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

The Blueprint of why it is impossible for Jack Ruby to have shot Oswald

If you consider the known facts, you'll know that Jack Ruby could not possibly have shot Oswald.  It starts with recognizing that Ruby brought his beloved dog Sheba with him. He loved her. He used to say that she was like his wife, 

If he knew he was going to shoot Oswald in a crowd of police, then he would have known that there would be no chance of escape and that he would never return to his life.  So, not only, would he not have brought his dog along; he would have made arrangements for her care and well being after he was apprehended.  

This was one of those times where Ruby, the victim, unwittingly, foiled his oppressors. By bringing his dog along, he proved that he had no intention of shooting Oswald. So, just as Oswald vindicated himself by wearing that very unusual Russian shirt on Friday and unwittingly getting photographed in it in the doorway during the motorcade, Ruby unwittingly got the better of his oppressors by bringing his dog along. So, why did he bring her? He was going to leave her with someone at the Carousel Club, which was right across the street. He had plans for the day. He was going to go to the new apartment complex that he was soon moving into. 

So, the whole idea that Ruby went there to kill Oswald, on any basis whatsoever, can't get off the ground. It can't get airborne- not with that dog in the car.  

And Ruby's lawyers knew it. They knew about the dog. And that's why they argued that he had no intention of shooting Oswald, that it was just something he did in a moment of madness. His lawyer Melvin Belli came up with a medical diagnosis: psychomotor epilepsy. It was ridiculous. Epilepsy is the massive and random discharge of nerve impulses from the brain to the muscles, but the idea that a person could pull the trigger of a gun as part of an epileptic seizure is absurd. Furthermore, we have the footage of the Shooter's movements, and he is definitely not acting epileptic. 

So, why did Belli go down that road? It's because he talked to Ruby. He asked him, "What do you remember?" And Ruby told him, "Nothing. I went down there, and the next thing I knew, the police were pouncing on me. Then, they dragged me up to the 5th floor, and that's where they told me I shot Oswald. That's it. I don't remember anything else."

So, why didn't Belli believe him? Why didn't he consider that what Ruby remembered is exactly what happened?

But, let's start with Ruby. Why didn't Ruby believe in himself? Why didn't he consider that he was remembering it accurately, and it was the Dallas Police who were lying? He couldn't go down that road because he believed in the Dallas Police. They were his heroes. He greatly admired them. It was beyond the pale for him to think that they would do something so heinous. 

Well, that's the exact same reason why Belli's mind wouldn't go there. I'm sure his mind wasn't closed to police corruption, but it was closed to police corruption of this magnitude. All he had to do was look closely at the images of the Garage Shooter, and he would have seen that the guy wasn't Ruby because he had different hair; he was a different height; his body was different (pudgier); he had  a different shaped head and a different length neck, etc. But, Belli was blind to it because he already concluded that Ruby did it, and therefore, he never looked at the images closely or critically. 

And Belli overlooked another great indicator, which is that in both the Beers and Jackson photo, you can see that the Shooter pulled the trigger with his middle finger. Why would Ruby have done that? He wouldn't have. He had a right index finger.  And to be honest, NOBODY would do that, unless they want to blow their finger off.  Did he ever ask Ruby why he used his middle finger? I can't answer that, but if he did, I'm sure Ruby told him that he didn't know anything about it. Perhaps Belli attributed it to the epilepsy. But, it was a colossal failure of thinking and reasoning.  

What about the idea that the Mafia put Ruby up to it? A lot of people claim that, but we know everything Ruby did from Thursday to Sunday, and I mean for every minute of the days and nights, and he definitely did not meet with any Mafia. And it could not have been arranged in advance because the original plan was to have Oswald shot in the theater. That was the purpose of sending him there. But, it didn't work out. So, getting Ruby to shoot Oswald was definitely Plan B. They couldn't talk to him about it in advance. So, they didn't talk to him about it before the assassination, and they definitely didn't talk to him about it after the assassination. So, when did they talk to him about it? They didn't!

And the whole idea that they got him to do it by threatening his sister is childish. Childish and stupid. NOBODY would go out and kill someone because of such a threat. Would you? I've got a sister, and I love her dearly.  But no, I wouldn't go out and kill somebody because someone threatened to kill her if I didn't. I would go to her and get her somewhere safe and protected. I would go to the police and report it. And then I would go to the newspapers and tell them. But, I'm not going to go out and kill someone. Of course not. 

And really, it is stupid, INCREDIBLY STUPID, for anyone to believe it. Such a threat is very likely to be a bluff anyway. The Mafia didn't really have anything to gain by killing Ruby's sister. Murder is risky business, is it not? They weren't going to take the risk for that reason.  Do you really think that if Ruby told them no, that he won't kill Oswald, that they would have gone out and killed his sister? How would that have helped the Mafia? What would they have gained from it? And if it was a matter of punishing Ruby for not following orders, wouldn't they have just killed him? I don't know where the idea came from that Ruby killed Oswald to protect his sister, but it is ridiculous.  It makes no sense at all. 

And get this: THE PEOPLE WHO CLAIM IT DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY EVIDENCE FOR IT. They have nothing whatsoever to point to that anyone in the Mafia ever made such a threat to Ruby. They just pull it out of thin air and plop it down, but why does anyone believe them? 

So, forget the Mafia. But, what about the Dallas Police? Couldn't they have put Ruby up to shooting Oswald? 

No, There could have been no conspiracy between the Dallas Police and Ruby. When people conspire together, they all expect to win. Nobody conspires when the plan is for them to be arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and then put to death.  Not even Ruby, as deranged as he was, would have gone for that. 

If the Dallas Police had conspired with Ruby to kill Oswald, then they would have had to kill Ruby right away. They couldn't trust him to keep his mouth shut. For three years?  To trust that he was never going to blurt to his lawyers, "All right. I can't take it any more. I'm going to tell you the truth. The Dallas Police put me up to it. They told me when to come. They made sure a door was open for me to get in. We did it together. I've been lying to you all along." 

You think the Dallas Police would have taken a chance like that? When Jack Ruby could have exposed them as murderers? They would have killed him his first night at the County Jail. You know: he hung himself in his cell; or he got stabbed in the shower; or he had suicide pills that he took; or somebody poisoned him; or he was shot trying to escape. Bada bing;  bada boom. You take care of business. Dead men tell no tales. The fact that Ruby lived for three years should tell you that he didn't know a damn thing. 

It was easy for them to get Ruby a block away by getting Karen Carlin to request the money wire. So, how did they get him from Western Union to the Police Garage? That's where drugs came in. And it's very likely that one of those drugs was scopolamine. 

Allen Dulles learned about scopolamine from the Nazis. Remember, he was very cozy with the Nazis throughout WW2. He was stationed in neutral Switzerland, and there were plenty of Nazis there too. He socialized with them. He partied with them. That is part of the record. And he befriended quite a few of them. And that's why, after the war, he did all he could to save his friends. Even though 11 Nazis were put to death for war crimes at Nuremberg, Dulles ferried over 2000 Nazis into the U.S. to good and richly rewarded lives because of their talents, starting with the rocket scientists, and then the chemists. It was called Operation Paperclip. 

The Nazis used scopolamine as a truth serum, but it was much more than that. Scopolamine is called the zombie drug. It makes you like a zombie. It destroys your free will. It makes you inclined and willing to do whatever you are told to do. Criminals in South America have used it to get people to go to the bank; empty their accounts; and give them the money. 

So, the Karen Carlin ruse got Ruby, who was high on amphetamines and scopolamine, to Western Union. Then, all it took was for someone, anyone, to just make a casual remark to Ruby, such as, "What are those people doing down there at the ramp? You ought to go check it out." That's all it would have taken for him to do it. (And note that it was an entrance ramp, and there was no reason for anyone to be there. Who were they waiting for to enter? Nobody.) And then, when he got to the ramp, someone just had to nudge him down there with a head-nod, or say, "Go on down there; see what's going on," and he would have done it. 

One of the effects of scopolamine is to cause your eyes to dilate, as you see here on Ruby:

There is a big black dilated pupil in the center of his eye. Here is a reference to the dilating effect of scopolamine. 

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/ask-ophthalmologist-q/scopolamine-side-effects

And if you try to say that there are other drugs that cause dilation, I'm going to say, so what? It doesn't change anything. 

Ruby was innocent. He got there an hour early, and what he remembered happening is exactly what happened. He was jumped; then hustled up to the 5th floor; and there he was told that he shot Oswald. That's where he was when the Garage Spectacle went down, with James Bookhout filling in for Ruby, until they could slip the real Ruby into the story in a perfect bait and switch. That is really what happened on November 24, 1963.