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Did Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) and Jack Ruby know each other before the assassination? This question has intrigued researchers for many years, but the official response is no.
Let’s look deeper and decide for ourselves about this matter.
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The Warren Commission (WC) said this about the question asked above:
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It [WC] was unable to find any credible evidence to support the rumors linking Oswald and Ruby directly or through others. The Commission concluded that they were not involved in a conspiratorial relationship with each other or with any third parties. (WC Report (WCR), p. 661)
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Well, that is cut and dried, huh? They even eliminated “third parties” from the mix. Yet, when one goes through their own internal memos they see Commission lawyers Burt Griffin and Leon Hubert argue for more investigation into this area. They wrote:
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In short, we believe the possibility exists, based on evidence already available, that Ruby was involved in illegal dealings with Cuban elements who might have had contact with Oswald.
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Does that sound cut and dried to you? Or does it suggest they already had evidence that showed a POSSIBLE connection between the two men may have existed before the assassination?
The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in its report would question the WC’s conclusion by pointing out:
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The Commission also found NO evidence that Ruby and Oswald had ever been acquainted, although the Commission acknowledged that they BOTH lived in Oak Cliff section of Dallas, [BOTH] had post office boxes at the Terminal Annex, and had possible but tenuous THIRD PARTY LINKS. These included Oswald’s landlady, Earlene Roberts, whose sister, Bertha Cheek, had VISITED RUBY at his nightclub on November 18, and a fellow boarder Oswald’s roominghouse, John Carter, who was friendly with a close friend and employee of Ruby, Wanda Killam. (HSCA Report (HSCAR), p. 148) (Emphasis mine)
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This statement by the HSCA pretty much shows the statement by the WC was incorrect as there were ties and avenues to investigate that could have shown the two men were acquainted, if even remotely, but the WC deliberately did NOT pursue them. Why? They could still argue both men were “lone nuts” even if they knew each other, couldn’t they? What was it about this connection that terrified the WC into hiding the possible connection from the American people?
The HSCA would also try and leave the impression that no link existed, but this statement does leave the possibility open:
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…the Committee’s investigation of Oswald and Ruby showed a variety of relationships that may have matured into an assassination conspiracy. Neither Oswald or Ruby turned out be “LONERS”, as they had been painted in the 1964 investigation. Nevertheless, the committee frankly acknowledged that it was unable firmly to identify the other gunman or the nature and extent of the conspiracy. (HSCAR, p. 180) (Emphasis mine)
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Wow! No wonder the WC defenders on this board and others stick with the WC’s work, huh? As I quoted before, General Edwin A. Walker himself said back in 1964 that they knew each other and he was well connected in Dallas. He told this to Jim Marrs in 1964:
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…The Warren Commission report was ridiculous and a sham as well as an insult to the public’s intelligence. Rubenstein (Ruby) KNEW Oswald; Oswald KNEW Rubenstein. The report would have to start all over on this basic fact. (emphasis mine)
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There is much more. Remember that Julia Ann Mercer IDENTIFIED both Ruby and LHO as the men she saw near the Triple Underpass with a rifle shortly before the assassination (in LHO’s case it could have been a look-a-like since the real LHO was inside the TSBD). Also, LHO’s mother, Marguerite, said she was shown a picture of Ruby the NIGHT BEFORE he shot LHO. Why was the FBI showing her this picture and asking IF she recognized him BEFORE he shot her son?
On November 26 Asst. DA William Alexander was quoted in the Dallas Morning News as follows:
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[Investigators] have received at least a hundred tips [linking Oswald to Jack Ruby] and are checking out each one. As far as I know none have panned out. (Dallas Morning News, November 26, 1963 editiion)
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This of course was NOT true. What was true was they were NOT pursuing them to find any connection. LBJ’s alleged mistress, Madeline Brown, even spoke of a connection between the two men. After a hard day at the advertising agency she worked for she said her and some co-workers would go to different places to unwind including the Carousel Club. She would say that one night in the spring of 1963 the conversation turned to speculation over who would have shot at Gen. Walker. According to her Ruby blurted out the name of LHO! She said she took note of the name because she had never heard it before and because Ruby seemed so sure of it.
She told this to Jim Marrs in an interview:
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I asked around and found out that many people knew that Oswald and Ruby knew each other. In fact, I just assumed everyone knew this. I was surprised when , well into the 1980s, I learned that officially they were not supposed to be connected.
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More interesting information comes from cab driver Raymond Cummings. During the Garrison investigation he saw a news story that included a picture of David Ferrie and the claim that Ferrie had never been in Dallas. Cummings would call Garrison to tell him he had driven Ferrie AND LHO to Ruby’s Carousel Club in the early part of 1963.
Probably some of the most convincing stories come from the employees of the Carousel Club. William D. Crowe, Jr. was a magician and entertainer who used the stage name of Bill DeMar. He was performing at the club at the time of the assassination. He would call a news media friend soon after LHO was arrested as he claimed that LHO had participated in his act just the previous week. On November 25 he told the Associated Press that he was “positive” that LHO had patronized Ruby’s club. He would state the following.
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I have a memory act in which I have 20 customers call out various objects in rapid order. Then I tell them at random what they called out. I am positive Oswald was one of the men that called out an object about nine days ago. (William Crowe Exhibit 2, p. 386)
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Crowe, a.k.a. DeMar, was known as a master hypnotist too, and of course some researchers have suggested that LHO was under some control in this area. A memo from CIA Director John McCone, dated March 3, 1964, to SS Chief James Rowley can be found in the National Archives. It states following his surgery at the Minsk hospital, Oswald might have been,
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"chemically or electronically 'knowledge abled'...a sleeper agent. Subject spent 11 days hospitalized for a 'minor ailment' which should have required no more than three days hospitalization at best"...
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Some research that I have read says that Jack Ruby too was put under hypnosis from time to time by some “performer” who was pretending to offer a casual audition for the Carousel Club. We will never know for sure the extent of this, but we now know that mind control is very real and something the CIA worked on for many years (Operations MK-Ultra, Artichoke, etc…).
Crowe would tell the Dallas Morning News that after his story appeared in the AP he was told by the FBI to check out of his hotel and to go into hiding. OF course he would be handy for the WC and they had him downplay his comments to them.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you remember when you first made any announcement concerning the possibility, at least, that Oswald was in the Carousel?
Mr. CROWE. Sunday afternoon.
Mr. HUBERT. Who did you make the observation to and how did it come about?
Mr. CROWE. To a television reporter, I guess it was.
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Mr. HUBERT. Now, what did the television man want to talk to you about, do you know? Or what did you talk to him about?
Mr. CROWE. Well, they had asked me who I was, and what I had to do with the club. I told them my name, what my job was, and I had mentioned that it was quite a series of coincidences as far as I was concerned because I had been in Washington during the inaugural of the President and then being in Dallas during the assassination of the President, and then having what I had thought or recalled, to have possibly seen Oswald in the club the week before and then working for the man who shot Oswald.
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Mr. HUBERT. I am sure you recall that the press shortly after 24th played up, snowballed, I think perhaps, as you called it, the fact that your memory act or memory gimmick as you now call it, gave you a special expertise, if it is called that, or special ability, in remembering faces that you had seen. Is that a fact or not? I mean, is it a fact that your act does give you that extra abnormal ability or not?
Mr. CROWE. No; it does not give me anything special. Using a gimmick or a method to do the memory stunt and that is it They built up the memory thing and they built up the bit of having seen Oswald in there, and I never stated definitely, positively, and they said that I did, and all in all, what they had in the paper was hardly even close to what I told them.
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Mr. CROWE. Well, I wouldn't say there was any, just facts. Like I stated before, the face seemed familiar as some faces do, and I had associated him with a patron that I had seen in the club a week before. That was about it.
We see the WC got him to amend his story to fit the outcome they wanted. Why would the AP add the word “positive” IF he did NOT say it? What was in it for them to misquote him?
Others that mentioned a connection were:
1) Robert K. Patterson –He was an electronic salesman who said he sold equipment to both Ruby and man who looked like LHO. The WC dismissed this man as being Larry Crafard, a Ruby employee, who even the WC said had a “strong resemblance” to LHO. Didn’t they find this odd or strange? Crafard would leave Dallas for the hinterlands of northern Michigan before being found and brought to the WC by the FBI. Why did he run?
2) Beverly Oliver –DP witness who would say Ruby introduced LHO to her as “Lee Oswald of the CIA.” She would also tell researcher Gary Shaw that she met David Ferrie in the Carousel Club too.
3) Karen Bennet Carlin—She danced at Ruby’s club under the name “Little Lynn” and was the woman Ruby sent money to minutes before shooting LHO. The FBI interviewed her on November 24, 1963 and they noted she seemed on “the verge of hysteria.” FBI agent Roger C Warner reported the following:
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Mrs. Carlin was highly agitated and was reluctant to make any statements to me. She stated to me that she was under the impression that Lee Oswald, Jake Ruby, and other individuals unknown to her, were involved in a plot to assassinate President Kennedy and that she would be killed if she gave any information to the authorities.
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4) Janet Adams Conforto—Jack Ruby dancer known as “Jada” would tell local newsman shortly after the assassination that she had seen LHO in the club.
4) Bill Willis—Musician at the club would say he saw LHO “sitting right in the corner of the [Club’s] stage and runway.
5) Kathy Kay—Ruby dancer would tell the Dallas Times Herald in 1975 that she recalled seeing LHO in the club and that she even danced with him.
6) Bobbie Louise Meserole—Dancer at the club under the name “Shari Angel” would corroborate Kathy Kay’s account by saying how they laughed at the order Ruby gave Kathy to “bump and grind” LHO to embarrass him.
7) Walter “Willy” Weston—Husband of “Shari Angel” and had been the club’s master of ceremonies until five days before the assassination. He would tell the New York Daily News in 1976 that one night while he was on stage a man walked up to the front of the stage and said to him, “I think you are a Communist.” He told the man he was an American and told him to sit down, but the man said he still thought he was a Communist. Weston then jumped off the stage and hit the man. Ruby was behind the man and fell into his arms when he was hit by Weston. Ruby grabbed him and said: “You [son of a bitch], I told you never to come in here.” The man was wrestled to the door and thrown down the steps. After the assassination Weston recognized the man as LHO.
8) Ester Ann Marsh—She said she served drinks at a meeting in the Carousel Club attended by “gangsters”, Ruby and LHO. She said he was so unusual and different from the others that he stood out. He drank beer instead of the hard drinks the others had. She said he was “wimpy-looking” and she remembers faces. She recognized him when he was arrested for shooting Tippit and eventually JFK.
9) Carroll Jarnigan—Attorney who claimed he visited the Carousel Club on 10/4/63 to discuss a legal case with one of the dancers at the club. While waiting for the dancer he sat in a booth and overheard Jack Ruby (whom he knew well) talking with another man. He heard the man tell Ruby, “Don’t use my real name. I’m going by the name O.H. Lee.” Of course LHO used this name to rent a room on North Beckly in Oak Cliff. He claims they were discussing plans to kill the Governor (Connally). He also heard Ruby offer LHO a “drug franchise.” Jarnigan would report this conversation to the police prior to the assassination, but nothing came of it. After seeing LHO’s picture in the media following the assassination he was sure it was the same man he saw and heard speaking with Ruby. He again called the authorities. But after speaking with the FBI and the DPD his account was buried in the volumes of the WC and left out of the WCR. He said the treatment he was given was definitely “abuse of a witness.”
10) Documents were found in the possession of a Dallas woman that included handwritten notes and other papers that showed a link between LHO and Ruby. Deputy Billy Preston and Constable Robie Love would give these documents to DA Henry Wade. Wade would tell the media he did NOT remember getting these documents. Others who saw the papers were deputy constables Mike Callahan and Ben Cash. Preston said the woman was really scared to hold onto these papers and he said he wished he had made more copies. Cash said he remembered they belonged to the woman’s roommate as she was keeping them for her Latin American boyfriend. He would tell reporter Earl Golz:
“The impression I got [was that] the papers were from the Latin American because he mentioned Ruby and he mentioned Oswald in the writings. He didn’t mention the third party but he kept referring to a third party. And the third party would have to be him.”
There were things like a press clippings from Mexico, a photocopy of a card with the words –“Daily Worker” issued to Ruby, a receipt for a motel in New Orleans dated several weeks before the assassination with both the names Ruby and Oswald on it, There were many other things in these boxes regarding landing strips in Mexico and supposed plans to assassinate JFK in Wisconsin.
There is ample evidence showing there was some kind of connection between LHO and Ruby to warrant a further investigation, but we have NOT seen it.
Quotes and references come from Jim Marrs' book - Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, pp. 403-411
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Did Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) and Jack Ruby know each other before the assassination? This question has intrigued researchers for many years, but the official response is no.
Let’s look deeper and decide for ourselves about this matter.
*******************************************
The Warren Commission (WC) said this about the question asked above:
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It [WC] was unable to find any credible evidence to support the rumors linking Oswald and Ruby directly or through others. The Commission concluded that they were not involved in a conspiratorial relationship with each other or with any third parties. (WC Report (WCR), p. 661)
www.historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wr/html/WCReport_0343a.htm
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Well, that is cut and dried, huh? They even eliminated “third parties” from the mix. Yet, when one goes through their own internal memos they see Commission lawyers Burt Griffin and Leon Hubert argue for more investigation into this area. They wrote:
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In short, we believe the possibility exists, based on evidence already available, that Ruby was involved in illegal dealings with Cuban elements who might have had contact with Oswald.
Quote off
Does that sound cut and dried to you? Or does it suggest they already had evidence that showed a POSSIBLE connection between the two men may have existed before the assassination?
The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in its report would question the WC’s conclusion by pointing out:
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The Commission also found NO evidence that Ruby and Oswald had ever been acquainted, although the Commission acknowledged that they BOTH lived in Oak Cliff section of Dallas, [BOTH] had post office boxes at the Terminal Annex, and had possible but tenuous THIRD PARTY LINKS. These included Oswald’s landlady, Earlene Roberts, whose sister, Bertha Cheek, had VISITED RUBY at his nightclub on November 18, and a fellow boarder Oswald’s roominghouse, John Carter, who was friendly with a close friend and employee of Ruby, Wanda Killam. (HSCA Report (HSCAR), p. 148) (Emphasis mine)
www.historymatters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/report/html/HSCA_Report_0089b.htm
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This statement by the HSCA pretty much shows the statement by the WC was incorrect as there were ties and avenues to investigate that could have shown the two men were acquainted, if even remotely, but the WC deliberately did NOT pursue them. Why? They could still argue both men were “lone nuts” even if they knew each other, couldn’t they? What was it about this connection that terrified the WC into hiding the possible connection from the American people?
The HSCA would also try and leave the impression that no link existed, but this statement does leave the possibility open:
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www.historymatters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/report/pages/HSCA_Report_0105b.gif
…the Committee’s investigation of Oswald and Ruby showed a variety of relationships that may have matured into an assassination conspiracy. Neither Oswald or Ruby turned out be “LONERS”, as they had been painted in the 1964 investigation. Nevertheless, the committee frankly acknowledged that it was unable firmly to identify the other gunman or the nature and extent of the conspiracy. (HSCAR, p. 180) (Emphasis mine)
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Wow! No wonder the WC defenders on this board and others stick with the WC’s work, huh? As I quoted before, General Edwin A. Walker himself said back in 1964 that they knew each other and he was well connected in Dallas. He told this to Jim Marrs in 1964:
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…The Warren Commission report was ridiculous and a sham as well as an insult to the public’s intelligence. Rubenstein (Ruby) KNEW Oswald; Oswald KNEW Rubenstein. The report would have to start all over on this basic fact. (emphasis mine)
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There is much more. Remember that Julia Ann Mercer IDENTIFIED both Ruby and LHO as the men she saw near the Triple Underpass with a rifle shortly before the assassination (in LHO’s case it could have been a look-a-like since the real LHO was inside the TSBD). Also, LHO’s mother, Marguerite, said she was shown a picture of Ruby the NIGHT BEFORE he shot LHO. Why was the FBI showing her this picture and asking IF she recognized him BEFORE he shot her son?
On November 26 Asst. DA William Alexander was quoted in the Dallas Morning News as follows:
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[Investigators] have received at least a hundred tips [linking Oswald to Jack Ruby] and are checking out each one. As far as I know none have panned out. (Dallas Morning News, November 26, 1963 editiion)
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This of course was NOT true. What was true was they were NOT pursuing them to find any connection. LBJ’s alleged mistress, Madeline Brown, even spoke of a connection between the two men. After a hard day at the advertising agency she worked for she said her and some co-workers would go to different places to unwind including the Carousel Club. She would say that one night in the spring of 1963 the conversation turned to speculation over who would have shot at Gen. Walker. According to her Ruby blurted out the name of LHO! She said she took note of the name because she had never heard it before and because Ruby seemed so sure of it.
She told this to Jim Marrs in an interview:
Quote on
I asked around and found out that many people knew that Oswald and Ruby knew each other. In fact, I just assumed everyone knew this. I was surprised when , well into the 1980s, I learned that officially they were not supposed to be connected.
Quote off
More interesting information comes from cab driver Raymond Cummings. During the Garrison investigation he saw a news story that included a picture of David Ferrie and the claim that Ferrie had never been in Dallas. Cummings would call Garrison to tell him he had driven Ferrie AND LHO to Ruby’s Carousel Club in the early part of 1963.
Probably some of the most convincing stories come from the employees of the Carousel Club. William D. Crowe, Jr. was a magician and entertainer who used the stage name of Bill DeMar. He was performing at the club at the time of the assassination. He would call a news media friend soon after LHO was arrested as he claimed that LHO had participated in his act just the previous week. On November 25 he told the Associated Press that he was “positive” that LHO had patronized Ruby’s club. He would state the following.
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I have a memory act in which I have 20 customers call out various objects in rapid order. Then I tell them at random what they called out. I am positive Oswald was one of the men that called out an object about nine days ago. (William Crowe Exhibit 2, p. 386)
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/html/WH_Vol19_0202b.htm
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Crowe, a.k.a. DeMar, was known as a master hypnotist too, and of course some researchers have suggested that LHO was under some control in this area. A memo from CIA Director John McCone, dated March 3, 1964, to SS Chief James Rowley can be found in the National Archives. It states following his surgery at the Minsk hospital, Oswald might have been,
Quote on
"chemically or electronically 'knowledge abled'...a sleeper agent. Subject spent 11 days hospitalized for a 'minor ailment' which should have required no more than three days hospitalization at best"...
Quote off
Some research that I have read says that Jack Ruby too was put under hypnosis from time to time by some “performer” who was pretending to offer a casual audition for the Carousel Club. We will never know for sure the extent of this, but we now know that mind control is very real and something the CIA worked on for many years (Operations MK-Ultra, Artichoke, etc…).
Crowe would tell the Dallas Morning News that after his story appeared in the AP he was told by the FBI to check out of his hotel and to go into hiding. OF course he would be handy for the WC and they had him downplay his comments to them.
Mr. HUBERT. Do you remember when you first made any announcement concerning the possibility, at least, that Oswald was in the Carousel?
Mr. CROWE. Sunday afternoon.
Mr. HUBERT. Who did you make the observation to and how did it come about?
Mr. CROWE. To a television reporter, I guess it was.
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Mr. HUBERT. Now, what did the television man want to talk to you about, do you know? Or what did you talk to him about?
Mr. CROWE. Well, they had asked me who I was, and what I had to do with the club. I told them my name, what my job was, and I had mentioned that it was quite a series of coincidences as far as I was concerned because I had been in Washington during the inaugural of the President and then being in Dallas during the assassination of the President, and then having what I had thought or recalled, to have possibly seen Oswald in the club the week before and then working for the man who shot Oswald.
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Mr. HUBERT. I am sure you recall that the press shortly after 24th played up, snowballed, I think perhaps, as you called it, the fact that your memory act or memory gimmick as you now call it, gave you a special expertise, if it is called that, or special ability, in remembering faces that you had seen. Is that a fact or not? I mean, is it a fact that your act does give you that extra abnormal ability or not?
Mr. CROWE. No; it does not give me anything special. Using a gimmick or a method to do the memory stunt and that is it They built up the memory thing and they built up the bit of having seen Oswald in there, and I never stated definitely, positively, and they said that I did, and all in all, what they had in the paper was hardly even close to what I told them.
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Mr. CROWE. Well, I wouldn't say there was any, just facts. Like I stated before, the face seemed familiar as some faces do, and I had associated him with a patron that I had seen in the club a week before. That was about it.
We see the WC got him to amend his story to fit the outcome they wanted. Why would the AP add the word “positive” IF he did NOT say it? What was in it for them to misquote him?
Others that mentioned a connection were:
1) Robert K. Patterson –He was an electronic salesman who said he sold equipment to both Ruby and man who looked like LHO. The WC dismissed this man as being Larry Crafard, a Ruby employee, who even the WC said had a “strong resemblance” to LHO. Didn’t they find this odd or strange? Crafard would leave Dallas for the hinterlands of northern Michigan before being found and brought to the WC by the FBI. Why did he run?
2) Beverly Oliver –DP witness who would say Ruby introduced LHO to her as “Lee Oswald of the CIA.” She would also tell researcher Gary Shaw that she met David Ferrie in the Carousel Club too.
3) Karen Bennet Carlin—She danced at Ruby’s club under the name “Little Lynn” and was the woman Ruby sent money to minutes before shooting LHO. The FBI interviewed her on November 24, 1963 and they noted she seemed on “the verge of hysteria.” FBI agent Roger C Warner reported the following:
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Mrs. Carlin was highly agitated and was reluctant to make any statements to me. She stated to me that she was under the impression that Lee Oswald, Jake Ruby, and other individuals unknown to her, were involved in a plot to assassinate President Kennedy and that she would be killed if she gave any information to the authorities.
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4) Janet Adams Conforto—Jack Ruby dancer known as “Jada” would tell local newsman shortly after the assassination that she had seen LHO in the club.
4) Bill Willis—Musician at the club would say he saw LHO “sitting right in the corner of the [Club’s] stage and runway.
5) Kathy Kay—Ruby dancer would tell the Dallas Times Herald in 1975 that she recalled seeing LHO in the club and that she even danced with him.
6) Bobbie Louise Meserole—Dancer at the club under the name “Shari Angel” would corroborate Kathy Kay’s account by saying how they laughed at the order Ruby gave Kathy to “bump and grind” LHO to embarrass him.
7) Walter “Willy” Weston—Husband of “Shari Angel” and had been the club’s master of ceremonies until five days before the assassination. He would tell the New York Daily News in 1976 that one night while he was on stage a man walked up to the front of the stage and said to him, “I think you are a Communist.” He told the man he was an American and told him to sit down, but the man said he still thought he was a Communist. Weston then jumped off the stage and hit the man. Ruby was behind the man and fell into his arms when he was hit by Weston. Ruby grabbed him and said: “You [son of a bitch], I told you never to come in here.” The man was wrestled to the door and thrown down the steps. After the assassination Weston recognized the man as LHO.
8) Ester Ann Marsh—She said she served drinks at a meeting in the Carousel Club attended by “gangsters”, Ruby and LHO. She said he was so unusual and different from the others that he stood out. He drank beer instead of the hard drinks the others had. She said he was “wimpy-looking” and she remembers faces. She recognized him when he was arrested for shooting Tippit and eventually JFK.
9) Carroll Jarnigan—Attorney who claimed he visited the Carousel Club on 10/4/63 to discuss a legal case with one of the dancers at the club. While waiting for the dancer he sat in a booth and overheard Jack Ruby (whom he knew well) talking with another man. He heard the man tell Ruby, “Don’t use my real name. I’m going by the name O.H. Lee.” Of course LHO used this name to rent a room on North Beckly in Oak Cliff. He claims they were discussing plans to kill the Governor (Connally). He also heard Ruby offer LHO a “drug franchise.” Jarnigan would report this conversation to the police prior to the assassination, but nothing came of it. After seeing LHO’s picture in the media following the assassination he was sure it was the same man he saw and heard speaking with Ruby. He again called the authorities. But after speaking with the FBI and the DPD his account was buried in the volumes of the WC and left out of the WCR. He said the treatment he was given was definitely “abuse of a witness.”
10) Documents were found in the possession of a Dallas woman that included handwritten notes and other papers that showed a link between LHO and Ruby. Deputy Billy Preston and Constable Robie Love would give these documents to DA Henry Wade. Wade would tell the media he did NOT remember getting these documents. Others who saw the papers were deputy constables Mike Callahan and Ben Cash. Preston said the woman was really scared to hold onto these papers and he said he wished he had made more copies. Cash said he remembered they belonged to the woman’s roommate as she was keeping them for her Latin American boyfriend. He would tell reporter Earl Golz:
“The impression I got [was that] the papers were from the Latin American because he mentioned Ruby and he mentioned Oswald in the writings. He didn’t mention the third party but he kept referring to a third party. And the third party would have to be him.”
There were things like a press clippings from Mexico, a photocopy of a card with the words –“Daily Worker” issued to Ruby, a receipt for a motel in New Orleans dated several weeks before the assassination with both the names Ruby and Oswald on it, There were many other things in these boxes regarding landing strips in Mexico and supposed plans to assassinate JFK in Wisconsin.
There is ample evidence showing there was some kind of connection between LHO and Ruby to warrant a further investigation, but we have NOT seen it.
Quotes and references come from Jim Marrs' book - Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, pp. 403-411