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

 The idea that Ruby was ordered to shoot Oswald is ridiculous. Who ordered him to do it? The Mafia? Who in the Mafia ordered him to do it? If you don't know, if you can't name names, you don't know that anyone in the Mafia ordered him to do it.

And when and how could such an order have been given? Was it at a meeting between Ruby and the Mafia, or did they phone it in?

"Now, Jack, I know this is sudden, but we need you to shoot Oswald in a crowd of police. You'll be arrested, tried, and convicted, and you'll probably get the death sentence. But regardless, your life is over. You're never going back to it. You're losing everything. And if you don't do it, we'll kill your sister. And remember who we are: the Mafia. Anywho, please confirm, and have a nice day."

The fact is that we know every move that Ruby made from the Thursday to the Sunday, and we know every phone call he made and received. They are tabulated here:

https://www.kenrahn.com/JFK/Issues_and_evidence/Jack_Ruby/Timeline_of_Ruby.html

And you'll notice that there was no call from or meeting with the Mafia.

And why, if Ruby was ordered to shoot Oswald, did he bring his beloved dog Sheba along? Wouldn't he have made arrangements for her and his other dogs? He had to know that if he shot Oswald in a crowd of police, he wasn't going back to those dogs. He wasn't going back to anything.

And if Ruby was ordered to kill Oswald at the Jail Transfer, wouldn't he have shown up on time? 10:00 was the only guidance given. Who arrives an hour and twenty minutes late for a killing?

There is also a version in which the CIA ordered Ruby to kill Oswald. Did they threaten to kill his sister too? So, when did this meeting with the CIA take place? Where, when, and with whom? If you don't know, you have no basis to claim it.

There is no evidence, whatsoever, of Ruby being ordered to kill Oswald by anybody. It's just a stupid, mindless lip-flap.

But, if you are not stupid, and if you are not mindless, I assume you aren't going to say it, and you are going to dismiss the stupid, mindless plucks that do.

And some of those stupid, mindless plucks are going to respond to this. But, they are not going to name the person or persons who ordered Ruby to shoot Oswald. They are not going to say when and where their meeting with Ruby took place. But, what that timeline shows you is that it could not possibly have taken place because there are no gaps in the timeline in which it could have happened.

Ruby was never ordered to shoot Oswald, period.