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

I know that when people first hear me say that Jack Ruby was innocent, their immediate reaction is to to recoil. Please don't do that. Just hear me out with an open mind.

 It's often said that millions saw Ruby shoot Oswald on national television, but they didn't know he was Ruby from seeing him. They identified him as Ruby because the police said he was. 

But, didn't Ruby confess to shooting Oswald? No. Ruby accepted that he shot Oswald. He said that he had no memory of shooting Oswald, that all he could remember was reaching the basement and being jumped by the police. He didn't know why they were jumping him, and that's why he said, "Hey, what are you doing? You know me. I'm Jack Ruby. I'm not some criminal." Why would he said that if he knew he just shot Oswald? Didn't he know that police frown on that kind of thing? Then, they hustled him up to the 5th floor and told him that he shot Oswald. And that's how he found out and came to believe it. And most people wouldn't. No matter how many cops told them that they shot Oswald, if their own cognition told them that they didn't, they would adamantly deny it. 10 cops, 100 cops, even 1000 cops, it wouldn't matter.

Ruby said he had no intention to shoot Oswald. He brought his dog Sheba along, who he was going to leave with someone at the Carousel Club afterwards. How could he expect to have an afterwards if he intended to shoot Oswald? 

The films and photos do not show the face of the Shooter. So, to visually confirm that the Shooter was Ruby, we have to compare other data. So, let's try to do that, starting with his hair in back.

On the left is the Shooter as per the Jackson photo, and on the right is Ruby; his mug shot. On the left, we see that the hair is long, and styled long, because his neck looks clean and razored, and the bottom of his hair is perfectly horizontal. It's obviously not the standard tapered haircut. However, Ruby, on the right, looks to have a regular tapered haircut, except that he's 2 or 3 weeks out from his last haircut and has the scruffy hair growth that men get between haircuts, and it goes all the way down to his collar.  You notice that his neck looks dirty. The Shooter's neck looks clean. And while we're speaking of necks, notice how short the Shooter's neck was. Ruby's was longer. 

Next, let's consider height. The Shooter was short. He was the shortest man in the garage, that we know of. Ruby was 5'9", which was the same height as Oswald. There is no way the Shooter was 5'9" because that's average height.

Note that Will Fritz, on the left, was short, about 5'7". The Shooter appears shorter.

The Shooter was short, significantly shorter than 5'9". But, he had some girth to him. At this time in his life, Ruby was not that heavy. The Shooter looked burly, in comparison. On the left is Ruby from the Midnight Press Conference a little past midnight on Saturday.

Notice that the Shooter, with his short neck, looks stockier.

So, if Ruby wasn't the Shooter, if the reason all he could remember was going there and being jumped, let's consider the possibility that that's what happened. It would mean that Ruby got to the garage earlier than reported and had his own private spectacle with the cops- untelevised. 

Then who could have been playing Ruby at the televised spectacle? It appears that Oswald glanced at the Shooter. 

If Oswald knew the Shooter, it had to have been someone from law enforcement. But who? None of Fritz' men are contenders because none of them had the physicality of the Shooter. What about FBI agents? The most prominent and ubuiqitous one was James Bookhout, who attended every Oswald interrogation. So, we should look at his images. But, there are NO images of James Bookhout from the JFK assassination. And that is a very alarming fact, since he followed Oswald around like his shadow. 

A  strange image of Bookhout emerged in 2017 showing him fiddling with a pipe in the Homicide Bureau. Those proffering it claimed that the National Archives vouched for him being Bookhout, but I now have written statements from the National Archives disavowing that. And it is a ridiculous image because the central figure is completely disengaged in what is going on. The idea that James Bookhout, the FBI laison to the Dallas Police, would have been lost in his own world when Will Fritz behind him was talking about the case is ridiculous. It is my opinion that the man with the pipe was pasted into the image. 

One other image of Bookhout was claimed to be found around the same time, and it was from 1968.

You can see that the men in the center is dominant in the picture, and the name that is dominant is that of Ranger Captain Bob Crowder, who was a very famous and revered Texas Ranger, one of the most celebrated in Ranger history. Here are some comparisons.

So, that was Bob Crowder, not James Bookhout. So, what's left in the way of images of James Bookhout? All that's left are yearbook photos from his school days. But first note that there are reasons to believe that James Bookhout was short. He told the Warren Commission that he couldn't see the President at the motorcade on Main Street where he was because there were people in front of him. Would a tall man say that? And James Hosty reported that when he arrived at the PD, Bookhout was standing on some kind of pedestal trying to find him in the crowd. Would a tall man have had to do that? 

This is the earliest photo we have of James Bookhout, when he was 16 years old at Woodrow Wilson H.S. in Dallas.

Notice that he was short and heavy-set, even at that age. 

In 1993, NBC did a retrospective on the Oswald shooting that included this image of the Shooter surrounded by detectives in the police office after the shooting.

That is the only image we have of the face of the Garage Shooter, and it is excellent match to James Bookhout. On the left is his yearbook photo from his 1937 graduation from SMU Law School in Dallas.

That is the same man separated by 26 years of time. He isn't Ruby.

Jack Ruby was framed and innocent. He arrived at the ramp about an hour earlier than reported. He had his own private scuffle with the police, at which there was no shooting. He couldn't remember shooting Oswald because he didn't shoot him. Ruby told the Chief Justice Warren thathe sent the money wire at 10:17. He was corrected right away by a Secret Service agent, but still, that is what he said and believed. 

Granted, this is a lot to swallow, but it's true. James Bookhout wore a toupee' at the televised spectacle. It came off during the scuffle, and a cop covered his head with something.

There was not fighting going on. The cops and Bookhout were working together. He wasn't doing anything. He wasn't resisting in any way. They just wanted to hustle him into the Jail Office without being seen, since he was James Bookhout. Why didn't they handcuff him in the garage? Because he was James Bookhout. 

And because James Bookhout wore that ridiculous thick toupee' when Jack Ruby was almost completely bald, Ruby had to be given hair in all his images for the rest of his life. And the enhancements came out different every time. 

But, they missed some frames. 

Even the tufts we see directly above aren't real. They were painted in. Ruby was almost completely bald on top. 

I realize that this is a lot to digest, but it really is true that Jack Ruby was framed and innocent, but he was also mentally incapacitated. That was the difference between him and Oswald. Oswald was mentally sound; Ruby wasn't. 

There was no shooting in the garage. The televised spectacle was just for show. Oswald was shot in the Jail Office afterwards. Oswald was tricked into particpating in the ruse. 

The killing of Oswald was done by the Dallas Police and the FBI. We should assume that Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover put them up to it, respectively. It was ordered by the Commander in Chief. I don't know who pulled the trigger. I am tempted to say that they let Tippit's partner do it. Of course, Oswald didn't shoot Kennedy or Tippit, and he ws standing in the doorway at the time of the shots.