Post by Rob Caprio on Mar 29, 2023 19:41:41 GMT -5
The Conspiracy To Murder Lee Harvey Oswald
By Gil Jesus (2023)
The Warren Commission found that Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police headquarters was a spontaneous act, a twist of fate that allowed Ruby to walk through a garage door and down a ramp to be in perfect position to shoot Oswald just minutes before police brought him out.
For years the Commission's supporters have supported that position by arguing that Ruby could not possibly have known WHEN the transfer was going to occur. They bolster their argument with the fact that Ruby visited a Western Union office to wire some money to one of his showgirls before going to the police station.
They argue, quite rightly, that since the transfer was to occur sometime after 10am, one would expect Ruby to be in position in the basement at that time, not at Western Union.
But if Ruby conspired with the Dallas Police to kill Oswald during the transfer, he wouldn't have to KNOW when police were moving Oswald if it was understood that police would simply wait for Ruby to get into position before bringing Oswald down.
In order to wait for Ruby to get into position, all police had to do was to delay the transfer by additional interrogation of Oswald on the morning of the transfer until they got the "all set" signal to move him.
The "all set" didn't mean the transport car was in position because it wasn't, as is evident in this video.
I suggest that the "all clear" signal meant that Ruby was in position and they could bring Oswald down.
If I'm right about that, the Commission's supporters' timing argument is thereby nullified.
I believe that the evidence shows that there was a conspiracy to kill Oswald before police surrendered custody of him to the Sheriff's Department.
And I am prepared to identify the persons I believe were involved in this conspiracy by name, beginning with the police officers, including the one who planned the transfer, Police Chief Jesse Curry.
Chief Jesse Curry
Chief Curry, like many of his officers, was not a supporter of President Kennedy. His preference and loyalty was to Lyndon Johnson. At the time a Presidential assassin and cop-killer was loose in his city, Curry's priority was not to lead his department in the capture of the murderer, but instead to drive Lyndon Johnson to Love Field and to stand by aboard Air Force 1 and be photographed during Johnson's swearing-in.
There are several reasons why I place Curry in this conspiracy.
It was Curry who planned the transfer.
Curry who took his phone off the hook and was unavailable to his own department once he went home. This made it impossible for a nighttime transfer when police received death threats against Oswald.
Curry's promise to the press that Oswald would be transferred in front of them meant more than the protection of his prisoner.
It was Curry who came into Capt. J.Will Fritz's office on Sunday morning and told Fritz that everything in the basement was "all set" for the transfer. (4 H 233) That fact is corroborated by Detective L.C.Graves, who told the Commission that, "Chief Curry told Capt. Fritz that the security was taken care of." (13 H 7)
Several witnesses who were in Fritz's office testified that Curry also had a secret meeting off to the side with Fritz and they spoke low enough so that no one else could hear.
Harry Holmes:
"Chief Curry came around the other side of the desk and took Will Fritz over in the corner and they bowed their heads and discussed in an undertone......they were mumbling in an undertone and I didn't distinguish one thing that was said." (7 H 301)
Detective L. D. Montgomery:
"...I didn't hear the Chief say anything because he was talking to the Captain, and when the Chief and the Captain talk --- they were kind of talking low and I wasn't straining my ears to hear..." (13 H 26)
Neither Capt. Fritz nor Chief Curry mentioned this secret conversation that took place in the corner in Fritz's office and neither were asked about it by the Commission's counsel.
In addition, Detective L.C. Graves, who was outside Fritz's office, testified that Chief Curry, "made a number of trips there (to Fritz's office) during the time he (Oswald) was being interviewed." (13 H 4)
Was Curry beginning to panic because Ruby had not yet showed up?
Oswald had been removed from his cell at 9:30 am for a short interrogation before the scheduled transfer at 10 am. But Jack Ruby was not in the basement yet, so the transfer had to be delayed. The excuse for that delay was additional interrogation of Oswald.
This additional interrogation of Oswald was totally unnecessary, because there was no law against the Dallas Police going to the County Jail to question Oswald if they needed to. Fritz admitted such during his testimony. (4 H 234)
So the additional interrogation was unnecessary. The Dallas Police could have transferred Oswald at 10 am as scheduled, except for the absence of Ruby in the basement.
The man responsible for stalling the transfer until Ruby was in the basement was Capt. J. Will Fritz.
Capt. J. Will Fritz
For a police conspiracy to kill Oswald to succeed, there had to be someone in charge who could stall the transfer long enough until Jack Ruby got into the basement.
That man was Capt. Fritz.
According to Harry Holmes, while officers outside his office were getting restless to begin the transfer, Fritz stalled them by saying, "We are going to have a little while to talk. I don't know how long, because they want to effect this transfer." (7 H 300)
What did he mean by that? Effect it in what way?
He was never asked.
Fritz told many lies to the Commission like when asked if the transfer car was in position when he came out of the jail office.
Mr BALL. Was the car there that you were going to get in?
Mr. FRITZ. Yes sir. (4 H 243)
It was Fritz who gave the final "OK" for Leavelle and Graves to bring Oswald out of the jail office and into the basement.
Even if Fritz didn't know Ruby by sight, he had a Lieutenant in front of him who did. Lt. Richard E. Swain, who preceded Fritz into the basement, was never called by the Warren Commission to testify.
In this video, we see Lt. Swain enter first, then Capt. Fritz enters the basement, looks in the direction of Jack Ruby and then turns back and nods for Leavelle and Graves to bring out Oswald.
It's very easy for one to conclude from this video that despite his testimony to the contrary, Capt. Fritz knew who Jack Ruby was. He saw him in the crowd, knew who he was and what he was going to do, and ok'd his men to bring out Oswald.
Fritz also gave different reasons for delaying the transfer. Henry Wade wanted to move Oswald on the evening of November 22, but Fritz told him that "Sheriff Bill Decker did not like for prisoners to be moved in the nighttime." (CD 4, pg. 32)
But there's other evidence that a nighttime transfer was not Decker's decision to make.
Decker testified that when he heard from a reporter about the transfer being done at 10 am Sunday morning, he called the police station and was told, "that he wouldn't be moved that night and that's all there was to it." (12 H 47)
However Decker felt about moving a prisoner in the nighttime, it took a back seat to his concern for the safety of the prisoner once threats were received.
It was Decker who suggested that Oswald be moved immediately once he was notified by the FBI that death threats had been made against Oswald.
Mr. DECKER. Yes it was in the morning, 12:30 in the morning.
Mr. HUBERT. It was your suggestion that he should be moved immediately?
Mr. Decker. Yes Sir. (12 H 49)
If Fritz lied to Wade about Decker being against a nighttime transfer, he lied to Curry about not being ready to transfer the prisoner until 10 am Sunday morning.
Chief Curry and Fritz allegedly had a conversation about transferring Oswald at 4 pm on Saturday afternoon, but Fritz said they were still questioning him. It was at that time Fritz agreed that they could transfer him at 10 am on Sunday.(4 H 233)
The excuse that Oswald was not transferred sooner because they need to further question him is, in my opinion, not an excuse at all.
Sheriff Decker testified that Police could have questioned Oswald at the County Jail after the transfer anytime they wanted to. (12 H 49)
Fritz corroborated this when asked what would he have done once the prisoner was transferred and he had more questions. He testified that, "I would have talked to him later in the county jail." (4 H 234)
So why didn't they transfer Oswald earlier? Why wait to do the transfer on Sunday?
Because Fritz wanted to wait until Sunday when Lt. Wiggins was back from his days off and was scheduled to be in the jail office.
Wiggins "had known Jack Ruby for years", ( 12 H 393 ) and would have been able to tell them when Ruby was in the basement.
In order for this conspiracy to be successful, there had to be a "set of eyes" in the basement who would notify upstairs that Ruby was in position.
Since Oswald was being interrogated on the third floor, Chief Curry needed someone to let him know WHEN Ruby was in position so he could relay that to Fritz. It had to be someone who knew Ruby.
That man was Lt. Woodrow Wiggins, a "floating" supervisor, who on the day of the transfer, was filling in for the jail office supervisor.
Lt. Woodrow Wiggins
Lt. Wiggins was what we call a "floating" supervisor, filling in for other department supervisors on their days off.
Sunday, November 24th was his first day back to work after his own two days off and placed him in the jail office covering for that supervisor's day off. (12 H 389)
Not only did his assignment in the jail office allow Wiggins to know where Oswald was in the building, it put Wiggins in the perfect position of checking the adjacent basement to see if Ruby was there.
In his testimony, Wiggins admitted that although he had no role in the transfer and did not take part in securing it, he "was in and out of the basement looking it over." (12 H 390)
Looking it over for what ? Or should I say, for whom?
He was never asked.
Wiggins testified that he received a call from upstairs saying they were bringing Oswald down and as soon as he hung up, he noticed the indicator lights on the elevator showing it was on its way. (12 H 391) This would imply that Fritz et al were already on their way down when the call was made.
In his report to Chief Curry for the record, he said, "I do not remember who called me". ( 21 H 729 ) But six days later his memory seemed to improve enough to take a guess at who called him when he told the FBI, "it might have been Lt. Wells." (21 H 731)
The report of Lt. T.L. Baker said that prior to leaving the office, Fritz told a Detective named Baker to call the jail office. During that conversation, Wiggins "said all was clear" and Baker told him they were "leaving with Oswald and to have the cars ready." (Dallas Police Box 5, pg. 307)
This report indicates that Wiggins told them, "all was clear" BEFORE they left Fritz's office and well enough in advance to move the cars into position. It blows away Wiggins' account of the call being made as they were on their way.
BTW, neither Lt. Baker nor Detective Baker were called to testify.
Wiggins also testified that once they got off the elevator, Fritz asked him again, "are they ready ?" at which time he stepped out of the door and into the corridor first. He said that although he could not remember whether or not he answered Fritz, he was sure if he did answer him, he told them that they were ready. (12 H 392)
I suggest that Wiggins went out the door and into the basement, saw Ruby and told Fritz "they" were ready.
But Wiggins didn't have the cars ready, as evident in the video of Oswald's murder. Sgt. James Leavelle testified that, "we were given to understand that the car would be across the passageway". He added that Capt. Fritz said, "Everything is all set", but he (Leavelle) was, "surprised when I walked to the door and the car was not in the spot it should have been." (13 H 17)
In spite of the car not being in position for the transfer, Fritz, instead of delaying Oswald's advance into the basement until the car was in position, came into the basement, looked in Jack Ruby's direction and turned back and nodded for his detectives to bring Oswald into the basement.
To "Keep Him From Getting Away"
According to his testimony, Detective L.D. Montgomery was placed by Fritz behind Oswald during the transfer in order to, "make sure he didn't get away." (13 H 27)
This of course was in spite of the fact that there were anywhere from 60 to 75 armed police in the basement and Oswald's right arm was handcuffed to Leavelle and Graves had his left arm.
Oswald wasn't going anywhere.
When asked by Counsel Bert Griffin if he felt that his primary reason for being behind Oswald was to prevent him from getting away rather than to prevent anyone from getting at him, Montgomery replied, "keep him from getting away". (Ibid.)
Montgomery was there to prevent Oswald from breaking loose from Graves and jumping behind Leavelle, which he might have done had he seen Ruby coming at him with a gun.
Montgomery was NOT there to protect the prisoner.
With this configuration, Fritz guaranteed that when Ruby ambushed Oswald, Oswald was boxed in and would have no means to escape.
The police couldn't kill Oswald themselves. This case was too high profile for Oswald to end up hanging in his cell.
Oswald had to be killed by someone on the outside. Someone who shared the police department's level of corruption and lack of morals.
That task fell on the shoulders of a cop lover and strip club owner named Jack Ruby.
Coming in Part II: Corruption: The Foundation for Murder
By Gil Jesus (2023)
The Warren Commission found that Jack Ruby's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police headquarters was a spontaneous act, a twist of fate that allowed Ruby to walk through a garage door and down a ramp to be in perfect position to shoot Oswald just minutes before police brought him out.
For years the Commission's supporters have supported that position by arguing that Ruby could not possibly have known WHEN the transfer was going to occur. They bolster their argument with the fact that Ruby visited a Western Union office to wire some money to one of his showgirls before going to the police station.
They argue, quite rightly, that since the transfer was to occur sometime after 10am, one would expect Ruby to be in position in the basement at that time, not at Western Union.
But if Ruby conspired with the Dallas Police to kill Oswald during the transfer, he wouldn't have to KNOW when police were moving Oswald if it was understood that police would simply wait for Ruby to get into position before bringing Oswald down.
In order to wait for Ruby to get into position, all police had to do was to delay the transfer by additional interrogation of Oswald on the morning of the transfer until they got the "all set" signal to move him.
The "all set" didn't mean the transport car was in position because it wasn't, as is evident in this video.
I suggest that the "all clear" signal meant that Ruby was in position and they could bring Oswald down.
If I'm right about that, the Commission's supporters' timing argument is thereby nullified.
I believe that the evidence shows that there was a conspiracy to kill Oswald before police surrendered custody of him to the Sheriff's Department.
And I am prepared to identify the persons I believe were involved in this conspiracy by name, beginning with the police officers, including the one who planned the transfer, Police Chief Jesse Curry.
Chief Jesse Curry
Chief Curry, like many of his officers, was not a supporter of President Kennedy. His preference and loyalty was to Lyndon Johnson. At the time a Presidential assassin and cop-killer was loose in his city, Curry's priority was not to lead his department in the capture of the murderer, but instead to drive Lyndon Johnson to Love Field and to stand by aboard Air Force 1 and be photographed during Johnson's swearing-in.
There are several reasons why I place Curry in this conspiracy.
It was Curry who planned the transfer.
Curry who took his phone off the hook and was unavailable to his own department once he went home. This made it impossible for a nighttime transfer when police received death threats against Oswald.
Curry's promise to the press that Oswald would be transferred in front of them meant more than the protection of his prisoner.
It was Curry who came into Capt. J.Will Fritz's office on Sunday morning and told Fritz that everything in the basement was "all set" for the transfer. (4 H 233) That fact is corroborated by Detective L.C.Graves, who told the Commission that, "Chief Curry told Capt. Fritz that the security was taken care of." (13 H 7)
Several witnesses who were in Fritz's office testified that Curry also had a secret meeting off to the side with Fritz and they spoke low enough so that no one else could hear.
Harry Holmes:
"Chief Curry came around the other side of the desk and took Will Fritz over in the corner and they bowed their heads and discussed in an undertone......they were mumbling in an undertone and I didn't distinguish one thing that was said." (7 H 301)
Detective L. D. Montgomery:
"...I didn't hear the Chief say anything because he was talking to the Captain, and when the Chief and the Captain talk --- they were kind of talking low and I wasn't straining my ears to hear..." (13 H 26)
Neither Capt. Fritz nor Chief Curry mentioned this secret conversation that took place in the corner in Fritz's office and neither were asked about it by the Commission's counsel.
In addition, Detective L.C. Graves, who was outside Fritz's office, testified that Chief Curry, "made a number of trips there (to Fritz's office) during the time he (Oswald) was being interviewed." (13 H 4)
Was Curry beginning to panic because Ruby had not yet showed up?
Oswald had been removed from his cell at 9:30 am for a short interrogation before the scheduled transfer at 10 am. But Jack Ruby was not in the basement yet, so the transfer had to be delayed. The excuse for that delay was additional interrogation of Oswald.
This additional interrogation of Oswald was totally unnecessary, because there was no law against the Dallas Police going to the County Jail to question Oswald if they needed to. Fritz admitted such during his testimony. (4 H 234)
So the additional interrogation was unnecessary. The Dallas Police could have transferred Oswald at 10 am as scheduled, except for the absence of Ruby in the basement.
The man responsible for stalling the transfer until Ruby was in the basement was Capt. J. Will Fritz.
Capt. J. Will Fritz
For a police conspiracy to kill Oswald to succeed, there had to be someone in charge who could stall the transfer long enough until Jack Ruby got into the basement.
That man was Capt. Fritz.
According to Harry Holmes, while officers outside his office were getting restless to begin the transfer, Fritz stalled them by saying, "We are going to have a little while to talk. I don't know how long, because they want to effect this transfer." (7 H 300)
What did he mean by that? Effect it in what way?
He was never asked.
Fritz told many lies to the Commission like when asked if the transfer car was in position when he came out of the jail office.
Mr BALL. Was the car there that you were going to get in?
Mr. FRITZ. Yes sir. (4 H 243)
It was Fritz who gave the final "OK" for Leavelle and Graves to bring Oswald out of the jail office and into the basement.
Even if Fritz didn't know Ruby by sight, he had a Lieutenant in front of him who did. Lt. Richard E. Swain, who preceded Fritz into the basement, was never called by the Warren Commission to testify.
In this video, we see Lt. Swain enter first, then Capt. Fritz enters the basement, looks in the direction of Jack Ruby and then turns back and nods for Leavelle and Graves to bring out Oswald.
It's very easy for one to conclude from this video that despite his testimony to the contrary, Capt. Fritz knew who Jack Ruby was. He saw him in the crowd, knew who he was and what he was going to do, and ok'd his men to bring out Oswald.
Fritz also gave different reasons for delaying the transfer. Henry Wade wanted to move Oswald on the evening of November 22, but Fritz told him that "Sheriff Bill Decker did not like for prisoners to be moved in the nighttime." (CD 4, pg. 32)
But there's other evidence that a nighttime transfer was not Decker's decision to make.
Decker testified that when he heard from a reporter about the transfer being done at 10 am Sunday morning, he called the police station and was told, "that he wouldn't be moved that night and that's all there was to it." (12 H 47)
However Decker felt about moving a prisoner in the nighttime, it took a back seat to his concern for the safety of the prisoner once threats were received.
It was Decker who suggested that Oswald be moved immediately once he was notified by the FBI that death threats had been made against Oswald.
Mr. DECKER. Yes it was in the morning, 12:30 in the morning.
Mr. HUBERT. It was your suggestion that he should be moved immediately?
Mr. Decker. Yes Sir. (12 H 49)
If Fritz lied to Wade about Decker being against a nighttime transfer, he lied to Curry about not being ready to transfer the prisoner until 10 am Sunday morning.
Chief Curry and Fritz allegedly had a conversation about transferring Oswald at 4 pm on Saturday afternoon, but Fritz said they were still questioning him. It was at that time Fritz agreed that they could transfer him at 10 am on Sunday.(4 H 233)
The excuse that Oswald was not transferred sooner because they need to further question him is, in my opinion, not an excuse at all.
Sheriff Decker testified that Police could have questioned Oswald at the County Jail after the transfer anytime they wanted to. (12 H 49)
Fritz corroborated this when asked what would he have done once the prisoner was transferred and he had more questions. He testified that, "I would have talked to him later in the county jail." (4 H 234)
So why didn't they transfer Oswald earlier? Why wait to do the transfer on Sunday?
Because Fritz wanted to wait until Sunday when Lt. Wiggins was back from his days off and was scheduled to be in the jail office.
Wiggins "had known Jack Ruby for years", ( 12 H 393 ) and would have been able to tell them when Ruby was in the basement.
In order for this conspiracy to be successful, there had to be a "set of eyes" in the basement who would notify upstairs that Ruby was in position.
Since Oswald was being interrogated on the third floor, Chief Curry needed someone to let him know WHEN Ruby was in position so he could relay that to Fritz. It had to be someone who knew Ruby.
That man was Lt. Woodrow Wiggins, a "floating" supervisor, who on the day of the transfer, was filling in for the jail office supervisor.
Lt. Woodrow Wiggins
Lt. Wiggins was what we call a "floating" supervisor, filling in for other department supervisors on their days off.
Sunday, November 24th was his first day back to work after his own two days off and placed him in the jail office covering for that supervisor's day off. (12 H 389)
Not only did his assignment in the jail office allow Wiggins to know where Oswald was in the building, it put Wiggins in the perfect position of checking the adjacent basement to see if Ruby was there.
In his testimony, Wiggins admitted that although he had no role in the transfer and did not take part in securing it, he "was in and out of the basement looking it over." (12 H 390)
Looking it over for what ? Or should I say, for whom?
He was never asked.
Wiggins testified that he received a call from upstairs saying they were bringing Oswald down and as soon as he hung up, he noticed the indicator lights on the elevator showing it was on its way. (12 H 391) This would imply that Fritz et al were already on their way down when the call was made.
In his report to Chief Curry for the record, he said, "I do not remember who called me". ( 21 H 729 ) But six days later his memory seemed to improve enough to take a guess at who called him when he told the FBI, "it might have been Lt. Wells." (21 H 731)
The report of Lt. T.L. Baker said that prior to leaving the office, Fritz told a Detective named Baker to call the jail office. During that conversation, Wiggins "said all was clear" and Baker told him they were "leaving with Oswald and to have the cars ready." (Dallas Police Box 5, pg. 307)
This report indicates that Wiggins told them, "all was clear" BEFORE they left Fritz's office and well enough in advance to move the cars into position. It blows away Wiggins' account of the call being made as they were on their way.
BTW, neither Lt. Baker nor Detective Baker were called to testify.
Wiggins also testified that once they got off the elevator, Fritz asked him again, "are they ready ?" at which time he stepped out of the door and into the corridor first. He said that although he could not remember whether or not he answered Fritz, he was sure if he did answer him, he told them that they were ready. (12 H 392)
I suggest that Wiggins went out the door and into the basement, saw Ruby and told Fritz "they" were ready.
But Wiggins didn't have the cars ready, as evident in the video of Oswald's murder. Sgt. James Leavelle testified that, "we were given to understand that the car would be across the passageway". He added that Capt. Fritz said, "Everything is all set", but he (Leavelle) was, "surprised when I walked to the door and the car was not in the spot it should have been." (13 H 17)
In spite of the car not being in position for the transfer, Fritz, instead of delaying Oswald's advance into the basement until the car was in position, came into the basement, looked in Jack Ruby's direction and turned back and nodded for his detectives to bring Oswald into the basement.
To "Keep Him From Getting Away"
According to his testimony, Detective L.D. Montgomery was placed by Fritz behind Oswald during the transfer in order to, "make sure he didn't get away." (13 H 27)
This of course was in spite of the fact that there were anywhere from 60 to 75 armed police in the basement and Oswald's right arm was handcuffed to Leavelle and Graves had his left arm.
Oswald wasn't going anywhere.
When asked by Counsel Bert Griffin if he felt that his primary reason for being behind Oswald was to prevent him from getting away rather than to prevent anyone from getting at him, Montgomery replied, "keep him from getting away". (Ibid.)
Montgomery was there to prevent Oswald from breaking loose from Graves and jumping behind Leavelle, which he might have done had he seen Ruby coming at him with a gun.
Montgomery was NOT there to protect the prisoner.
With this configuration, Fritz guaranteed that when Ruby ambushed Oswald, Oswald was boxed in and would have no means to escape.
The police couldn't kill Oswald themselves. This case was too high profile for Oswald to end up hanging in his cell.
Oswald had to be killed by someone on the outside. Someone who shared the police department's level of corruption and lack of morals.
That task fell on the shoulders of a cop lover and strip club owner named Jack Ruby.
Coming in Part II: Corruption: The Foundation for Murder