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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]zappaman
(20,606 posts)Ruby was imprisoned on November 24, 1963.
He died on January 3, 1967.
Plenty of time to talk, eh?
And let's see what Ruby actually said...
" 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."
-from the Warren Commission volumes, 5H208-211
Need more?
Through "certain falsehoods that have been said about me," Ruby once lamented, "I am as good as guilty as the accused assassin of President Kennedy." He asked, "How can you remedy that, Mr. Warren? Do any of you men have any ways of remedying that?
Mr. Ruby.
Of why that Sunday morning--that thought never entered my mind prior to that Sunday morning when I took it upon myself to try to be a martyr or some screwball, you might say.
But I felt very emotional and very carried away for Mrs. Kennedy, that with all the strife she had gone through--I had been following it pretty well--that someone owed it to our beloved President that she shouldn't be expected to come back to face trial of this heinous crime.
And I have never had the chance to tell that, to back it up, to prove it.
More?
Mr. Ruby.
But by delaying minutes, you lose the chance. And all I want to do is tell the truth, and that is all.
There was no conspiracy. But by you telling them what you are going to do and how you are going to do it is too late as of this moment.
Ok, if you insist, here is more...his polygraph.
Q. Did you shoot Oswald in order to silence him?
A. No.
Q. Did you first decide to shoot Oswald on Sunday Morning?
A. Yes
Q. Did any foreign influence cause you to shoot Oswald?
A. No.
Q. Did you shoot Oswald because of any influence of the underworld?
A. No.
Q. Did you shoot Oswald because of a labor union influence?
A. No.
Q. Did any long-distance telephone calls which you made before the assassination of the President have anything to do with the assassination?
A. No.
Q. Did any of your long-distance telephone calls concern the shooting of Oswald?
A. No.
Q. Did you shoot Oswald in order to save Mrs. Kennedy the ordeal of a trial?
A. Yes
So although Ruby was always consistent in denying he was part of a conspiracy, you continue to maintain there was a "fascist" plot.
Laughable.
Oops....Almost left out what he said on his deathbed...
"But before he died, Ruby made a recording in hospital denying that his killing of Oswald was part of a conspiracy. He believed the recording would be "an important contribution to history". "
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1774&dat=19670101&id=Y9geAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0WUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7280,872855
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/No+conspiracy,+says+dying+Ruby%3B+RETRO+REPORT.-a0313832952