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

 

Both the Jackson and Beers photos show the Shooter using his middle finger to pull the finger. Why would Jack Ruby do that? A revolver, and especially a tiny snub-nosed revolver, is designed to use the index finger to engage the trigger. It isn't arbitrary. If you use middle finger, you won't have as much strength or control. Nor will the grip of the gun fit into your palm as snugly if you use the middle finger. And worst of all, there is no place for your index finger to go except forward along the cylinder, which is dangerous.

So, why would anyone do that? In Ruby's case, his left index finger was partially severed, but his right index finger was whole and intact. So, he had no reason to use his middle finger.

And his lawyers asked him, "Why'd you use your middle finger, Jack?" And his response, "I don't even remember shooting Oswald, so how can I tell you why I used my middle finger?" And in the end, Melvin Belli just attributed it to the "psychomotor epilepsy" that he said Ruby had.

And it only goes to show that, then as now, people can't wrap their head around how evil the State is. Belli just couldn't see that the State killed Kennedy and then killed Oswald for which they framed the hapless Jack Ruby. Belli just couldn't see that the Dallas Police were lying, that it wasn't "psychomotor epilepsy" that explained what happened to Jack Ruby; it was that he was a targeted victim of the murderous State that wanted Kennedy dead so badly that they would do anything to accomplish it. The savage ruthlessness of it is and was daunting, and Belli just couldn't see it because he couldn't fathom that America could be that bad, that evil.

But, Ruby did have a partially severed left index finger, and that explains why they staged the shooting the way they did. Apparently, the plotters were misinformed. Someone must have told them that Ruby was missing his right index finger, and threfore, would have had to use his left. But, it wasn't true. It was just the opposite. Therefore, there was no reason why Jack Ruby would have used his middle finger.

So, the bottom line is that, like the sock fiasco which led to the Dallas Police having to claim that they changed Ruby's underwear, this was another production error.

But, how many production errors does it take for people to wake up to the fact that Jack Ruby was innocent? Framed and innocent.