General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Whose idea was it to put Allen Dulles on the Warren Commission? Robert Kennedy's. [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Oswald called his uncle to come bail him out after he got arrested by the NOPD. His uncle was a smalltime bookie with some very peripheral connections to the mob in New Orleans. Ruby had relationships and friendships with people he'd known since childhood some of whom were involved in organised crime. And so, what? There's nothing especially sinister there and certainly nothing that indicates any kind of conspiracy on the part of either of them. It's just more unsubstantiated "oh hey look at these possible connections!" There are dots, but you can't make them line up into anything coherent because, guess what, there's not any evidence of anything there. And there aren't any records of any telephone conversations between Ruby and any of these "organised crime figures" between 18 November and 24 November. There are no records of any telephone conversations between Oswald and any "organised crime figures" between 18 and 21 November. Remember that Kennedy's motorcade route wasn't finalised until 18 November, and it was only finalised after Kennedy aide David Powers selected the Dallas Trade Mart as the location for the luncheon event on Kennedy's visit.