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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]stopbush
(24,395 posts)You wrote:
The biggest tell in the WC transcripts is Jack Ruby pleading with Warren and Ford to be taken back to Washington so he could tell them the whole story. It's obvious that the stuttering Warren almost messed his pants at that one, and told Ruby that would be impossible. Ruby told them if they left him in the Dallas jail he would die and the truth never known. Warren said, basically, Gee sorry 'bout that, Jack.
The facts:
JFK killed Nov 22, 1963
Ruby kills Oswald Nov. 24, 1963
WCR delivered to LBJ, Sept 24, 1964
Ruby dies TWO YEARS & 4 MONTHS later, on Jan 3, 1967, and over THREE YEARS after Ruby shot Oswald.
Are you saying that Ruby didn't have time to "come clean" about what he knew about the killing? He had over three years to tell anybody who would listen, and LOTS of people were ready to listen.
As far as the WC not wanting to speak with Ruby:
"During the six months following the Kennedy assassination, Ruby repeatedly asked, orally and in writing, to speak to the members of the Warren Commission. The commission initially showed no interest. Only after Ruby's sister Eileen wrote letters to the commission (and her letters became public) did the Warren Commission agree to talk to Ruby. In June 1964, Chief Justice Earl Warren, then-Representative Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, and other commission members went to Dallas to see Ruby. Ruby asked Warren several times to take him to Washington D.C., saying "my life is in danger here" and that he wanted an opportunity to make additional statements. He added: "I want to tell the truth, and I can't tell it here." Warren told Ruby that he would be unable to comply, because many legal barriers would need to be broken and public interest in the situation would be too heavy. Warren also told Ruby that the commission would have no way of protecting him, since it had no police powers. Ruby said he wanted to convince President Lyndon Johnson that he was not part of any conspiracy to kill Kennedy." - Source: Wikipedia
"According to an unnamed Associated Press source, Ruby made a final statement from his hospital bed on December 19 (1966) that he alone had been responsible for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. "There is nothing to hide
There was no one else," Ruby said." - Source: Wikipedia