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

This is what the real McMillon looked like in the scuffle, whom they converted into that mammoth guy. 

Pretty ridiculous, don't you agree? I read through his testimony, and it was difficult to read because it's extremely tedious, concerning all this minutia about what happened before and after. But, his WC questioner never asked him about the scuffle. Not a word. He was never asked to describe what you see in these pictures. He was never asked why they didn't handcuff Ruby in the garage. He was never asked how they knew they were taking him through the corner door. He was never asked anything about any of it. 

But, this is what actually happened: Ruby got to the basement earlier, almost an hour earlier. Recall that he told the Warren Commissioners that he sent the money wire at 10:15. But, they were waiting for him in the basement at that time. So, he got there; they jumped him, then they dragged him up to the 5th floor. And there he remained until 3:30, at which time they took him down to the 3rd floor to be questioned by Fritz. And it was at 3:30 in the crowded hallway of the 3rd floor, jammed with reporters and cameramen, that the real Jack Ruby was first woven into the story. That was the "switch" in the "bait and switch." 

And McMillon was one of three detectives who was with Ruby from the time of his arrest at about 10:30 until 3:30. That's 5 hours. The other two detectives were Archer and Clardy.  

But, there is an interesting statement in McMillon's testimony. He said he was with Ruby from the time of his arrest until 3:30 when they brought him to Fritz. 

Mr. McMILLON. I was with Ruby from the time that I first grabbed an arm out there and the scuffle followed. (Note that McMillon was never asked about the scuffle; he referred to it here voluntarily.) I was with him from that point until about 3:30 in the afternoon, and during this time that I was with him on the fifth floor until 3:30 in the afternoon, I was away at different times for short intervals.

Now, you'd think that his WC questioner, whose name was Burt Griffin, would have followed up on that and asked him what drew him away for short intervals, but he didn't. 

And it's likely that there was just one short interval that he was away, the one in which he went back down to the basement to participate in the remake of the scuffle with Ruby, but this time with James Bookhout playing Ruby, the whole thing being a theatrical staging for television. That is what the Garage Shooting was: theater.