Bob Vanderslice was Fuhlendorf's informant, and he provided information about Dallas bookies which led to numerous arrests.
And, I found out what kind of criminal Vanderslice was: a burglar and a fraudster. He was repeatedly jailed in the 1960s for theft and fraud.
So, isn't it odd that Vanderslice, who was a career criminal, also did informing about illegal bookies to the FBI? And I presume that he got paid for the information he provided, because why else would he do it? Especially since he was a criminal. Helping the FBI was just his sideline.
Vanderslice did time in Huntsville 3x in the 1960s, and Huntsville is like our Alcatraz.
The memo states:
"Vanderslice told the FBI that after Ruby was arrested for killing Oswald, he was also arrested on an unrelated criminal charge and got to know him better at the Dallas County Jail."
But, the memo goes further claiming that Ruby was afraid that his jailers were poisoning his food, and Vanderslice became his food taster.
Oh, come on, that is ridiculous. Ruby did not eat with the prison population. He didn't do anything with them. And if he was afraid that his food was being poisoned, why would Bob Vanderslice taste it for him? You can't tell me that Ruby was paying him because he didn't have any money. So, why would Vanderslice do it? And what basis would he have to know what they were or weren't doing to Ruby's food? Where did his certainty come from?
It is just ridiculous. It is another incredulity in a story that is full of them.
And then, the really weird thing is that Agent Fuhlendorf said he never believed any of the stories Vanderslice told him.
"Vanderslice was a big ol' boy in stature, and had a bunch of good stories to listen to if you had the time to listen to 'em," Fuhlendorf said. "But very few did I ever buy into."
So, it begs the question: why write the memo at all? Answer: the HSCA.
"Fuhlendorf was hesitant to repeat Vanderslice's story, believing it a fantasy told by a con artist, and asked a committee staffer if he could skip submitting his informant's tall tale. He was told to put it on paper anyway."
"If it had been left up to my judgment, and I have pretty poor judgment, I wouldn't have even sent the memo to Washington to bother them with it, " Fuhlendorf says. "That's how little I thought of the accuracy of the information in it. It's interesting that somebody's interested in it nowadays."
And here's the epilogue:
"Fuhlendorf told Vanderslice the FBI was looking for him, and that he'd probably be flown to D.C. to testify in front of the committee, which is probably why he never showed up and avoided the FBI agents who tried to find him. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice says he died in August 1978 while out on parole."
"I wasn't the first person to call about the memo. Years ago, a filmmaker with a "real foreign name" called from Europe to tell Fuhlendorf he was making a movie based on his memo. He told the former IRS agent that 'I was going to be instrumental in solving the Kennedy assassination' Fuhlendorf said between big, big laughs."
So now, it's pretty clear that the whole story was never credible nor newsworthy. But fast forward to 2018, and you had all these major new outlets, including CBS News, harping on it and reporting the claim matter-of-factly, claiming without qualification and without reservation that an FBI memo had Ruby watching the motorcade with Vanderslice and preparing him to watch the fireworks, even though there is very solid, irrefutable evidence that Ruby did not watch the motorcade at all.
So, what was this about in 2018? Why did all these news outlets do it? They did it because peppering the lore of Jack Ruby has been part of the operation all along. Building a false and bogus bio for Jack Ruby got started on Day 1, no, before Day 1.
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