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

So, the alternative story, that Ruby shot Oswald because the Mafia threatened to kill him or his sister, is ridiculous. You wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. Nobody would. But, the official story, that he shot Oswald to spare Jackie a trip to Dallas to testify at Oswald's trial, is just as ridiculous. 

First, why would she have to testify? What could Jackie say that had any bearing on Oswald's guilt or innocence? It's not as though she turned around and saw Oswald in the window. So, the very premise is false.

But, if Ruby had ANY motive for shooting Oswald, he would have showed up on time (10 AM). So, it's really quite impossible to assign any motive to him- even an irrational one, because no matter what it was, he would have showed up on time. Who shows up late for a planned murder?   

But, the idea that he did it for Jackie didn't come from Ruby. It came from his first attorney, whom he later fired, Tom Howard. There is a famous memo in which Ruby asked Melvin Belli, who took over Ruby's defense, whether he should stick to what Tom Howard told him to say, which is that he shot Oswald to spare Jackie. 

And look at the defense that Melvin Belli used, that Ruby shot Oswald in a state of "psychomotor epilepsy" in which he had no awareness of doing it and no memory of doing. 

Excuse me, but how can a person have a motive for doing something he is not aware that he did? But, even more important, why would Belli use that defense? He could not have made it up. Remember that even the defense counsel is an officer of the court, and he could get disbarred for falsely making up a defense. So, in telling the jury that Ruby shot Oswald without being aware of it, he must have believed it. The idea didn't come from him; it's what Ruby told him. And, I'm sure it went something like this:

BELLI: Now, tell me everything you remember about shooting Oswald, Jack.
RUBY: I don't remember anything. I don't remember shooting him. I just remember going down there, then suddenly, the police pounced on me, pushing me down to the ground. Then, they dragged me upstairs. And that's when they told me that I shot Oswald.
BELLI: So, you don't have any memory of taking out your gun, and rushing Oswald, and shooting him at very close range?
RUBY: No, not at all. I have no memory of doing it, and I have no memory of thinking about doing it or wanting to do it. I never had any such thought. 
BELLI: Well, we know you did it because we can see you doing it in the films and photos. (RC: If Belli had looked closely at the films and photos, and with a critical mind, he would have realized that the shooter was shorter than Ruby, fatter than Ruby, had very different hair, had a stubbier neck, etc. etc.) But, I believe you, and that means that you must have blanked out. It's like you were sleepwalking or in a hypnotic trance. I am going to seek medical advice about what to call it. But, that is going to be our defense: that you did it without realizing it, without willing it, without being aware of it, without wanting to do it.

So, they must have had a conversation like that, and it is a pity that Belli couldn't get over his "Americana" sickness, that his mind was incapable to going to the mental space of considering that the Dallas Police were corrupt and lying. 

Ruby had a lot of lawyers, but none of them could get to the mental space of realizing that Ruby had no memory of shooting Oswald because he didn't shoot him. 

And look how Melvin Belli reacted when the guilty verdict and death sentence came down. He erupted. He made a scene. Defendants get convicted and sentenced to death all the time, don't they? And their lawyers don't go berserk. But, Belli did. Why? It's because he knew Ruby. Unlike the jury, he had close, personal conversations with him, and he knew that Ruby wasn't lying. 

And really, it is an outrage that Ruby should have been sentenced to death when the very same prosecutor, Henry Wade, had boasted and bragged about his intention and certainty of putting Oswald to death, himself. Presumably, Oswald was the worst person who ever lived, the most depraved assassin in the history of assassins. So, how do you put his killer to death? 

And Ruby's lack of a credible motive is not the only incredulity in the case. What is just as non-credible is the claim that Ruby got past Officer Roy Vaughn at the ramp. We are talking about an 8 foot wide ramp, and Roy Vaughn being a 29 year old, able-bodied policeman.   

I was at Wal-Mart the other day, and as I was leaving, a male employee who had to be in his late 80s, who was standing there leaning on some kind of walker, plus he was on oxygen. I could see the breathing tube in his nose. But, there he was, guarding that exit, inspecting your receipt, and scratching it with a yellow marker- just like they do at Costco. And I guarantee you that nobody was going to get past him unseen. And yet we're supposed to believe that Ruby got past Vaughn? 

No, no, no. Vaughn was set up. He was the other fall guy that day. They hustled Ruby upstairs, then right after that, they placed Vaughn in the ramp to guard it. They used him. They exploited him. They targeted him to be the fall guy; to take the blame. 

The depth and magnitude of the evil involved is breathtaking because the Dallas Police had to be the ones who killed Oswald and (and I don't mean in the garage), and what they did to Jack Ruby was worse than killing him. If they had killed him right away, it would have been merciful compared to what they did to him. 

I really mean it that this is the deepest, darkest secret of police corruption in the history of police, and it may be the deepest, darkest secret of the U.S. government because I have no doubt that the order to it had to come from newly sworn-in President Lyndon Baines Johnson, monster that he was. If there is a Hell, you can be God-damn sure that that rat-bastard LBJ is there.