Post by Rob Caprio on Apr 18, 2022 14:31:44 GMT -5
All portions ©️ Robert Caprio 2006-2024
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IF Jack Ruby was so torn up by President John F. Kennedy's (JFK) murder that he had to close his business over the weekend why was he so busy doing these things?
The night of the assassination, Ruby, along with George Senator, was directed to meet his employee, Larry Crafard at 5 a.m. in the Dallas garage. The three men talked for about an hour (as witnessed by the people working there) and then they drove Crafard to the Carousel. Later that morning, Crafard, left Dallas suddenly and mysteriously. He hitchhiked to a remote part of Michigan with just $7 dollars on him, and eventually was picked up by the FBI a few days after Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO). Crafard never reported what he might know to the authorities when hearing of the shooting.
Ruby went home after dropping Crafard off and got some sleep. A few hours later Ruby drove back to downtown Dallas and returned to the same garage he had met Crafard in earlier in the morning. The general manager and the attendant heard Ruby making phone calls. The attendant, Tom Brown, told the FBI that "he overheard Ruby inform the other party to the conversation as to the whereabouts of Chief of Police Curry." Subsequently, the general manager, Garnett C. Hallmark, heard Ruby discuss the transfer of LHO and tell the recipient of the call, "You know I will be there." (XV, 488-489,491-492)
He then went to Dealey Plaza around 3 p.m. where he surveyed the assassination site. A Dallas television reporter there told the FBI that he had observed Ruby approaching him, "from the rear of the TSBD." The WC failed to call this reporter and showed no curiosity as to why Ruby might have been behind the building, where the railroad yards are located. Instead the WC said Ruby had inspected memorial wreaths and became "filled with emotions." (XXVI, 346)
On Saturday evening, November 23, a witness, Wenda Helmick, overheard a telephone conversation between Ruby and his business associate, Ralph Paul. The WC will make it very hard to find her testimony, because when you look up Wenda Helmick in the index, you find "See Sweat, Wanda", which does not exist. Here is her testimony before the WC:
Q. Was Ralph Paul there at the booth with you?
Helmick: No, he was behind the counter, and Rose (the cashier) got up and went back there to do something, and she started talking to him, and the telephone rang, and she said, "It is for you. It is Jack." So he took the phone and he had been talking quite awhile, and he said something. He either said, "Are you crazy? A gun?" or something like that or he said something about a gun. Then he said, "Are you crazy?" But he did say something about a gun, and he asked him if he was crazy. (XV, 399)
The major reason I give this any credence is BECAUSE the WC tried to bury it. Helmick went on to say, that Paul left shortly after this call and the next day after the shooting, Paul was "popping off about this telephone call he had that night, and he told us he had talked with Jack and that they had talked about a gun, and that he had it in a dresser drawer or something like that, and that he didn't tell what he was going to do with it." (XXI, 431; XIV, 245, 253, 303)
The Warren Commission (WC) would eventually find that Ruby was too "moody and unstable" to have "encouraged the confidence of persons involved in a conspiracy." (XIV, 253) As Mark Lane pointed out in "Rush to Judgment", this was "absurd to suggest that Ruby's personality exonerated him from conspiracy - as if the Commission would accept only a more responsible and qualified person for the role." (page 271)
Throw in all the "stalking" Ruby did of LHO over the weekend and one can see this was not act of emotion. Also, as pointed out earlier, Ruby did make calls to the DPD warning them LHO would be shot if they moved him, as the cop who took the call later said the voice was familiar, and after the shooting, he matched it to Ruby's. Senator is useless as a witness when you consider that the other three people in Ruby's apartment that day prior to the shooting wound up dead (Bill Hunter, Jim Keothe, and Tom Howard), so it is obvious to me to assume one of two things, either Senator was involved in some small way or he was scared so much he lied through his teeth.
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IF Jack Ruby was so torn up by President John F. Kennedy's (JFK) murder that he had to close his business over the weekend why was he so busy doing these things?
The night of the assassination, Ruby, along with George Senator, was directed to meet his employee, Larry Crafard at 5 a.m. in the Dallas garage. The three men talked for about an hour (as witnessed by the people working there) and then they drove Crafard to the Carousel. Later that morning, Crafard, left Dallas suddenly and mysteriously. He hitchhiked to a remote part of Michigan with just $7 dollars on him, and eventually was picked up by the FBI a few days after Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO). Crafard never reported what he might know to the authorities when hearing of the shooting.
Ruby went home after dropping Crafard off and got some sleep. A few hours later Ruby drove back to downtown Dallas and returned to the same garage he had met Crafard in earlier in the morning. The general manager and the attendant heard Ruby making phone calls. The attendant, Tom Brown, told the FBI that "he overheard Ruby inform the other party to the conversation as to the whereabouts of Chief of Police Curry." Subsequently, the general manager, Garnett C. Hallmark, heard Ruby discuss the transfer of LHO and tell the recipient of the call, "You know I will be there." (XV, 488-489,491-492)
He then went to Dealey Plaza around 3 p.m. where he surveyed the assassination site. A Dallas television reporter there told the FBI that he had observed Ruby approaching him, "from the rear of the TSBD." The WC failed to call this reporter and showed no curiosity as to why Ruby might have been behind the building, where the railroad yards are located. Instead the WC said Ruby had inspected memorial wreaths and became "filled with emotions." (XXVI, 346)
On Saturday evening, November 23, a witness, Wenda Helmick, overheard a telephone conversation between Ruby and his business associate, Ralph Paul. The WC will make it very hard to find her testimony, because when you look up Wenda Helmick in the index, you find "See Sweat, Wanda", which does not exist. Here is her testimony before the WC:
Q. Was Ralph Paul there at the booth with you?
Helmick: No, he was behind the counter, and Rose (the cashier) got up and went back there to do something, and she started talking to him, and the telephone rang, and she said, "It is for you. It is Jack." So he took the phone and he had been talking quite awhile, and he said something. He either said, "Are you crazy? A gun?" or something like that or he said something about a gun. Then he said, "Are you crazy?" But he did say something about a gun, and he asked him if he was crazy. (XV, 399)
The major reason I give this any credence is BECAUSE the WC tried to bury it. Helmick went on to say, that Paul left shortly after this call and the next day after the shooting, Paul was "popping off about this telephone call he had that night, and he told us he had talked with Jack and that they had talked about a gun, and that he had it in a dresser drawer or something like that, and that he didn't tell what he was going to do with it." (XXI, 431; XIV, 245, 253, 303)
The Warren Commission (WC) would eventually find that Ruby was too "moody and unstable" to have "encouraged the confidence of persons involved in a conspiracy." (XIV, 253) As Mark Lane pointed out in "Rush to Judgment", this was "absurd to suggest that Ruby's personality exonerated him from conspiracy - as if the Commission would accept only a more responsible and qualified person for the role." (page 271)
Throw in all the "stalking" Ruby did of LHO over the weekend and one can see this was not act of emotion. Also, as pointed out earlier, Ruby did make calls to the DPD warning them LHO would be shot if they moved him, as the cop who took the call later said the voice was familiar, and after the shooting, he matched it to Ruby's. Senator is useless as a witness when you consider that the other three people in Ruby's apartment that day prior to the shooting wound up dead (Bill Hunter, Jim Keothe, and Tom Howard), so it is obvious to me to assume one of two things, either Senator was involved in some small way or he was scared so much he lied through his teeth.