogation. Notice that Bookhout's facial features were obliterated, and that's because he was James Bookhout. Show me another face like this. You can't, unless the same thing was done to it. And notice how short Bookhout was. That's because he was short, just like the Garage Shooter. He was the Garage Shooter. My thanks to Dee McFarlane.

 This short video about VX nerve agent and other nerve agents is well worth watching. It reports that the US got heavily involved in nerve agent production after World War 2. We made 4400 tons of VX, which is enough to kill every person on this planet- and then some. And it states plainly that delivered through the skin, it starts working within seconds, causing covulsions- like the ones we see on Kennedy in the Zapruder film.

So, was it VX that they put in the ice dart that struck Kennedy in the back high on the hill? It may have been, and there is no doubt that it was some nerve agent. You can't account for his spastic dyskinesia any other way. It was not due to shock or trauma.

And it was progressive. It worsened as the seconds passed. I have to wonder if he would have died from it seizing up his respiratory muscles if he wasn't shot in the head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkbBnvz0rw0

 It is glaringly obvious that the Garage Spectacle was staged. On Sunday morning, Dallas cops went on Dallas talk radio saying that they feared that Oswald was going to be attacked during the Jail Transfer. Oh really? Then why were they doing it? Why not move him in the dead of night without any fanfare and just announce the next morning that he had been moved? How smart did they have to be to think of that? They said that that were dozens of calls from people threatening to kill Oswald. Oh really? Why would someone bent on murder forewarn the police? How does that make sense from the perspective of the criminal? What’s in it for them? One cop even said that he answered a call in which he could tell that the caller was Jack Ruby. Oh really? Then why didn’t he go pick up Ruby? It’s a crime to plot to kill someone. But, there’s no chance that it’s true. Ruby’s roommate George Senator testified to the Warren Commission, and he said that Ruby made no calls before leaving for Western Union.

Why is there a discrepancy between what Ruby said and what Roy Vaughn said/ Vaughn said that that Lt. Rio Sam Pierce didn’t stop, that he came up the ramp, which caused Vaughn to check for traffic and then wave him through. They didn’t speak. But, Ruby said that when he was there, that Pierce was parked at the top of the ramp, and the officer on foot was leaning into the window talking to him. And, he said that he didn’t recognize the officer on foot, while he knew Roy Vaugh. Vaughn had been to the Carousel Club on police business, and he also pulled Ruby over once for a traffic violation, but he let him off with just a warning, since he was a “friend of the Department.” That’s what Vaughn said. And Ruby was very good at remembering the names of Dallas cops.

So, what explains the discrepancy? Vaughn and Ruby were there at different times. Ruby was there first. And once he was tucked away up on the 5^th floor, Vaughn started his shift guarding the Main Street ramp. The whole idea was to frame him for, negligently, letting Ruby in. In other words, out of stupidity, rather than plotting. But, it turned out that Vaughn wasn’t so stupid. When he was issued a reprimand for letting Ruby in, he hired a lawyer and sued the Department. He knew God-damn well that Ruby never slipped by him. And the Department settled out of court. That is, they paid Vaughn money in damages. Vaughn went on to become the Police Chief of Midlothian, Texas, a mid-sized city. And after that, he went on to become a Municipal Judge, which he did until he died. And he swore, to his last breath, that Ruby never got past him.

Why didn’t the Dallas cops handcuff the Shooter in the garage? Why take him somewhere without first handcuffing him? He was violent, right? He killed somebody, right? So, why not get him in cuffs immediately. And their story was that after getting him into the Jail Office, several of the penguins, I mean, the detectives got the idea to handcuff him at the same time, but it was McMillan’s cuffs that went on him. They didn’t remove his jacket first. They just put him in handcuffs. Therefore, how is it that in the WFAA footage, which supposedly shows Ruby being taken upstairs for the first time, he is in just a shirt and no jacket?

The whole story is a lie. Ruby didn’t kill Oswald. He was just tricked into believing that he did. The Dallas Police killed Oswald. And I don’t say it was their idea. Rather, it was an order that they got from LBJ.  He was the Commander in Chief, and all Fritz’ men were WW2 vets except for Charles Dhority. When the Commander in Chief gives you an order, you obey it.

Why did the cops have the ambulance go all the way down to the Pearl Expressway, only to come back on Main from whence they came? They made a big loop. Why did they do that? To kill time so that Oswald would bleed out.  They had to make sure that it would be too late for doctors to save him.

Again: the whole story is a lie. The Dallas Police killed Oswald, and they tricked Ruby into believing that he did it. It had to be one of the worst things any Police Department ever did. It was the monstrous end to a monstrous weekend.

 I got to do another song with the legendary guitarist Rick McRae, who is the lead guitarist for George Strait. The song we did is the classic Bob Dylan tune, DON'T THINK TWICE IT'S ALL RIGHT. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iznhYIVBmb8