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Jack Ruby Knew Lee Harvey Oswald

That’s a huge point and one that they make a point of not telling you. The fact that Ruby and Oswald knew each other changes the whole context of everything!

And it’s been established that they did know each other. The Warren Commission and the House Select Committee on Assassination both lied to us about that! And I can prove it.

Because how could they have not known, with any type of preliminary mediocre investigation, that these two guys obviously knew each other? Instead, all we get is some total B.S. story about Jack Ruby wanting to save Jackie Kennedy from the mental anguish of going through a horrible trial. Yeah right. I mean you have to just keep asking yourself: How stupid do they think we are? It gets to the point where it’s all so obvious that it’s actually insulting to your intelligence!

Jack Ruby, to me, is a key point because he didn’t just know a few people, he knew everybody. He knew Lee Harvey Oswald, he knew the Dallas cops who let him into the police station when he killed Oswald, he knew the Mafia people, he knew the anti-Castro Cubans who were around Dallas—Jack Ruby knew ’em all!

Judyth Vary Baker is an author and someone I can personally vouch for; I’ve sat right next to her and gone back and forth over these issues, and I know that she’s a person of high integrity. Judyth was a very close friend of Oswald in New Orleans just prior to the assassination. They were having a serious romantic affair. Her book, Me & Lee, tells the whole story about Oswald being set up to take the fall. It’s big stuff, and she has extensive documentation to back up all of her claims.

I’ll always remember the reaction of “Mancow” Muller when Judyth Baker and I were sitting there in the studio for his radio show and she told Mancow that Ruby absolutely knew Oswald. His reaction was of complete shock, as that changed everything. As Judyth shows in her book, Ruby had known Oswald since he was a kid.³⁰⁶ Judyth’s book pretty much fills in all the blanks of New Orleans and what was going on there:

Jack Ruby visited David Ferrie’s apartment one day when Judyth and Lee [Oswald] were there. Ferrie introduced him to Judyth as Sparky Rubenstein. Ruby recognized Lee, and said that he used to see him at parties when he was a boy.³⁰⁷

And there’s a multitude of other eyewitnesses who saw the two of them together. For example, at least four of the dancers who worked in Jack Ruby’s nightclub—in apparent risk of their own personal safety—came forward after the assassination and stated that they clearly remembered Oswald not only being in Jack Ruby’s nightclub, but sitting there and talking to him. They were even introduced to Oswald by Jack Ruby! So how could they not remember? Those four Ruby employees were Melba Christine Marcades (also known as Rose Cheramie), Marilyn “Delilah” Walle, Beverly Oliver, and Janet “Jada” Conforto.³⁰⁸

That makes perfect sense when you find out how Ruby would go down to the southern part of crime boss Carlos Marcello’s territory to get dancers. It all adds up.

Beverly Oliver was one of Ruby’s dancers. You can watch a video clip of her online. She simply tells her story about what she recollects very clearly. She’s sincere and intelligent. Go watch it: youtube.com/watch?v=Lgd_QY1c8q8.

Bill Chesher was a car mechanic who had worked on Jack Ruby’s car. Chesher and another mechanic, Robert Roy, said that they had both even seen Oswald in Jack Ruby’s car.³⁰⁹

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison had “solid evidence” Ruby, Oswald, and David Ferrie not only all knew each other, but—get this—that they were all working with the CIA in its anti-Castro operations:

I have solid evidence indicating that Ruby, Ferrie, Oswald and others involved in this case were all paid by the CIA to perform certain functions: Ruby to smuggle arms for Cuban exile groups, Ferrie to train them and to fly counterrevolutionary secret missions to Cuba, and Oswald to establish himself so convincingly as a Marxist that he would win the trust of American left-wing groups and also have freedom to travel as a spy in Communist countries, particularly Cuba.³¹⁰

That was what was actually going on, and that was what the government had to cover up! Garrison continued and he didn’t mince his words either:

We have evidence linking Ruby not only to anti-Castro exile activities but, as with almost everyone else involved in this case, to the CIA itself. Never forget that the CIA maintains a great variety of curious alliances it feels serve its purposes. It may be hard to imagine Ruby in a trench coat, but he seems to have been as good an employee of the CIA as he was a pimp for the Dallas cops.³¹¹

They were all knee-deep in covert activities and Garrison figured out that it was precisely that relationship that made the U.S. government stonewall his investigation every step of the way:

. . . Ruby was up to his neck with the plotters. Our investigators have broken a code Oswald used and found Ruby’s private unlisted telephone number, as of 1963, written in Oswald’s notebook. The same coded number was found in the address book of another prominent figure in this case.³¹²

As veteran JFK historian James DiEugenio points out, it was blatantly clear that Oswald and Ruby knew each other. The Warren Commission can refuse to talk about that huge elephant standing right there in the room if they choose to, but that doesn’t make the damn thing disappear! Here’s how DiEugenio described that “elephant” when commenting on a so-called “documentary” that failed to include some very basic facts which he detailed in his review of Gary Mack’s film, who was a custodian of the JFK assassination museum now located on the sixth floor of the Book Depository building.

All one needs to know about the latest Gary Mack fiasco is this: Almost none of the above is included in the hour. Nothing about the involvement of Ruby and Oswald in the Cuban conflict through the CIA and the Mafia; virtually none of the plentiful and multi-leveled connections of Ruby to the DPD; and none of the witnesses who indicate Oswald and Ruby knew each other.

This, of course, is ridiculous. For if a program is trying to explore whether or not Ruby shot Oswald to conceal a plot to kill Kennedy, then it is fundamentally dishonest not to tell the viewer about the above. Because clearly those three areas of evidence would suggest the following:

Ruby and Oswald shared connections to the CIA and the Mafia

Ruby and Oswald knew each other through their experience in the Cuban crisis as extended into the USA

Ruby used his police contacts to enter the basement of City Hall and kill Oswald.”³¹³

Why would the Warren Commission hide the fact that they all knew each other if they were truly doing an authentic investigation and wanted to know the truth? Let me answer that for you—they wouldn’t hide it and they didn’t want you to know the truth! It wasn’t about learning the truth; it was about taking the truth and trying to bury it where no one would ever find it.

That was apparently the need for the whole cover-up—they were all involved together: Oswald, Ruby, Ferrie, Banister, Dr. Ochsner, Dr. Sherman—all tied inextricably together in the whole sordid story.³¹⁴

Read Judyth Baker’s book and Edward T. Haslam’s book, Dr. Mary’s Monkey, because that’s another important one, too. They’re a couple of real eye-openers.

Another thing that has been pointed out to me which I thought was very interesting—and I’ve never heard this brought out publicly before—was that when Ruby shot Oswald, did you notice that all of the detectives were dressed in dark black or blue suits; except for the guy actually escorting Oswald? He’s dressed totally in white, with a big white cowboy hat. Well, that—according to a tip someone gave me—was to set up the shooter. Then, even with the big crowd of people, the shooter knows Oswald’s going to be just to the right of the white cowboy hat. And you know who told me that? Judyth Baker. She said she noticed that when they brought Lee down . . . so the shooter can get on target. Obviously, there were a lot of strange things taking place with the whole Jack Ruby thing.

But the evidence is unmistakably clear on a huge point here. Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald definitely knew each other. And like I said, that’s not just important; that’s a fact that changes everything.

Listen to what the only District Attorney’s office to ever investigate the JFK assassination concluded about the importance of the fact that Ruby knew Oswald:

First of all, let me dispose of this concept of the ‘temporarily deranged man.’ This is a catchall term, employed whenever the real motive of a crime can’t be nailed down. In the overwhelming majority of instances, the actions of human beings are the direct consequences of discernible motives.

This is the fatal flaw of the Warren Report—its conclusion that the assassination of President Kennedy was the act of a temporarily deranged man, that the murder of Officer Tippit was equally meaningless and, finally, that Jack Ruby’s murder of Oswald was another act of a temporarily deranged individual. It is, of course, wildly improbable that all three acts were coincidentally the aberrant acts of temporarily deranged men—although it’s most convenient to view them as such, because that judgment obviates the necessity of relentlessly investigating the possibility of a conspiracy.³¹⁵

Far from being an impulsive act, Jim Garrison described Ruby’s murder of Lee Harvey Oswald like this:

In Jack Ruby’s case, his murder of Lee Oswald was the sanest act he ever committed; if Oswald had lived another day or so, he very probably would have named names, and Jack Ruby would have been convicted as a conspirator in the assassination plot. As it was, Ruby made the best of a bad situation by rubbing out Oswald in the Dallas city jail, since this act could be construed as an argument that he was ‘temporarily deranged.’³¹⁶

I agree with Jim Garrison.

³⁰⁶ Judyth Vary Baker, Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald, (TrineDay: 2011).

³⁰⁷ Edward T. Haslam, Dr. Mary’s Monkey: How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassination and emerging global epidemics (TrineDay: 2007), 307, parenthetical comment in original; citing Judyth Baker, Me & Lee.

³⁰⁸ Belzer & Wayne, Hit List, xiv, 49, 141, 310; “Did Ruby & Oswald Know Each Other?- Beverly Oliver,” retrieved 29 April 2013: youtube.com/watch?v=Lgd_QY1c8q8

³⁰⁹ James DiEugenio, “JFK: The Ruby Connection, Gary Mack’s Follies-Part One,” Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination, accessed 12 Nov. 21012: ctka.net/2009/ruby_mack. html

³¹⁰ JFK Lancer, “Jim Garrison’s Playboy Interview, Part Three,” retrieved 3 May 2013:. jfklancer.com/Garrison4.html

³¹¹ Ibid.

³¹² Ibid.

³¹³ DiEugenio, “JFK: The Ruby Connection, Gary Mack’s Follies-Part One.”

³¹⁴ Belzer & Wayne, Hit List, 294.

³¹⁵ JFK Lancer, “Jim Garrison’s Playboy Interview, Part Three.”

³¹⁶ Ibid.