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

Today, the 54th anniversary of the JFK assassination, a ridiculous thing is circulating about Jack Ruby. You can read it, but know that it is 100% bull shit:

(CBSDFW.COM/CBSNEWS) – An FBI informant told officials that Jack Ruby, the man who eventually shot Lee Harvey Oswald, said to “watch the fireworks” on the day President John F. Kennedy was killed, according to new records the National Archives released Friday.

New records – first highlighted by University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato — describe what an FBI informant later told officials about Ruby. Oswald shot and killed JFK on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. The interaction on the morning of the JFK assassination wasn’t officially relayed to the FBI until March 1977, and the informant was eventually revealed to be Bob Vanderslice of Dallas.

“The informant stated that on the morning of the assassination, Ruby contacted him and asked if he would ‘like to watch the fireworks,'” an FBI record dated April 6, 1977, says. “He was with Jack Ruby and standing at the corner of the Postal Annex Building facing the Texas School Book Depository Building at the time of the shooting. Immediately after the shooting, Ruby left and headed toward the area of the Dallas Morning News Building.”

Vanderslice told the FBI in 1977 that Ruby said nothing to him immediately after the assassination. But the informant said that after Ruby was arrested for killing Oswald, he was also arrested on an unrelated charge, and Vanderslice got to know Ruby better in the Dallas County Jail.

Ralph Cinque: It's stupid. Don't you think that everyone who was involved in the assassination was on a "need to know" footing? Meaning that you didn't tell anyone or discuss it with anyone except those who were involved, who had a role in it?  

So, why would Jack Ruby tell this Vanderslice fellow? What did he need to do that for? Just so that he could have someone to watch it with? Why assume that Jack Ruby (or any of those who were actually involved) would be so flippant about it?  

And what about Vanderslice? He got arrested for an unrelated charge, and it must have been pretty serious since he didn't get out on bail. He remained in jail. But, if he had secret information about Jack Ruby, why didn't he use it at the time? You know; bargain with it? Jack Ruby claimed to be in the Dallas Morning News building during the assassination, not at the corner of the Postal Annex Building, facing the TSBD. And if Ruby was there to "watch the firworks" wouldn't he  place himself closer to the action than Houston and Commerce, which is where that building is? That was a block and a half from Houston and Main, where the limo entered the top of Dealey Plaza, and it was a long way from the Kill Zone. Did Ruby bring binoculars? 

It's all bull shit. Don't you see? From the start, they were luring people to believe that Ruby was involved in the JFK killing so that his supposed shooting of Oswald would be explained and motivated. And they are still doing it. They want you to believe that because it will take you further away from the truth, which is that Ruby was innocent.