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

 You should read this excerpt from Jack Ruby's testimony to the Warren Commissioners, who traveled to Dallas just to talk to him. You'll see that he told them that he went the money wire at 10:17, an hour earlier than reported. 

I am taking a pill called Preludin. It is a harmless pill, and it is very easy to get in the drugstore. It isn't a highly prescribed pill. I use it for dieting.

RC: Preludin is a stimulant drug, similar to amphetamines. It was banned in the 1980s due to widespread abusve. It's interesting that we don't know who Ruby's doctor was, the one who prescribed it. We know who is rabbi was, but not his doctor. It continues below, and notice how flighty and incoherent Ruby was. He really was a scatterbrain. The idea that anyone would secure him to kill somebody is a joke. After reading it, ask yourself: Do you really think Dallas Police were going to trust Jack Ruby to shoot a loaded gun in their crowded midst? Do you think Jim Leavelle wanted Jack Ruby firing a gun in his direction?

I don't partake of that much food. I think that was a stimulus to give me an emotional feeling that suddenly I felt, which was so stupid, that I wanted to show my love for our faith, being of the Jewish faith, and I never used the term and I don't want to go into that--suddenly the feeling, the emotional feeling came within me that someone owed this debt to our beloved President to save her the ordeal of coming back. I don't know why that came through my mind.

And I drove past Main Street, past the County Building, and there was a crowd already gathered there. And I guess I thought I knew he was going to be moved at 10 o'clock, I don't know. I listened to the radio; and I passed a crowd and it looked--I am repeating myself--and I took it for granted he had already been moved.

And I parked my car in the lot across from the Western Union. Prior to that, I got a call from a little girl (RC: strange way to refer to Karen Carlin, a stripetease dance)--she wanted-some money--that-worked for me, and I said, "Can't you wait till payday?" And she said, "Jack, you are going to be closed."

So my purpose was to go to the Western Union--my double purpose but the thought of doing, committing the act wasn't until I left my apartment.

Sending the wire was when I had the phone call--or the money order.

I drove down Main Street--there was a little incident I left out, that I started to go down a driveway, but I wanted to go by the wreaths, and I saw them and started to cry again.
Then I drove, parked the car across from the Western Union, went into the Western Union, sent the money order, whatever it was, walked the distance from the Western Union to the ramp--I didn't sneak in. I didn't linger in there.

I didn't crouch or hide behind anyone, unless the television camera can make it seem that way.

There was an officer talking--I don't know what rank he had--talking to a Sam Pierce in a car parked up on the curb.

I walked down those few steps, and there was the person (RC: he meant Oswald, whom he never referred to by name) that--I wouldn't say I saw red--it was a feeling I had for our beloved President and Mrs. Kennedy, that he was insignificant to what my purpose was.
And when I walked down the ramp--I would say there was an 8-foot clearance--not that I wanted to be a hero, or I didn't realize that even if the officer would have observed me, the klieg lights, but I can't take that.

I did not mingle with the crowd. There was no one near me when I walked down that ramp, because if you will time the time I sent the money order, I think it was 10:17 Sunday morning.

RC: I'm not going to try to decipher all that. Ruby was not of sound mind. But notice that he said that he sent the money order at 10:17. After he said it, a Secret Service agent promptly interrupted him and said it was 11:21. His name was Elmer Moore, who was from San Francisco. That's where he was the weekend of the assassination. So, he had no first-hand knowledge of anything. And 11:21 wasn't right even by the official story. What Ruby said was correct. He did send the money wire about 10:17. Upon arresting him, they removed his clothes, down to his drawers.  So, they got the paperwork of the WU wire. It must have been on him because he went directly to the garage from WU. And I'm sure they replaced that paperwork with one that said 11:17.

Jack Ruby was innocent. He got to the garage an hour before the televised spectacle, and after rushing him up to the 5th floor jail, they kept him there- in his drawers- until about 3:00 when they brought him down to the 3rd floor to be questioned by Fritz. And that's when reporters and cameramen in the crowded hallway of the 3rd floor saw him for the first time. That is when the "switch" in the "bait and switch" took place.