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

 A woman named Shannon Brooks posted the following statement on Facebook that is totally false. It is, simply put, a lie.

KLIF's Gary DeLaune was in the basement when Ruby shot Oswald. DeLaune rushed in from the basement to report what happened. Glen Duncan cleared the air.

An out of breath DeLaune was asked by Duncan if he saw the assailant. Gary said, "I know the who the man was that shot Lee Harvey Oswald. I think everybody everybody does over there. Uh, I don't think his name has been released but he is a well known Dallasite, who reportedly owns a nightclub."

The custom was that names wouldn't be released until the police released it.

That is not true. Gary DeLaune said that he did not know that it was Jack Ruby at the time. You can read it here.

https://www.ksat.com/news/2013/11/22/san-antonio-radio-reporter-gary-delaune-witnessed-oswald-killing/?fbclid=IwAR2tnGRlddkQTFbBsPf04yuNjnfvPwZGwJWVi6DLy9eTo0D3Yvun_dPC_rk

No reporter claimed to recognize Ruby in the garage. None of them proffered his name before the police announced. Hugh Aynesworth knew Ruby well and had eaten lunch with him that weekend, and he said that he didn't know it was Ruby until the police said so. Ike Pappas had talked to Ruby the day before and gotten his business card from him, and he did not recognize the Shooter as Ruby. He found out it was Ruby the same way everybody else did, from the police announcing it. 

It's a little bit confusing because, as time passed, these reporters talked about it as if they had recognized Ruby. They would say things like, "And then I saw Ruby dart out from the crowd." They said such things based on the widespread acceptance that the man was Ruby. But, let me be crystal-clear about this: No reporter cited the name of Jack Ruby until after the police announced it. None of them could generate that name themselves based on seeing and recognizing him in the Garage, before, during, or after the shooting. 

Jack Ruby was innocent. He was not in the Garage during the Oswald Shooting. At that time, he was being held up on the 5th floor, in his underwear. The man masquerading as Jack Ruby during the spectacle was FBI Agent James W. Bookhout.