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

In his testimony to the Warren Commissioners, Jack Ruby said that that Sunday morning, he saw an editorial that was a Letter to Caroline.

Mr. RUBY: On Sunday morning, I saw a letter to Caroline, two columns about a 16-inch area. Someone had written a letter to Caroline. The most heartbreaking letter. Do you remember that?

Mr. MOORE. I think I saw it.

Elmer Moore was a Secret Service agent who was in California the weekend of the assassinations, and there is no way he could have been reading a Dallas paper on Sunday morning. But, besides that lie, he quickly corrected Ruby when he cited the time he sent the money order as 10:17.

Ruby: The time I sent the money order, I think it was 10:17 Sunday morning.

Moore jumped in instantly to correct Ruby about the time, and Ruby didn't contest it. But, Ruby never contested anything.  

But returning to the Letter to Caroline, Ruby must have been referring to the Dallas Morning News since it was morning. So, all we have to do is find the DMN for November 24, 1963, and it should be there. Well, it's not. 

I checked, and it is NOT there. Furthermore, if someone wrote a heartbreaking letter to Caroline, that would have gotten picked up and published by papers all over the country. Why not? You know papers love that kind of thing. It would have become part of the fabric of the assassination. We'd all be talking about it to this day, like the one, Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, from 1897. 

Ironically, somebody thought of the idea of a Letter to Caroline years later and put it into a short story about a boy from Louisiana who wrote a letter to Caroline and mailed it the Tuesday after the assassination. The story was published in 2015. 

https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/11/28/dixon-hearne-letter-caroline-kennedy-circa/76274916/ 

The point is that the letter that Ruby referred to doesn't exist and never existed. If it did, we'd have it. 

So, what does that mean? What is the resolution of this? It's anybody's guess, but mine is that they rigged up a special paper for Ruby that had that gut-wrenching letter in it. And again, they were not expecting him to shoot Oswald or counting on him to do it. It was all about selling the idea that he did- to him and the world. You see, he was distraught because of the letter.