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

A person who is physically violent usually has a violent personality. He tends to be aggressive, combative, explosive, and abusive, just as matter of course. But, we got to witness Jack Ruby for three years, and I, personally, have never seen a more docile person. When someone corrected him, he never argued; he would just accept it. He never lost his temper. Violent people tend to lose their temper. One time in front of a judge, WHEN HIS LAWYER WAS TRYING TO CONVINCE THE JUDGE NOT TO LET HIM SPEAK BECAUSE HE WAS OUT OF HIS MIND, Ruby got a little irate with his lawyer. But, just imagine how you would react if YOUR lawyer did that. Ruby was gentle about it compared to how I would be. The first words out of my mouth to that lawyer would be, "You're fired!" But, Ruby didn't even say it in a nice way. Ruby was soft. He wasn't putting on an act for three years. It was his nature. The idea that he was killing people and throwing people down the stairs, male and female, is ridiculous. He was not aggressive. I'm aggressive. I know what it's like to be aggressive. So, you can take it from an aggressive guy that he was not aggressive. He was innocent. He didn't kill Oswald, and he didn't have it in him to kill Oswald. Jack Ruby was so non-aggressive, that he didn't even get aggressive when police told him he shot Oswald even though he had no memory and no awareness and no intention of doing it. The average person would have said, "What??? You are out of your mind! I did NOT shoot him. You are a fucking liar. You all are. I don't know what the hell this is about. I don't know why you are accusing me. But, if you think you are going to get me to admit it, you are insane. I know what I did and didn't do, and I did not shoot him."

But, Jack Ruby was so non-aggressive, he couldn't even defend himself when he was accused of a heinous act that he didn't do. He was SO SUBMISSIVE that he believed it just because his beloved Dallas Police told him so. Jack Ruby was spineless. He had no back bone. The idea that he could shoot anybody is preposterous. He'd be the last man on Earth who could.

Jack Ruby showed up early at the basement. There was no shot. They just jumped him and dragged him upstairs. Then they told him he shot Oswald, and he didn't have personal, constitutional foundation to fight them. I wish I could have given him some of mine.