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

 On the left is Ruby a couple minutes after the shooting. On the right is Ruby about 3 PM when they took him down to the 3rd floor and paraded him around.

Let's first consider the first image. He looks roughed up and desheveled. His shirt is unbuttoned, and the implication is that the buttons got torn off. Right? Because if they weren't torn off, then it means somebody unbuttoned them, and I don't mean Ruby. And, if you're going to tell me that the Dallas Police unbuttoned his buttons, you might as well admit that they killed Oswald and framed Ruby.

So if his buttons were torn off, why does his shirt look neat and buttoned on the right? And why does he look neat and cleaned up and well groomed, and I mean GQ groomed.?

There are two detailed accounts of Ruby's time upstairs on 11/24. One is Bugliosi's Reclaiming History, and the other is by Ruby's lawyer Elmer Gertz' in Moment of Madness. Neither says anything about Ruby getting a makeover.

But, there's another problem: what happened to Ruby's jacket on the left? Three detectives, McMillarn, Archer, and Clardy, claimed that as soon as they got Ruby inside the Jail Office, they pushed him down to the ground and handcuffed him. They didn't explain why they didn't do that in the garage. It was McMillan's cuffs that went on Ruby. But, they did not say that they removed his jacket first. And of course, you know they didn't because who would do that in trying to gain control over a violent man? Nobody would do that. Furthermore, they specficially stated that they didn't remove his jacket until they got him upstairs. It's in the testimony. So, why is there this image of Ruby jacketless and buttonless in the Jail Office? What's the talking point for that?