If James Bookhout was really no less than 6 feet tall, wouldn't somebody post a picture of him? And I don't mean this fake one which has already been retracted by the person who first posted it.

And, if the people fighting me don't have a picture of him, but you really believe he was 6 feet tall, then I have a suggestion for your dim minds:  

Go to Jim Bookhout. He's reachable. Explain why you need an image of his father- to silence one Ralph Cinque. So, could he please go through his family albums and come up with at least one image of his dad which shows his true height?

Simple. Easy. Doable. So, why the hell don't you do it???????

I'll tell you this: this isn't going to be decided by anybody's lip-flapping. It's going to be decided by images. Produce a valid image of James Bookhout. I'll say it again: Produce a valid image of James Bookhout. And, don't even think about pulling any fast ones. Remember who you are dealing with. 

Ralph:
Jim Bookhout was no less than 6 feet tall during the time of my contacts with him at the FBI during the period 1953 until he retired in 1977. 

I'll tell you what this amounts to: 

- Herr Miller? Herr Peter Miller?

- Yes.

- I wonder if we could talk somewhere? Your room, perhaps?

- We can talk here.

- Of course. My name is Schmidt. Dr. Schmidt.

- What do you want?

- Perhaps we can sit down. A very pleasant hotel, isn't it? 

- A little too solid for me. What is it that you want?

- You're a journalist, I am told. With a reputation for being very thorough,
very tenacious.


- What of it?
  
- Some friends of mine heard you are making an inquiry...
...into events that happened a long time ago.

- You mean Eduard Roschmann, don't you?

- I do. I most certainly do.

- So?

- Eduard Roschmann is dead!

- I didn't know that.

- Of course you didn't. There's no reason why you should. I thought I'd mention the fact because I didn't want you wasting your time.


-Tell me something, Dr. Schmidt, when exactly did he die?

-In May 1945, fighting the American advance.


- I'm sorry. You'll have to try harder. Roschmann was captured
by the British in December 1947.  Didn't your friends brief you properly
when they gave you this errand?

- Drop this inquiry!

- Roschmann was seen alive in Hamburg in November- this year. It was never confirmed. You just confirmed it. Good day, Herr Dr. Schmidt.

Brian Pete is now bitching about the height assessment, literally splitting hairs about the measurement. 

First, he thinks he has the right to claim that this picture isn't level. 

But, that is ridiculous. Bookhout's shoulders look perfectly square, and the man in front looks perfectly vertical in his axis. And what about the man behind Bookhout? He's not vertical enough, is he?

And this idea that people can't hold their cameras level and need this asshole to straighten out their pictures for them is a pile of shit. The fact is that your proprioception (position sense) is what enables you to hold your camera level. In this case, he was holding the camera perfectly level; he just wasn't squarely facing the wall. That's all. He was turned a little bit to his left. That's what it is. What a fucking Idiot. Backes Jr. That's who bpete is. 

There is absolutely nothing wrong with calling the top Bookhout's head level with the top of the elevator panel. You don't even have to draw a line. 

And then, get this: Look what the mudderplucker says:

This isn't just stupid; it's evil. Wicked, rotten, dastardly evil. I bet they have a special place in Hell for people like bpete.  

Jesus H. Christ. This moron is dense: 

So, the idea that the placing of handcuffs on Ruby happened while cops pounced on Ruby and he's still visible to cameramen is false. 

I've been complaining, bellyaching for months about the fact that they didn't handcuff "Ruby" immediately in the garage, when they should have since it's something that police always do and have always done with a violent offender throughout the annals of police history except for this one time. There are no other instances that anyone can point to in which police dragged a violent offender somewhere without cuffing him first.

This is MY complaint, and it has been MY complaint, from the beginning, you idiot! I'm complaining that they didn't cuff "Ruby" immediately, in view of the camera. And you have the nerve to act as though I claim that they did? 

What is wrong with you, you dumb pluck?

But yes, I do presume that Ruby responded verbally right away; at the commencement of the Charge in the Garage. That's because it was presumably a spontaneous utterance by him- part of the shock at being attacked. Why would he wait to respond? If he really didn't know why they were doing it, why wouldn't he say so right away? 

"Hey, what are you doing? This is me, Jack Ruby. You know me." 

That's how Ruby put it, and it's crazy to think he would have waited to say it. If somebody you know starts attacking you, you kinda want to know why they're doing it,  and you kinda want to know right away. And what does it mean? It means that Jack Ruby didn't know that he had done anything.  He didn't know why they were pouncing on him. That's why he asked. 

But, if he had shot Oswald, how could he not know? 

So, you're just back to your same old idiocy, misrepresenting my positions, and the spewing nonsense.

Ruby also said that police pushed him down to the ground. Down to the ground. And that's what we'd expect police to do: push the violent offender flat down on the ground, face down, get his hands behind his back, and then cuff him. But, the shooter in the garage was never pushed down to the ground. He was always on his feet. How could they have dragged him out of there so fast if he was pinned to the ground?

Can you, or can you not see that that man above is still on his feet? At no time was he pushed down to the ground in that garage. They didn't want him on the ground; they wanted him out of there. But, Ruby said, repeatedly, that police had him down on the ground. 

Then, the Idiot cites this letter. I wonder: did he read it? 

Nelson said he was stationed inside the building. Then, at 11:20, he heard a gunshot. Apparently, he didn't see what happened; he only heard it. He said it came from the area outside the basement doors, in contrast to himself who was inside the basement doors. He had to run to the doors from wherever he was inside. And when he got there, "several officers were subduing the suspect." He claimed that he "reached for the suspect's left hand and felt for a gun." But, the gun was in the shooter's right hand. Do I have to put up a fucking picture? 

"Ruby" didn't toss the gun to his other hand, did he? 

Besides, we know about the resolution of the gun: Graves took it away from "Ruby." Remember how Leavelle thanked his partner on national television. saying that he probably saved his life because, of course, "Ruby" was going to shoot again.

Here is Graves with the gun:

Do you, or do you not, see the fucking gun?????

Do you see it now? Do you, or do you not, see the gun in his hands now, you moron? 

Now, does that settle it as to who grabbed the gun from "Ruby" or do we have keep arguing about this?

So, RC Nelson wasn't even in the garage when the shot went off. He heard it inside the building, coming from the garage when he was inside. His first response was to go to the doors to keep reporters from coming in.  Then, he said that he saw several officers in front of him subduing the suspect. And that's when he claimed to feel for a gun in "Ruby's" left hand, which was the wrong hand. And note that he didn't claim to find a gun, and of course, he could not have found one since there was no gun in that hand, and the gun in his right hand was taken by LC Graves.

So, how does the above equate to Nelson claiming 50 years later to have been the one who"manhandled" Ruby into the building?

It's just bull shit. And don't forget: these are the same cops that, according to Backes, bull-shitted their way into telling a phony bus and cab ride story for Oswald, replete with phony witnesses and phony physical evidence. 

So, let's see, in the world according to Backes, the Dallas Police can be taken at their word in their account of the Oswald shooting, but when it came to Oswald's movements, they lied, lied, lied worse than Lyin' Ted Cruz. You just have to know when to believe them. Oh, and the Idiot knows.

OK, let's get back to Officer RC Nelson, Tippit's partner.

Alright, so he hasn't aged as gracefully as I have, but we won't belabor it.

But, here is something we will belabor: what he said at the time of the 50th. And that is what Jack Ruby said at the commencement of the Charge in the Garage. 

‘Hey guys it’s Jack. It’s me.’ 

Do you think this guy said that?

We certainly don't hear it in any of the films. Moreover, we have no visual indication that there was any verbal communication between the shooter and his captors. It looks as though the shooter, after shooting Oswald, dove into the swarm of police; they penguinized him, meaning, made like this:

Penguins do it to keep each other warm; they did it to cover up Bookhout and keep him out of sight.  

Then, according to Nelson, he, personally, "manhandled" Ruby into the building, and then cuffed him when they got inside. That's what he said. He didn't even mention the penguins. It's like he did it alone.

But, did he do it at all?  Is there any visual evidence that he was one of the penguins? In other words: do we see him? I see only one uniformed policeman engaged with the penguins. So, was this Nelson?

Notice that that guy is wearing a white hat, and Nelson, above and below, is wearing a black hat.

I presume that the hat color was not a matter of daily fashion preference, but rather your rank or assignment. Notice that his partner JD Tippit also wore a black hat.

So, apparently, patrol officers wore black hats. And, if he wore a black hat, he definitely wasn't that other guy who was involved in the melee, the only uniformed cop to be involved. That other guy looks like the one who did the interview afterwards. 

That guy can't be Nelson because Nelson had a very wide nose, and this guy doesn't. Furthermore, this guy was asked if Ruby said anything, and he said that he couldn't make out anything Ruby said- if he said anything. However, in contrast, Nelson said that he heard Ruby say, "Hey guys, it's Jack. It's me." Now, if he remembered that 50 years later, then surely he'd have remembered it 50 seconds later. Therefore, there is no basis to claim that this guy was Nelson.

And therefore, at this juncture, I have no basis to accept RC Nelson's claim of being the one to "manhandle" the shooter into the building. I don't see it. That is, I don't see him. And, I hope I don't have to spell out for you that when it comes to choosing between what people say and what my eyes see, I go with my eyes. I trust my eyes; I don't trust people. especially not JFK people. 

Yet, bear something in mind that is important: What Nelson said Ruby said, Ruby also said he said. What does that suggest? It suggests that he said it. And, that suggests that there was another enactment of this whole thing which involved the real Ruby. Obviously, he didn't shoot Oswald, since Oswald was alive for the historic one. But, maybe at that one, Nelson is the one who "manhandled" Ruby into the building and then cuffed him.  Exactly where and when that happened, I don't know. But somewhere, the real Ruby got pounced upon.

"Stay back, everybody. I know I'm an FBI agent and not a policeman and this is the Dallas Police Department. But, I can act like a cop because this whole fucking thing is an act. Everybody is acting."  

Look who I found at the Oswald shooting, walking around acting like a cop. 

That's FBI Agent Nat Pinkston.

It's him, alright.

And he had his arms out, like the cops, keeping people back. What the hell was he doing that for? He wasn't a cop. This wasn't an FBI raid. What was he even doing there? He was never directly involved with Oswald. He never attended a single interrogation of Oswald. Yet, he showed up for the jail transfer? So, we're supposed to believe that James Bookhout, who attended most all of the interrogations, decided to skip the jail transfer to instead hang around Fritz' office, while Nat Pinkston, who didn't attend any, showed up for it. I'll tell you why he showed up for it. It's because he knew God-damn well that his buddy James Bookhout was playing the role of Jack Ruby in this little farce.