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Monday, May 21, 2007
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Anonymous said...
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I have always been able to live with the story that Oswald acted alone.There has only been one fly in the ointment for me and that is Jack Ruby.The idea that a petty underworld figure would be so upset by the murder of 'his' president,that he would be willing to commit a killing,in plain view is hard to swallow.I have to think that if he had wanted to off Lee Harvey for any reason of Kennedy loyality,he would have done it in a shadier manner and hoped to have gotten away with it.No, this was something else.It seems to me that Ruby was under some sort of strain to get the job done in a hurry and the risk didn't matter....Anyway, whatever the reason was, the whole Jack Ruby involvement has always been a total mystery to me and will forever seem like a square peg in a round hole.
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5/21/07, 3:37 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I didn't have much of an opinion on this either, but I recently read a book called "I heard you paint houses", an autobiography of Frank Sheeran, Jimmy Hoffa's right arm (and also one of his murderers if his confessions are to be believed). He was essentially a hit man with something like 20 hits + to his credit.
There is some incidental info on the Kennedy murder, in particular that Sheeran had transported some of the weapons used or planned to be used in Dallas. And there is stuff on Ruby too, since he was connected to some of Sheeran bosses.
The main thing is that it's tough to see what interest Sheeran would have had making the stuff up, considering what he confesses to in the rest of the book. An interesting read on Hoffa and the Teamsters Union, if nothing else... -
5/21/07, 8:35 PM
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LargeBill said...
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JMCD,
Looking at it from today's mindset Ruby's actions might seem hard to understand, but 45 years ago people took an attack on their president pretty seriously. Besides that, he knew he had cancer so he had nothing to lose and may have actually wanted to be put out of his misery (suicide by cop) after shooting Oswald. -
5/22/07, 11:26 AM
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Anonymous said...
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I remember where I was the day Kennedy got shot and I recall plenty of people loved him and plenty hated him.Just always thought it didn't seem the normal reaction of a thug to be so heartfelt that he would commit murder in retaliation for an assasination at that time untried and unproven and evidently still questionable by many unto this day.I always thought Oswald was shot to shut him up.I suppose the fact that Ruby was dying of cancer could have had something to do with it but I continue to feel the oddness of the whole situation.
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5/22/07, 1:05 PM
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