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In reply to the discussion: 10 Facts about Lee Oswald that make 70% of Americans Wonder... [View all]zappaman
(20,606 posts)I'm sure you are already aware of them, but here they are again...
Mr. RANKIN. It isn't entirely clear how you feel
that your family and you yourself are threatened by
your telling what you have to the Commission.
How do you come to the conclusion that they might be
killed? Will you tell us a little bit more about that,
if you can?
Mr. RUBY. Well, assuming that, as I stated before,
some persons are accusing me falsely of being part of
the plot--naturally, in all the time from over 6 months
ago, my family has been so interested in helping me.
Mr. RANKIN. By that, you mean a party to the plot
of Oswald?
Mr. RUBY. That I was party to a plot to silence
Oswald.
All right now, when your family believes you and knows
your mannerisms and your thoughts, and knows your
sincerity, they have lived with you all your life and
know your emotional feelings and your patriotism--on the
surface, they see me only as the guilty assailant of
Oswald, and by helping me like they have, going all
out.
My brother who has a successful business, I know he is
going to be killed. And I haven't seen him in years.
And suddenly he feels that he wants to help me, because
he believes that I couldn't be any further involved
than the actual ----
When I told him I did it because of Mrs. Kennedy, that
is all he had to hear, because I would never involve my
family or involve him in a conspiracy.
Everyone haven't let me down. Because they read the
newspapers away from Dallas that stated certain facts
about me, but they are untrue, because they wouldn't
come out and put those things in the newspapers that
they should be putting in; and people outside of Dallas
read the Dallas newspapers and are all in sympathy with
me, as far as the country itself.
That they felt, well, Jack did it. They probably felt
they would do the same thing.
That sympathy isn't going to help me, because the
people that have the power here, they have a different
verdict. They already have me as the accused assassin
of our beloved President.
Now if I sound screwy telling you this, then I must be
screwy.
Yes, he sounds screwy...
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