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

It's noteworthy that the last thing Ruby said in his so-called "death bed confession" that if he hadn't made an illegal left turn, he never would have met his fate. I know what he meant. He was driving east on Main from Dealey Plaza. He passed City Hall on the left. A little past it was the WU office on the left. There was a parking lot right next to it, and he turned left through a double yellow line to enter the parking lot. 

But, consider the irony: IT WASN'T EVEN ILLEGAL. In Texas, a double yellow line only means that you absolutely cannot pass, not that you cannot turn left. 

Jack Ruby, what a poor soul. The idea that he would have had it in him to shoot Oswald when he was in the custody of Dallas Police, to usurp these officers whom he admired so much, is ridiculous.
The idea that he was a hit man, a mobster, a gun runner, and all that stuff is just ridiculous. He was just a guy running a couple night clubs for whom the biggest thrill in his life was that he was on a chummy, first name basis with the Dallas Police, and otherwise he was very devoted to his family and also to his religious faith as a Jew. That was Jack Ruby. That is who he was. Nothing else and nothing more. 

And the facts should tell you that he had no thought whatsoever of shooting Oswald. Anyone who thinks that Ruby went there to do it is being a complete fool. If he went there to do it, he would have not have brought his beloved dog along. He obviously expected to come back to her.  If he went there to do it, he would have shown up at the expected time. And if he went there to do it, it's highly unlikely that he would be absorbed in sending a $25 money wire to somebody. The seque between the two doesn't fit. It's like: "Pick up some milk, get the dry cleaning, kill Oswald." 

So, Ruby, undoubtedly, did not conspire with anyone to kill Oswald- not even with himself. He even made a joke about it. "No one knew about it. Not even me." It's in his narrative. 

So, how could that jury find him guilty of murder and sentence him to death when there was no premeditation? And what his lawyer, Melvin Belli, argued to the jury, made the most sense if he, in fact, had done it. Belli was incapable of thinking outside the box. But, he believed Ruby when he told him that he had no thought of shooting Oswald and only knew about it when police told him that he did it.  So, Belli did the Math, and that's what he came up with. If only Belli could have realized that the police were the bad guys in this situation- the lying bad guys. 

And it's easy to understand why Belli was so enraged when the jury sentenced Ruby to death. What were they thinking? That Ruby was lying about having no premeditation? And really, he had no motive either. Why didn't they realize that Ruby had no way of knowing that the jail transfer was delayed? 

So, what people are left with today is the choice between Belli's scenario that Ruby had a compulsive urge that suddenly came over him which he could not control or suppress, which was was spontaneous, unplanned, and according to Belli, done totally unconsciously, which really takes it to the limit of credibility, or, you can believe as I do that Ruby was innocent, and the reason he could not remember shooting Oswald is simply because he didn't shoot him.