Post by John Duncan on Apr 18, 2022 14:36:01 GMT -5
This is from Jon Armstrong's "Harvey & Lee" and pertains to telephone calls between Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Chuck Boyles ran a late night talk show on KLIF radio in Dallas and frequently discussed the assassination with callers. One evening an inidentified woman called and told Boyles, and the listening audience, there were telephone calls between Ruby and Oswald. The woman.explained that she worked as a telephone operator in the WHitehall.exchange and not only remembered the calls, but said the *telephone company had records of the calls.*
The woman explained that when Ruby tried to call Oswald, and was unable to get through because the pay phone Oswald was using was busy,.he would call the operator and tell her that his call was an emergency. The operator would then interrupt the call, ask the callers to get off the line, and make a record of the call as required by the phone company. The woman said that Ruby used this trick so frequently that she remembered his name and numerous calls.
These "emergency call records," mentioned by the unidentified telephone opreator, may have been given to the Dallas Police by the Area Commercial Manager of Southwestern Bell, Raymond A. Acker. Acker took the phone company records to the Dallas Police Department after the assassination and told the police they were proof of calls between Ruby and Oswald. Acker said that after he gave the records to the Dallas Police, *he was told to go home and keep his mouth shut.*
Phone calls within the Dallas area, which included Irving and Oak Cliff, were not toll calls and were not recorded by the phone company. The only local calls that were recorded by the phone company were "emergency" calls (which the operator said Ruby placed to Oswald).
Some of Jack Ruby's emergency phone call may have caused Oswald to return calls to the Carousel Club. In the days leading up to the assassination Ruby's handyman, Larry Crafard, received many calls from an unknown male who never identified himself or left a message. Crafard told the Warren Commission, "This gentleman would call maybe two or threee times a day asking for Jack. He would ask where he could reach Jack. It sounded like it was pretty important that he reach Jack, and that he would never leave a number where Jack could call him back at." When Crafard asked Ruby about these strange telephone calls he was told to mind his own business.
On November 26, 1963 Larry Crafard told SA John Flanagan that Jack Ruby's home phone number was WHitehall 1-5601. On November 29, 1963 Crafard told SA Theodore Cramer that Ruby's unlisted home telephone.number was WHitehall 1-1050. Oswald's rooming house was WH 3-8993. There is no indication the FBI checked telephone company records for emergency calls placed to or from these numbers.
Harvey and Lee pgs. 768-9
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These records are important, but the Warren Commission didn't publish them. Could it be that they did prove a connection between the two?
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Chuck Boyles ran a late night talk show on KLIF radio in Dallas and frequently discussed the assassination with callers. One evening an inidentified woman called and told Boyles, and the listening audience, there were telephone calls between Ruby and Oswald. The woman.explained that she worked as a telephone operator in the WHitehall.exchange and not only remembered the calls, but said the *telephone company had records of the calls.*
The woman explained that when Ruby tried to call Oswald, and was unable to get through because the pay phone Oswald was using was busy,.he would call the operator and tell her that his call was an emergency. The operator would then interrupt the call, ask the callers to get off the line, and make a record of the call as required by the phone company. The woman said that Ruby used this trick so frequently that she remembered his name and numerous calls.
These "emergency call records," mentioned by the unidentified telephone opreator, may have been given to the Dallas Police by the Area Commercial Manager of Southwestern Bell, Raymond A. Acker. Acker took the phone company records to the Dallas Police Department after the assassination and told the police they were proof of calls between Ruby and Oswald. Acker said that after he gave the records to the Dallas Police, *he was told to go home and keep his mouth shut.*
Phone calls within the Dallas area, which included Irving and Oak Cliff, were not toll calls and were not recorded by the phone company. The only local calls that were recorded by the phone company were "emergency" calls (which the operator said Ruby placed to Oswald).
Some of Jack Ruby's emergency phone call may have caused Oswald to return calls to the Carousel Club. In the days leading up to the assassination Ruby's handyman, Larry Crafard, received many calls from an unknown male who never identified himself or left a message. Crafard told the Warren Commission, "This gentleman would call maybe two or threee times a day asking for Jack. He would ask where he could reach Jack. It sounded like it was pretty important that he reach Jack, and that he would never leave a number where Jack could call him back at." When Crafard asked Ruby about these strange telephone calls he was told to mind his own business.
On November 26, 1963 Larry Crafard told SA John Flanagan that Jack Ruby's home phone number was WHitehall 1-5601. On November 29, 1963 Crafard told SA Theodore Cramer that Ruby's unlisted home telephone.number was WHitehall 1-1050. Oswald's rooming house was WH 3-8993. There is no indication the FBI checked telephone company records for emergency calls placed to or from these numbers.
Harvey and Lee pgs. 768-9
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These records are important, but the Warren Commission didn't publish them. Could it be that they did prove a connection between the two?