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

I have been asked to provide a concise statement, for a historical journal, of the evidence proving that Jack Ruby did not shoot Lee Harvey Oswald. And that's what this is.

It starts by recognizing that when you do a close inspection of the images of the Garage Shooter, and compare them to images of Jack Ruby from that day, you can see that they were different men.

On the left is the Garage Shooter. You see how is hair was, which was rather long and thick in back and matted. It looks like it could have been a wig. You don't see any hair growing out of his scalp. And the skin in back of his neck was razored clean; he had no fuzzy hair growth. However, Ruby, on the right, did not have long hair that abruptly ended in a clean horizontal line; rather, he had the typical tapering of the hair in back, and A LOT OF FUZZY HAIR GROWTH. I am referring to the "dirty neck look" that men get between haircuts. Ruby had that dirty neck look on 11/24/63, but the Garage Shooter did not. 

Note second, that the Garage Shooter had a very short neck. Ruby's neck was much longer. Compare the distance from the hairline in back to the collar on each man.

Note third, that the Garage Shooter was a short man, the shortest man in the garage, that we know of. He was like a midget compared to the "penguins," as I call them, who subdued him.

Jack Ruby was 5'9". That was average height then, and it still is today. How, in a garage with 50 men, could a man who was 5'9" stand out as being the shortest man in it? And note on the left above the image of Captain Will Fritz, who was a short man, much shorter than 5'9". But, even he appears to be taller than the Shooter.  

I could go further with the physical comparisons, but let's move on to what Ruby said. It is widely claimed that Ruby admitted shooting Oswald. That is not true. Ruby accepted that he shot Oswald. Big difference. Ruby said he had no intention of shooting Oswald, that for the whole weekend, he never had the slightest thought of harming Oswald in any way. And when he went to the Garage, he didn't even have the expectation of seeing Oswald, let alone killing him. And all he could remember was going to the basement, being jumped by the police, hustled up to the 5th floor jail, where he was told that he shot Oswald. His entire belief that he shot Oswald was derived from police telling him that he did it. 

But, if he did it, why couldn't he remember doing it? Ruby's lawyer, Melvin Belli, argued at trial that Ruby had "psychomotor epilepsy" in which he lost consciousness and shot Oswald in the midst of an epileptic seizure.  It was nonsense. The disorderly and chaotic nervous discharge of an epileptic seizure could not possibly produce the organized, precise action of pulling the trigger of a gun. So, why did Belli make that absurd argument?

It was because Ruby told him, "Look, I can't remember what happened. All I remember is going down there and suddenly the cops jumped me, and I didn't know why. And I even said to them at the time, "What are you doing? You know me. I'm Jack Ruby." 

The problem was that Melvin Belli was mentally incapable of considering that the Dallas Police were lying. Belli had a mental defect, what I call "Americana," the belief that America is good, and it couldn't happen here that police would lie, after framing Ruby and tricking him into believing that he shot Oswald. 

There is no reason to think there was anything wrong with Ruby's memory. He remembered seeing and recognizing Lt. Rio Sam Pierce at the top of the ramp, just a couple minutes before the shooting. So, if he could remember that, why couldn't he remember shooting Oswald? He couldn't remember shooting Oswald because he didn't shoot Oswald. 

And that brings me to another issue that is almost comical. In the famous Beers and Jackson photos, you can see that the Garage Shooter used his middle finger to pull the trigger. Why would Jack Ruby do that? I have heard ridiculous claims, such as that that was the Mafia way to do it. The fact was that Jack Ruby's left index finger was partially amputated. But, the people who plotted this must have had the mistaken belief that it was Ruby's right index finger that was missing. And so, they had Ruby's surrogate, who was FBI Agent James Bookhout, stage it with his middle finger. 

So, that is the middle finger in the trigger compartment above. I do not believe that Oswald was shot in the garage. I think the Garage shooting was a theatrical spectacle for television, and Oswald was shot for real afterwards. But, here is the image of Ruby exposing his amputated left index finger.

So, that mistake was a production error, which I know about since I am a filmmaker. It's very easy to make production errors. Then, likewise, there was the sock an shoe fiasco, in which Ruby's mug shot showed that he wore a high-top work shoe and jet black socks, whereas the Shooter wore a dressy wingtip shoe and light socks.

So, on the left is the Garage Shooter, and on the right is Ruby in his mug shot. How were they going to explain this discrepancy. It was like a chess game, and their only move was to claim that the Dallas Police, not only changed Ruby's shirt and pants, but his shoes and underwear too. Do you know how ridiculous that is? It was a City Jail. Nobody stays there. Defendants get arraigned, then they either go to the County Jail to await trial, or they go home. So, no uniforms or clothes of any kind are provided to prisoners at a City Jail. Was Oswald provided with clothes? No. Even the clothes he wore on Sunday morning were his own clothes obtained from his boarding room. But, look at this ridiculous thing, an invoice claiming that they confiscated Ruby's underwear.

You see that it says "1 set underwear." Supposedly, they took that from Ruby, and put it in a bin, and presumably provided him with a set of their underwear, because this was a PD and prisoners had to be in regulation underwear. Do you see how ridiculous it is? And they did this even though Ruby was going to the County Jail the very next morning. It is absolutely absurd. 

There is much more that I could tell you about the framing of Jack Ruby, which was the greatest psy-op in the history of psy-ops.  But, I am going to give you just one more thing: we know the identity of the Garage Shooter. He was FBI Agent James Bookhout. This discovery was made upon realizing that there were no images of James Bookhout from the JFK assassination, even though he followed Oswald around like his shadow and attended every Oswald interrogation. We have only one straight-on image of the face of the Garage Shooter, and it's from the 30 year retrospective on the killing of Oswald by NBC. So, it was from 1993.

On the right is the face of the Garage Shooter, although deliberately compromised. For instance, his eyes were blackened out. They look more like racoon stripes. And notice how round his face was, which Ruby's wasn't. On the left is James Bookhout in 1937 when he graduated from SMU Law School in Dallas. Those two are the same person separated by 26 years of time. It's called aging. And I'd have to say that Bookhout's resemblance to his younger self was more striking than most. 

And the Garage Shooter was definitely not Jack Ruby, who had a longer face, a longer forward, a much longer neck, and pyramidal shaped nose. 

Ruby, on the left, could not possibly be the man on the right, even though the photos were taken on the same day. 

Like Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby was innocent. Note that Ruby told the Warren Commissioners that he sent his money wire to Karen Carlin at 10:15. Right away, a Secret Service agent who wasn't even in the state of Texas on 11/24/63 corrected him and said it was 11:15. And Ruby didn't dispute it. But, then again, Ruby didn't dispute anything from authority because he respected authority so much.  

But, he wasn't mistaken. He did send the money wire at 10:15. He got to the garage an hour earlier than reported, and he was already in custody up on the 5th floor when the Garage Spectacle went down. A few hours later, they wove the real Jack Ruby into the story for the first time when they brought him down from the 5th floor to the 3rd floor and let reporters and cameramen see him. It was a classic bait and switch. 

Jack Ruby was innocent! It is the best kept secret of the JFK assassination. The first person to realize it wasn't me; it was Maxim Irkutsk, the Russian researcher who proclaimed it in 2013. So, the plotters went 50 years before anyone unraveled it. Here is Maxim's Youtube video about it, which has been up since 2013. It now has about 10,000 views, but help me get it up to 10 million.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh3zvoj9HVc

Jack Ruby was innocent! Stop fighting it! Take your mind back. We've all been like Pavlovian dogs over this. So yes, take your mind back and help destroy the most diabolical and Machiavellian lie in the history of lies. Jack Ruby was not a Mafioso. All those stories and sightings are lies. He was not a pimp. He was not a hit man. And he did not kill Oswald. Jack Ruby was innocent.