[…] book would not have been published had the assassination not taken place. For example, the assassination is not the main concern of Seth Kantor’s biography of Jack Ruby but Kantor would hardly have written the book had the assassination not taken place. The figure I’ve arrived at is about 350 books (including US government […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] visit the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. He re-entered the United States on 3rd October and headed for Dallas. On November 24th he was shot dead by Jack Ruby. Clay Shaw, Jim Garrison (and others) In mid-February 1967, nearly three and a half years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, news reports emanating […]
[…] so little about Texas politics and organised crime in the period. For example, it is still not possible to say for certain how significant a figure Jack Ruby was in organised crime. There is little information on the relationship between the mob, law enforcement and local politicians in Texas. There are just accounts which […]
[…] provided for a backstop killer in near certainty, hotel security guard Thane Cesar () to either shoot Kennedy or terminate Sirhan himself a la Jack Ruby. If the killing of Kennedy was, in many ways, a stroke of luck for RFK’s opponents, their very range would ensure the cover-up went swiftly and […]
[…] On TV it was sporadically entertaining, depending on the quality of the subject: Jim Tucker of Spotlight and his decades of pursuing Bilderberg, Randy Weaver of the Ruby Ridge shooting incident, and David Icke peddling his lizard theory in Canada – these programmes were quite amusing. One of the best sections on TV was […]
[…] investigation. The Fourth Decade had a great mix of scholarship and good writing – exemplified by ‘You Don’t Know Me But You Will: the World of Jack Ruby’ (TTD November 1987), and ‘These Are A Few of my Favorite Forgeries’ (TTD March 1986) by the editor/publisher Jerry D. Rose. It also featured a number […]
[…] lawbreaking detailed in this book,(12) the political volte face from cold war to detente, the accumulation of enemies at every turn, Hersh’s overall conclusion that ‘Oswald and Ruby acted alone’ (p.451) is explicable only in terms of the near elemental fear that the subject evokes in the American journalistic psyche. If anything, the mountain […]
[…] Deep Politics is also a collection of dense, fascinating bits and pieces from the Scott canon; Scott on JFK and Vietnam (politely devastating Noam Chomsky); Scott on Ruby, narcotics, Army Intelligence, the Great Southwest Corporation and so forth. If it’s not the massive, synthesising masterpiece I was hoping for it’s still a wonderful piece […]
