[…] of southern racist and “pro-fascist” organizations.’ At last – the smoking gun! The names of the men behind the hit! H. L. Hunt hated JFK (and Jack Ruby visited his brother’s offices on 21 November 1963); Clint Murchison Sr. hated JFK and was a financier of the Minutemen and the Klan; and Sid Richardson […]
[…] up his apologia for Hoover and the Feds. Nonetheless, DeLoach admits some stains and blemishes on J. Edgar and doesn’t gloss over them. Chapters on JFK, Jack Ruby, Martin Luther King, Cointelpro, and ‘The Gay Director?’ (special criticism reserved here for Tony Summers). Worth reading for its insights into Bureau procedure and Bureau-think. DFW […]
[…] a Mexican Government agency. Richard Cain at the time was also part of that Dave Yaras-Lennie Patrick-Sam Giancana element of the Chicago mob with demonstrable links to Ruby in 1963, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations speculated that Cain may have been part of the 1960-61 CIA-Mafia plots against Castro. Unmistakably Staff D, […]
[…] assassination. DiEugenio has done his homework and argues convincingly enough that Oswald and Shaw were part of a network which drew together Guy Banister, David Ferrie, Jack Ruby, anti-Castro forces (mainly Cuban emigres and the Mafia) and the CIA. The mystery of Oswald Of course the existence of such a network does not prove […]
Publications The Kennedys: An American Drama Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Pan Books, London 1985) JFK:The Presidency of John F. Kennedy Herbert S. Parmet (Penguin Books, London 1984) Kennedy assassination buffs – and I confess to being one in a very small way – can’t resist books about the Kennedys even when they suspect there […]
[…] in excess of 1.4 million words, which easily dwarfs the Warren Report itself. Bugliosi is going to rescue the ‘lone mad nut’ thesis, the Magic Bullet, Jack Ruby as ‘accidental slayer’ and all the rest of the Warren Commission gospel from, to borrow a phrase of H. L. Mencken’s, the ‘Sheol of shattered illusions.’ […]
[…] Memphis mafia and the cops. But the truth is what the truth is. It gets harder to swallow. Pepper has found apparent links to Dallas and Jack Ruby! After the assassination a young and FBI agent went to inspect a car, a white Mustang, which they thought might have been involved in the assassination. […]
[…] his plans to have NASA put men on the moon.’ (Square brackets and words within them in the original.) After the assassination of JFK, Kilgallen visited Jack Ruby and, according to the late Penn Jones, shortly before her death in 1965 from an apparent overdose of barbiturates and alcohol, she claimed that she was […]
[…] is there any evidence about the former? Seth Kantor died in August (Obituary in’ Rocky Mountain News, August 19, 1993). A journalist in Dallas, Kantor knew Jack Ruby and bumped into him at the Parkland Hospital in the melee surrounding the arrival of the dead JFK. Kantor was thus one of the people whose […]
[…] Charles Harrelson), and that Oswald, though known to both of them in the planning, was set-up as a patsy. Charles Rogers also knew David Ferrie and Jack Ruby. The ‘crime of the century’ is thus solved by the end of the book but none of it can be believed. No evidence is produced to […]
