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

 Jack Ruby was innocent, and the Dallas Police killed Oswald; and their actions speak of their guilt. 

Consider first that they announced that Oswald was in grave danger, that they expected him to be attacked when they did the jail transfer. You should listen to the DPD spokesmen on Dallas morning radio that morning. 

They said they got over 100 calls threatening Oswald's life. Do you believe that? Do you think that someone bent on killing Oswald would call the police to warn them that he was going to do it? Why would anyone do that? 

And one cop who took such a call actually said that he recognized Jack Ruby's voice on the line threatening to kill Oswald. If that was true, why didn't he send officers to Ruby's apartment to arrest him right away? It's against the law to threaten to kill someone- then and now. 

So, is there any chance that it's true? No. There isn't the slightest chance. Ruby lived in a small apartment with his roommate, George Senator and his dogs. George gave a complete accounting of Ruby's Sunday morning to the WC. The only call that occurred was Karen Carlin calling him. If Ruby had called the Dallas Police to threaten to kill Oswald, Senator would have known about it. And Ruby said, over and over, that he NEVER had a thought to kill Oswald- not once the whole weekend. There is no chance that Ruby made such a call.  The officer claiming it lied. 

And I don't believe there were any such calls, but if there were, why did the Dallas Police proceed with the pageant-like transfer? They didn't  have to do it. No one was forcing them to do it. They had complete control. They could have moved Oswald in secret, in the dead of night, with no fanfare. If they were really worried about his safety, if they really expected him to be attacked, wouldn't they have done that?  Why did they have to turn it into a show, into a televised spectacle? They weren't in the entertainment business. They were in the police business. Who said there had to be a media extravaganza in moving Oswald to the County Jail? That was a choice, not a necessity. The DPD surely could have gotten him there safely, if they wanted to.  So, why did they do something that they knew was very risky when they didn't have to? They could easily have called it off, and I mean without any hassle. What would have been the downside of calling it off? None.  

There is simply no excuse for their actions; for what they did. Their actions reek of guilt- the guilt of planning Oswald's televised murder.

But, let's look closely at their actions. They filled the basement with reporters and cameramen. They had a lot of detectives there, for security, who were lined up on the south wall of the garage. The reporters and cameramen were on the north side. So, as Fritz, and then the trio of Leavelle, Oswald, and Graves came out the corner door of the Jail Office, the concern had to be the north side where the reporters and cameramen were. They weren't worried that one of the detectives was going to shoot Oswald, were they? So, you'd think that their focus would be to look to their left. 

But, when they came out, Fritz turned around and nodded back at the trio. This is a single frame, so you can't see motion, but he was nodding his head here.

It was obviously a signal. And then, the trio came out. 

So, on our left, which was their right, there was the wall with the detectives. So, there wasn't going to be an attack from that side. If there was going to be an attack, it was going to come from the other side. So, it stood to reason that Leavelle and Graves would turn their heads and eyes to their left to visualize a threat. However, both of them made a point NOT to look that direction. They both acted like horses with blinders on, looking straight ahead. They didn't turn their heads or eyes at all. They just looked deadpan straight ahead- like zombies.  Then, just as Bookhout was coming in, Leavelle deliberately turned his head to his right to avoid seeing him. This is Leavelle looking away. 

So, Leavelle had his head turned towards the wall with the detectives, and that's because he knew Bookhout was coming in and he didn't want to see him. 

Graves was in on it too. Bookhout had to scurry right in front of him, and Graves just pretended not to see him. In this frame, Graves is looking down. He does not want to look at the shooter, and he doesn't want to take action until after  the shot goes off. And with his hand, he's helping him. He's shoving him a little bit to get him positioned. 

So, with eyes gazing down, Graves gives Bookhout a good hard shove to get him situated in front of everyone. 

Supposedly, Graves still hasn't seen the Shooter. If he had, he'd be looking at him, right? Can you see that Graves is looking down and not at the shooter? But, he's still shoving the shooter, trying to get him where he thinks he should be.  

So, with help from Graves, Bookhout is in position for what is coming next. And notice that Oswald is still on his feet. 

What happens next is that the shooter does a swan dive into the waiting arms of the police. He didn't try to run away. But, if he was going to give up, why didn't he just drop his gun and raise his arms in the air? Isn't that what surrendering criminals do? Have you ever heard of a criminal diving into the arms of the police? 

So then, they grab him, but he wasn't resisting. Never once did he try to punch or kick or spit or elbow. He wasn't being aggressive at all. He was being passive. So, why didn't they quickly get handcuffs on him? Isn't that what police do in that situation? Of course, it is.  

Then, Bookhout's hat must have fallen off, and maybe his toupee too. So, Detective Miller put something over his head. 

Miller really did do that, and if you watch it in motion, there will be no denying it. 

No one can deny that that's what happened: he covered the shooter's bare head. 

Then, they split up. Leavelle stays with Oswald, who is now on the ground, and the others, like a herd of penguins, start moving Bookhout towards the jail office door. 

There is no martial activity going on. There is no fighting. Bookhout isn't doing anything hostile, and the Penguins are just trying to get him inside without exposing him to the cameras. They didn't want to expose him because he was Bookhout and not Ruby.

Then, it went to a sea of bodies to obstruct the view. 

And by the time it cleared, it was all over and Oswald and Bookhout were gone. We never saw how Oswald made it inside. That was deliberately covered up. And we never saw Bookhout again either. They both just disappeared.

There were a lot of behind the whale frames. 

That big body obstructing the view for so long was famed photographer Bob Jackson. Of course, he wasn't really that big; they did photographic manipulation to turn him into a whale. And when he finally got out of the way, it was over. 

All done. Nothing more to see. Thrilling police work though, wasn't it? 

Now, anyone who buys this official crap is a schmo. This was a spectacle, a theatrical spectacle. And Oswald was not shot in the garage. He was shot afterwards in the Jail office. They had silencers for 38s in 1963. 

And Ruby wasn't in the garage during the spectacle. He was already being held up on the 5th floor, and they slipped him into the story for the first time at 3 pm when they brought him down to the 3rd floor for his first session with Fritz. 

What the Dallas Police did, in converting a 40 foot walk to put Oswald in a car into a puffed-up, televised spectacle, was designed to be a platform to kill him. It was all theater because they didn't shoot him for real until later.  

FBI Agent James Bookhout masqueraded as Ruby, and there was no  struggle between him and cops. They were all working together to keep him covered up as they waltzed him inside. There was no fighting or resisting. It was a dog and pony show, and every bit of it was dripping with guilt. 

Jack Ruby was innocent, and if you don't know that, you might as well not know anything about the JFK assassination. There is no understanding of what happened that weekend without realizing that Jack Ruby was innocent.