Salon: "the Warren Commission... was stacked with RFK’s political enemies"

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12. Warren commission:''Jack Ruby had no criminal connections"

However the House found:
The Committee studiously avoided the following important propositions:


From as early as 1946–47, Ruby was involved in major narcotics dealings; and yet he was protected from arrest, most probably because he was also a US government informant.
Ruby was, as reported, involved in payoffs to the Dallas police, for whom he was unquestionably a narcotics informant.


Ruby was on good, but probably illicit, terms with judges and other high members of the Dallas political establishment.


According to his lawyer, Ruby was an informant for the Kefauver Committee; and in exchange for this service, the Kefauver Committee agreed to ignore contemporary organized crime and police corruption in Dallas, specifically with respect to the 1946 takeover by organized crime of the national racing wire service.


The wire–service operation was a key organizing force for criminal activity in that era, including narcotics. Profits from the resulting system of protected crime (in which Ruby was somehow implicated) were invested in legitimate businesses (such as international hotels and defense industries like General Dynamics) which formed part of the expansive postwar US military–industrial establishment.


To sum up, the Warren Commission … suppressed Ruby’s links to organized crime and the political establishment.