Post by Gil Jesus on Mar 31, 2023 8:14:20 GMT -5
Part V: Putting The Pieces Together
Of course, this whole scenario depends on Curington's account being true.
If it is true, the conspiracy to kill Oswald began in Washington. Johnson's aides made sure that Oswald was exposed. They then coordinated with H.L. Hunt, who sent Curington on Saturday evening to get the "details" on security.
Curington claims that he arrived at the Dallas Police Station late afternoon/early evening and reported back to Hunt around midnight.
That's a lot of time to be checking on security. I believe that there's more to the story that Curington is NOT saying.
I believe that Curington brought a message from Hunt for Fritz to agree not to move Oswald until told to do so. On Sunday morning when he arrived at work, Wiggins was ordered to give the "all set" signal to Fritz when he saw Ruby in the basement.
Although the transfer was scheduled for 10 am, Oswald would not be moved until Ruby was in position.
I believe Wiggins was, "in and out of the basement looking it over" that morning for Jack Ruby.
When Fritz came out of the jail office, he looked in the direction of Ruby and then signaled for his detectives to bring Oswald out.
Rich men like Hunt had control over politicians, judges, DAs, sheriffs, police officers and lawyers through campaign contributions, job placement and bank loans.
Hunt owned Dallas' Mercantile Bank.
And if you don't believe that he had that kind of power, imagine the amount of power it takes to summon the reputed head of Organized Crime in your city to your house in the middle of the night and to have him respond like a schoolboy being summoned to the Principal's Office.
That, my friends, is POWER.
The CIA Connection To The Dallas Police
James Wilcott, who was a paymaster at the CIA for the "Oswald Project", told the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978 that the CIA was in , "as thick as thieves" with the Dallas Police.
Another of those CIA connections in Dallas was H.L. Hunt. Hunt wasn't only connected to the CIA through his oil business. According to Paul Rothermel, Hunt's Chief Of Security, Hunt also "had taken over the Dallas FBI office" and that, "they were in his pocket."
If that's true and the Dallas FBI was doing Hunt's bidding, it opens up a whole new world of questions regarding the relationship between H.L. Hunt, the Dallas FBI and Oswald.
Ruby's Motive: Money
I believe Hunt gave Civello cash out of his home safe to have Oswald killed. Civello then forwarded the plan and $ 3,000 of the money to Ruby and gave the "contract" to him.
Doesn't sound like a lot of money, but in 1963, $3,000 was the equivalent of almost $30,000 in today's dollars.
Ruby's friends, Jack Kelly and Paul Jones, told the FBI that Ruby would do anything for money.
The facts are that Ruby was in dire financial straits.
According to the Warren Report, the man who conducted his banking from his "pockets and the trunk of his car," ran up an estimated $50,000 debt in legal fees fighting the strippers' union and at the time of his death in Dallas, owed the Federal Government about $44,000 in back taxes.
This is beside the $15,000 he owed one of his brothers. He was indebted to the rest of his family as well.
Ruby pal Harry Hall told the FBI that, "Ruby was the type who was interested in any way to make money and seemed to have good contacts with the police. He said he could not conceive of Ruby doing anything out of patriotism." (23 H 383)
When Ruby was arrested, he had $2,000 on his person and another $1,000 in the trunk of his car.
The amount of Ruby's debt would have been "chicken feed" for a man like Hunt. He could have guaranteed to pay off those debts with no problem.
And using his influence with the DA, the cops and the judges in Dallas County, he had the power to get Ruby "off the hook" for the murder.
That guarantee could have been made as well as part of the contract.
In fact, public opinion was on the side of Ruby. Telegrams came from all over the world into the Dallas County Jail congratulating Ruby for killing the President's assassin.
The theory that Ruby was paid by someone on the political right to eliminate Oswald is not so far fetched as one would expect.
CIA asset Gerry Patrick Hemming claimed that he was approached in person "many times" by right-wingers to kill JFK for money.
Both Joe and Sam Campisi were underbosses of Joe Civello. They visited Ruby while he was in jail and their visits with him were private.
I believe the purpose of these visits were to remind Ruby to keep his mouth shut about his role and those of Civello and of the Hunts in the conspiracy to kill Oswald.
If this theory is correct, Ruby would have realized that his life depended on keeping silent.
"My Life Is In Danger Here"
Whatever Jack Ruby knew, he wanted to say. He wanted to tell his story, but he couldn't tell it in Dallas.
He said, "Gentlemen, my life is in danger here". He went on to say. "I may not live tomorrow to give any further testimony." And that, " I want to get out to the public....why my act was committed but it can't be said here." (5 H 196)
Why not? What was it about telling his story in Dallas that had Jack Ruby fearing for hs life ? Was it that he could wind up dead just from a phone call to the police dept. from H.L. Hunt, or Joe Civello?
During a break in his trial, Jack Ruby is interviewed in the hallway of the courthouse by Harry Kendall. Ruby tells Kendall that there were people in very high places responsible for putting him in his situation and who will "never let the truth come above board to the world."
Jack Leon Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism on January 3, 1967 at Parkland Hospital, the same facility where Oswald and Kennedy died. He was buried beside his parents in the Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge, Illinois.
H.L. Hunt: The Man Behind The Conspiracy To Kill Oswald?
The final question remains then, could H.L. Hunt have been that ruthless to have Oswald killed in cold blood?
John Curington said he was.
Russell Ross Farrell thought so as well. He was a retired Commander of the Navy Reserve in California who became acquainted with persons of the "far right persuasion" after his retirement. He told the FBI that Hunt was, "so violently anti-administration as to be capable of anything". He also told the FBI that he believed that Hunt possibly, "had a hand in the killing of Kennedy and the murder of Oswald." (Oswald 201 file, Volume 8, section 15, pg. 311)
The murder of USDA agent Henry Marshall in 1961 proved that a well-connected person could get away with murder in the state of Texas.
Marshall's murderer, an associate of Lyndon Johnson, got away with a five-year suspended sentence and served NO jail time thanks to the intervention of Johnson,
Sentences are issued by judges. Some of those judges are elected and some of them are appointed by politicians. Either way, campaign contributions can have an effect on the "justice system".
In this case, the perpetrators got away with two murders, Kennedy's and Oswald's, because they had friends in the White House and FBI whose jobs they saved, and who showed their appreciation by not allowing them to be brought to justice.
After the assassination, H.L.Hunt and General Walker fled to Hunt's estate in Mexico and although he was under the watchful eye of the FBI, Hunt was never interviewed by the Bureau and was never called to testify for the Warren Commission.
Mr. Hunt died in 1974, before the Church Committee and the House Select Committee on Assassinations were formed.
Of course, this whole scenario depends on Curington's account being true.
If it is true, the conspiracy to kill Oswald began in Washington. Johnson's aides made sure that Oswald was exposed. They then coordinated with H.L. Hunt, who sent Curington on Saturday evening to get the "details" on security.
Curington claims that he arrived at the Dallas Police Station late afternoon/early evening and reported back to Hunt around midnight.
That's a lot of time to be checking on security. I believe that there's more to the story that Curington is NOT saying.
I believe that Curington brought a message from Hunt for Fritz to agree not to move Oswald until told to do so. On Sunday morning when he arrived at work, Wiggins was ordered to give the "all set" signal to Fritz when he saw Ruby in the basement.
Although the transfer was scheduled for 10 am, Oswald would not be moved until Ruby was in position.
I believe Wiggins was, "in and out of the basement looking it over" that morning for Jack Ruby.
When Fritz came out of the jail office, he looked in the direction of Ruby and then signaled for his detectives to bring Oswald out.
Rich men like Hunt had control over politicians, judges, DAs, sheriffs, police officers and lawyers through campaign contributions, job placement and bank loans.
Hunt owned Dallas' Mercantile Bank.
And if you don't believe that he had that kind of power, imagine the amount of power it takes to summon the reputed head of Organized Crime in your city to your house in the middle of the night and to have him respond like a schoolboy being summoned to the Principal's Office.
That, my friends, is POWER.
The CIA Connection To The Dallas Police
James Wilcott, who was a paymaster at the CIA for the "Oswald Project", told the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978 that the CIA was in , "as thick as thieves" with the Dallas Police.
Another of those CIA connections in Dallas was H.L. Hunt. Hunt wasn't only connected to the CIA through his oil business. According to Paul Rothermel, Hunt's Chief Of Security, Hunt also "had taken over the Dallas FBI office" and that, "they were in his pocket."
If that's true and the Dallas FBI was doing Hunt's bidding, it opens up a whole new world of questions regarding the relationship between H.L. Hunt, the Dallas FBI and Oswald.
Ruby's Motive: Money
I believe Hunt gave Civello cash out of his home safe to have Oswald killed. Civello then forwarded the plan and $ 3,000 of the money to Ruby and gave the "contract" to him.
Doesn't sound like a lot of money, but in 1963, $3,000 was the equivalent of almost $30,000 in today's dollars.
Ruby's friends, Jack Kelly and Paul Jones, told the FBI that Ruby would do anything for money.
The facts are that Ruby was in dire financial straits.
According to the Warren Report, the man who conducted his banking from his "pockets and the trunk of his car," ran up an estimated $50,000 debt in legal fees fighting the strippers' union and at the time of his death in Dallas, owed the Federal Government about $44,000 in back taxes.
This is beside the $15,000 he owed one of his brothers. He was indebted to the rest of his family as well.
Ruby pal Harry Hall told the FBI that, "Ruby was the type who was interested in any way to make money and seemed to have good contacts with the police. He said he could not conceive of Ruby doing anything out of patriotism." (23 H 383)
When Ruby was arrested, he had $2,000 on his person and another $1,000 in the trunk of his car.
The amount of Ruby's debt would have been "chicken feed" for a man like Hunt. He could have guaranteed to pay off those debts with no problem.
And using his influence with the DA, the cops and the judges in Dallas County, he had the power to get Ruby "off the hook" for the murder.
That guarantee could have been made as well as part of the contract.
In fact, public opinion was on the side of Ruby. Telegrams came from all over the world into the Dallas County Jail congratulating Ruby for killing the President's assassin.
The theory that Ruby was paid by someone on the political right to eliminate Oswald is not so far fetched as one would expect.
CIA asset Gerry Patrick Hemming claimed that he was approached in person "many times" by right-wingers to kill JFK for money.
Both Joe and Sam Campisi were underbosses of Joe Civello. They visited Ruby while he was in jail and their visits with him were private.
I believe the purpose of these visits were to remind Ruby to keep his mouth shut about his role and those of Civello and of the Hunts in the conspiracy to kill Oswald.
If this theory is correct, Ruby would have realized that his life depended on keeping silent.
"My Life Is In Danger Here"
Whatever Jack Ruby knew, he wanted to say. He wanted to tell his story, but he couldn't tell it in Dallas.
He said, "Gentlemen, my life is in danger here". He went on to say. "I may not live tomorrow to give any further testimony." And that, " I want to get out to the public....why my act was committed but it can't be said here." (5 H 196)
Why not? What was it about telling his story in Dallas that had Jack Ruby fearing for hs life ? Was it that he could wind up dead just from a phone call to the police dept. from H.L. Hunt, or Joe Civello?
During a break in his trial, Jack Ruby is interviewed in the hallway of the courthouse by Harry Kendall. Ruby tells Kendall that there were people in very high places responsible for putting him in his situation and who will "never let the truth come above board to the world."
Jack Leon Ruby died of a pulmonary embolism on January 3, 1967 at Parkland Hospital, the same facility where Oswald and Kennedy died. He was buried beside his parents in the Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge, Illinois.
H.L. Hunt: The Man Behind The Conspiracy To Kill Oswald?
The final question remains then, could H.L. Hunt have been that ruthless to have Oswald killed in cold blood?
John Curington said he was.
Russell Ross Farrell thought so as well. He was a retired Commander of the Navy Reserve in California who became acquainted with persons of the "far right persuasion" after his retirement. He told the FBI that Hunt was, "so violently anti-administration as to be capable of anything". He also told the FBI that he believed that Hunt possibly, "had a hand in the killing of Kennedy and the murder of Oswald." (Oswald 201 file, Volume 8, section 15, pg. 311)
The murder of USDA agent Henry Marshall in 1961 proved that a well-connected person could get away with murder in the state of Texas.
Marshall's murderer, an associate of Lyndon Johnson, got away with a five-year suspended sentence and served NO jail time thanks to the intervention of Johnson,
Sentences are issued by judges. Some of those judges are elected and some of them are appointed by politicians. Either way, campaign contributions can have an effect on the "justice system".
In this case, the perpetrators got away with two murders, Kennedy's and Oswald's, because they had friends in the White House and FBI whose jobs they saved, and who showed their appreciation by not allowing them to be brought to justice.
After the assassination, H.L.Hunt and General Walker fled to Hunt's estate in Mexico and although he was under the watchful eye of the FBI, Hunt was never interviewed by the Bureau and was never called to testify for the Warren Commission.
Mr. Hunt died in 1974, before the Church Committee and the House Select Committee on Assassinations were formed.