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

Something I have heard, over and over again, for decades, is that Jack Ruby was threatened by the Mafia that if he didn't kill Oswald, they would kill his sister. There isn't a speck of evidence for that. There is no trail. There is no hint. There isn't the slightest possibility for it. And yet, people keep repeating it like there is something backing it when there is nothing whatsoever backing it. 

And then, if they would just think. What if someone ordered you to kill someone and said that if you don't do it, they'll kill your sister? I love my sister as much as anybody loves theirs, but I wouldn't go out and kill someone because of such a threat. Would you? So, why do you think Jack Ruby would? 

And let's be perfectly clear about something: The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. I don't have to prove that they're wrong. They have to prove that they're right. And that means providing iron-clad evidence. 

But, they don't have any evidence for it. None whatsoever. And yet, they keep saying it, over and over again. 

Why is this happening? It's likely that this whole alternative story was started by the plotters, the real killers, in order to give the conspiracy crowd a place to go. And some of the people spouting it are phonies. They don't believe it. They know it's bull shit. But, they pretend otherwise, and it's because it doesn't matter to them in the slightest WHY you think Ruby shot Oswald. It only matters to them THAT you think Ruby shot Oswald. They're just trying to keep you far away from the truth, which is that Ruby did NOT shoot Oswald. He wasn't even in the garage at the time. He was upstairs already on the 5th floor. They had him in custody, and they just wove him into the story later. And poor Jack Ruby was so mentally incompetent,  he couldn't fight it. He couldn't stand up to them. His mind was so weak that he thought, "Well, if they told me I did it, I must have done it, even though I have no memory of doing it, and I didn't have the slightest thought to do it."  Ruby had this respect for authority, especially the Dallas Police, that went to the stratosphere. 

Now: to anyone who still wants to claim that Ruby shot Oswald to save his sister, you need to give me the name of the person who made the threat to Ruby, the place they met when the threat was made, and the time that it happened. Because: Ruby's movements between mid-day Friday and Sunday morning are laid out in explicit detail right here:

http://www.kenrahn.com/JFK/Issues_and_evidence/Jack_Ruby/Timeline_of_Ruby.html

So when, that weekend, did Ruby meet with a Mafioso who threatened him and his sister? Or do you figure they just phoned it in? But, even that would have to be substantiated.