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

Many people vouch for Oswald's innocence, but it's hard for many of them to also accept Ruby's innocence. But, they need to think about the spot the police were in. They couldn't let Oswald see a lawyer, not even once. One talk with a lawyer, and Oswald would have convinced him that he was standing in the doorway at the time of the shots. And that's the first thing the lawyer would have asked him. "If you didn't do it, where were you?" Then, Oswald would have had no trouble convincing the lawyer that he never ordered a rifle, that he didn't own one; that he didn't pose with one, and probably that he didn't even have a P.O. box. Oswald never said he did. 

Much more would have come out of that first meeting. The lawyer would have asked him why he went to the theater and how he got there. Surely, Oswald was smart enough to realize that lying to his own lawyer was not a good idea. So, he would have told him, and it would have been very exonerating. The lawyer would have realized that it was impossible for him to have shot Tippit. 

And Oswald would have had no trouble establishing his credibility with the lawyer; that he wasn't insane; that he wasn't homicidal; and the lawyer would have believed him. And that lawyer would have gone after the Dallas Police and especially the FBI. 

So, they couldn't let Oswald see a lawyer; yet, if he didn't see one soon, it would have been obvious to everyone that his legal rights were being denied. 

So, then what happened? Do you think they just got lucky that Jack Ruby came along and killed Oswald? Luck had nothing to do with it. And neither did the Mafia. I am sick and tired of hearing that the Mafia put Ruby up to shooting Oswald. It's impossible. They didn't do it before JFK was killed, did they? Well, from the time JFK was killed until Oswald was killed, we know everything that Jack Ruby did and who he did it with. We know everyone he talked to. We know the receiver of every phone call he made. Hour by hour, minute by minute, we know exactly what he did. And he never met up with any Mafia people who ordered him to shoot Oswald and destroy his entire life. 

And just as Ruby was not in cahoots with the Mafia, he was not in cahoots with the Dallas Police. Would you go for this deal? "OK, Jack, you're going to shoot Oswald; we're going to arrest you and charge you, prosecute you, testify against you, and when you get convicted, we'll see to it that you get the death penalty, and then we'll watch you fry in the electric chair. Deal?" 

You wouldn't take that deal, and neither would anybody, including Jack Ruby. So, he had no collaboration with the Dallas Police either.

Ruby was tricked into thinking that he shot Oswald. He sent his wire at 10:15. He testified to that. Then, he walked to the ramp, and surely he was encouraged to. And when he got there, he walked down the ramp, and surely he was encouraged to. And when he got to the garage, they were waiting for him. They pounced on him; they dragged him upstairs, and there, they told him that he shot Oswald.  Then, the better part of an hour later, they put on the Garage Spectacle with FBI Agent James Bookhout filling in for Ruby who was upstairs. That is what happened.

But, think about what happened on Sunday morning. WFAA Radio interviewed someone from the DPD who said that over 100 phone calls came in threatening to kill Oswald. Do you believe that? If so, why? Why would anyone who was bent on killing Oswald inform the police? For what purpose? But, if you listen to that recording, and it's quite lengthy, it sounds like they were sure someone was going to shoot him. They were TOO damn sure. 

And Ruby had no connection to LBJ, despite what he said about Johnson being responsible for JFK's death. I can tell you where he got that from. It was from a book that he read while in the County Jail: A Texan Looks At Lyndon by J. Evetts Haley. I've read it myself. His premise was that Oswald did it, but LBJ put him up to it. Stupid. But, that's all Ruby was going by. If he actually had any dirt on LBJ, they would have killed him immediately. 

Ruby was not a Mafioso, not a hit man, not a drug running, nor anything else. You could write his biography on a cocktail napkin. He was born in Chicago. He did some huckstering with his brother- nothing terrible, but various schemes to make a buck. When the war came, he did 4 years in the Air Force, stateside, as an airplane mechanic.  Then after the war, he returned to Chicago, resumed huckstering with his brother, but in 1947, he moved to Dallas to help his sister Eva in her nightclub business. Eventually, he got his own clubs, and that's what he did up to 1963. Rarely, he made trips, but not long ones. Once, he went to Cuba for a week because a friend, who ran a casino hotel in Havana, invited him. There is nothing to milk from that. He never worked for Richard Nixon. 

The big unknown in Ruby's life is how he got chosen to be MK-ULTRA'd. I'd like to know who his doctor was in Dallas- the one who prescribed him the amphetamines. Was he connected to the CIA? 

I suspect that hypnosis was involved too because Ruby had this respect and admiration for the Dallas Police- and law enforcement in general- that was far-flung. It is hardly typical of a Mafioso, don't you agree? So, there may have been hypnotic suggestion involved, as in The Manchurian Candidate. 

We know from the images alone that it was not Ruby in the Garage during the televised spectacle- and that is iron-clad. That Ruby was innocent is every bit as certain as that Oswald was innocent. The same people who killed Kennedy (Johnson and company) killed Oswald. Jack Ruby was just a witless buffoon who was bamboozled into thinking that he did it. After all, his beloved Dallas Police told him that he did it, so he must have done it.