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

I was wrong about something. Dallas City Hall was located down Main Street, east of Dealey Plaza. I thought that if you were driving east on Main Street that you got to the Western Union store before you got to Dallas City Hall, but I was mistaken. You passed City Hall before you got to WU. Ruby said as he was walking towards City Hall, he saw a policeman on foot leaning in and talking to Lt. Rio Pierce at the top of the ramp, and his back to Ruby. I thought that Ruby was coming from the other direction, from the west, but he was coming from the east, the Pearl Street side. And since Officer Roy Vaughn said he went to the east side of the ramp, the Pearl Street side, then Ruby would have seen his back if he was doing that, leaning in talking to Pierce. BUT, VAUGHN NEVER CLAIMED TO DO THAT. Vaughn claimed that as the squad car was pulling up, he just stepped aside, and walked onto the sidewalk, and seeing that the traffic was clear, he waved Pierce out. And that was it. He didn't stop to talk to him, and he didn't lean into his car. 

So, the point is that the mechanics were right that Ruby could have seen it if it happened, but there is no reason to think it did because there is no evidence that Vaughn did it. 

Vaughn said that he guarded the ramp by standing 2 or 3 feet deep into it and that nobody got by him. Can we give the man credit for being able to tell if someone was walking by him on an 8 foot wide ramp that he was guarding? And when he stepped out of the ramp to get out of Pierce's way, he continued to watch the ramp, and he said that his eyes were off the ramp for no more than an "instant." Jacky Ruby would have had to be invisible to get past Vaughan. But, it wasn't just Vaughn. There was another policeman there, albeit a former one, N.J. Daniels.

Mr. HUBERT. On what side of the. ramp was Daniels?
Mr. VAUGHN. He would be on the east side, toward Pearl Street there.

So, both Vaughn and Daniel were on the Pearl Street side of the ramp, the side that Ruby approached from. It means that Ruby would have to get past both of them unseen. 

How many people were there? Vaughn said at most 6. 

Mr. HUBERT. Were there many people standing around that entrance?
Mr. VAUGHN. No, sir; I would say at most, I believe, at most it would be a haft dozen, I think, who were standing there.

But, this is how they depicted it in the tv movie Ruby and Oswald.

Look at that mob. There was no reason for anyone to be there. It was an incoming ramp, so who were they waiting to see pulling in? Nobody. That mob wasn't there, but the few men who were there, were just there to be Ruby magnets. Now, in making this propaganda movie, they had to sell this shit, and look what they did. Notice that there is a blue vehicle of some kind parked in the street, and there are so many men there, some of them are standing in the street. But that is ridiculous. That is the very lane that traffic used. You couldn't have those men in the street or that wagon. But, it had a purpose. 

Where are those men standing in the upper right where you see the question marks, and why does the background look blue? They would have to be in the street. And what happened to the wagon? THE PURPOSE OF THIS WAS TO EXTEND THE DISTANCE TO THE STREET, SO THAT VAUGHN HAS FURTHER TO GO, GIVING RUBY MORE TIME TO GET IN. 

Recall that Vaughn said he had his eyes off the ramp for no more than an instant. Seven seconds after Ruby started making his move to enter the ramp, this is where he was.

So, even if Vaughn had his eyes off the ramp for 7 seconds, he would have still seen Ruby's back when he returned his eyes to it. What it means is that Vaughn was right, that there was zero chance that Ruby got by him. Listen to Vaughn:

Mr. HUBERT. Do you think it would have been possible for anyone to enter the basement who was approaching the Main Street ramp from Pearl Street or the Western Union direction, while the Pierce car was exiting?
Mr. VAUGHN. No; I don't believe it would.
Mr. HUBERT. And why do you say that?
Mr. VAUGHN. Because--due to the fact--the time, the period of time like I said, I had a view of the ramp from the period of time the car actually come out, and I waved it on and walked back to the ramp.
Mr. HUBERT. Now, you know, of course, that Ruby says that's the way he got in?
Mr. VAUGHN. Yes, I realize that.
Mr. HUBERT. What is your opinion about that statement?
Mr. VAUGHN. I don't believe he did.
Mr. HUBERT. You think he got in some other way?
Mr. VAUGHN. I don't know definitely, but I'll say he didn't come in at the ramp. How he got in--that, I don't know, but I know--I don't believe that he came in the ramp.
Mr. HUBERT. Is it your opinion beyond any reasonable doubt, and I think you are familiar with that phrase as an officer, aren't you?
Mr. VAUGHN. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. That Ruby did not enter the basement through the ramp while you were there?
Mr. VAUGHN. Yes, sir.
Mr. HUBERT. Is that opinion so strong that if you were a juror, for example, you would convict a man or acquit him, whichever it would be, on the basis of your statement that he did not enter at that ramp?
Mr. VAUGHN. Well, now, What do you mean by that?
Mr. HUBERT. That's the reasonable doubt test, you see.
Mr. VAUGHN. You mean as far as I am concerned--as far as what I think about it, that I definitely do not think the man come down that ramp.
Mr. HUBERT. But I was testing the strength of your view.
Mr. VAUGHN. Well, I don't quite understand or follow you?
Mr. HUBERT. Well, here's what I had in mind--I'll put it this way--do you have the moral conviction that Jack Ruby did not enter the basement through the Main Street ramp to the degree that if that were an issue in a case on which you were a juror, you would say that it is beyond a reasonable doubt that he did not enter that way?
Mr. VAUGHN. So far as the knowledge I have of it--no, sir---I do not. I think if the question is that you think I would convict him on the doubt---of the knowledge that I have that he did not enter that ramp--yes, sir, I would.

Ruby and Vaughn were both telling the truth. Ruby DID get in that way, and Vaughn DID keep the ramp secure. There is no conflict between them. THEY WERE THERE AT DIFFERENT TIMES. Ruby was there and got in before Vaughn ever began his shift. Vaughn was set up. There is NO other possibility. If you try to say that Ruby passed Vaughn, that Vaughn actually missed sighting him, then get out a rag and start wiping Kennedy's and Oswald's blood off your hands and face because, in light of all this, you would have to be bloodied to say such a thing.