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We are. fixing to go in and shake it down.” On an alternate channel, tively match the bullets i in ‘the dead offi- — cer’s body with Oswaid’s revolver, they’ did determine that three bullets were of - ‘one manufacture, the fourth of another, while. the four recovered shell casings " were evenly divided betweefi the two manufacturers, The Commission wrig- gled: out ‘of. this’ dilemma by wildly speculating that five shots were fired, one’ completely. missing (Report, p. 172); - _ Moreover, the police tadio logs de- scribe a ‘killer other than Oswald: Ser- “Shells at the scene indicate the suspect, is armed. with an automatic .38 rather. than 4 ‘pistol” (presumably, Hill noted: the distinctive marks made by the ejector of an automatic). In‘the same vein, . -Patrolman H: L: Summers announced, **He’s apparently armed. with a .32 dark: finish automatic pistol. . na First flashes had ‘the killer with “black wavy hair” and a “white shirt, ” certainly not. a de- ||. scription -of Oswald : that day (Sawyer Exhibit No. A, ‘pp. 396-397). And the best placed eyewitness, Domingo Bena-. vides, described a_killer quite. different ||: from ‘Oswald: “I Temember the back of || his head seemed like his hairline sort of went square instead ‘of: tapered off—it kind of went down and: squared off and. -made his hiead look flat in back.” * Garrison posits that the real. killer hid in 4 cavernous building at the corner of . Tenth and Crawford which in 1963 was known as the Abundant Life Temple. In an aerial view of the area, the Commis- sion traced the killer's escape, path from ferson Boulevard ‘one block south, thence to the Texaco service station one block -west at Jefferson and Crawford. A “white jacket” was found at the rear of the station, which the Commission said was Oswald's. Consequently, it had the- killer reverse his path so as to bring him. back onto Jefferson and Proceeding i ina westerly direction. toward the theater. (CE 1968). Rejecting this arbitrary reconstruction, - Garrison points out that the killer could have proceeded straight ahead 'from the. rear of the: Texaco station, across an alley and irito the rear door of the Abun- dant Life Temple. This view is corrob- orated by police radio logs. Shortly after 1:40 p.m., Sergeant Hill came on the air: “A witness reports that he last was seen : pictured Ruby as a blustery night club _ Scribbled: to-a- succeeding- attorney,.J _ Mrs. ‘Kennedy wouldn’t have to come , | Eva Grant, and ‘a brother, Earl, ’ Detroit, who sent “‘a telegram of undis-. the retired general's : Car-95 ordered, “Send me another squad over here to’ Tenth and Crawford to check out this church basement. ” At this point Car 223 burst in excited- ly, ‘“He’s in the. library on Jefferson east - 500 block... I’m going around back, . get somebody around the front, get them - here fast.” The dispatcher complied, and " Car 19-soon affirmed, We're all at the library. ” There was. no suspect’ at the library, but the Abundant Life. Temple had been spared a shakedown. | - The grave problem, of course, was ' how to eliminate Oswald, who knew too - much. This was where ‘Jack Ruby came in. ‘Although the Warren ‘Commission | Operator with a soft spot in his heart for dogs and- dames, who killed Oswald o an. impulse: of one-man ‘justice, the real Ruby was no buffoon. The fiction that. - he executed Oswald out of compassion for the Kennedy family was conjured up by his first attorney, the late Tom How- ‘ard. “Joe, you should: ‘know this,” Rub; Tonahill: “Tom Howard told me to.sa that I shot Oswald so that Caroline and. to Dallas to testify. OK?". Ina memorandum | dealing with his “background, Ruby specialists on. the . Commission compiled a list of persons seemingly “the most ‘promising sources _ of contact between Ruby and politically ; motivated : ‘groups ‘interested in securing the assassination of President Kennedy” (CE 2980). Included were Ruby’s sister, of . closed’ nature to Havana, Cuba, April 1, . 1962” and made “‘calls to Welsh [sic] |. Candy Company” in Belmont, Massa- chusetts, then owned by Birch Society . founder Robert, Welch.-Also listed by the e Commission was Thomas Hill, an ‘“‘o ciaf of the John: Birch Society”’ in mont whose 'S “A tebook, and Lamar Hunt, the son of Ruby was an admirer of General win A. alker. He told former Okla- homa ‘City police detective Cliff Rob- - erts, who had been hired by Walker to investigate the potshot taken at Walker - in April 1963, that Walker was “100 per cent right’ about Castro’s Cuba and it ’ should be “blown out of the ocean.” William. McEwan Duff, who served as “Batman” from ' RAMPARTS 59
2d? et Bp ih gh af ah Peo Tit Te FE LS Br PROCES a. one SDP SND PIP OT Ea at Peoples World iat Switzerland, August, 1968 Land stamps,-se dt ae ag £0 POPE LIP IE APPLIED. oneese! ; a ennnvetore SPE E EPRI I OSL Arennes. utaindated cod MILLION DOLLARS Wanted. to Speed. ‘Success of the World Constitutional Convention and Peoples World. Parliament in 1968 The date: and ‘place for the. first working sessions are fixed for “August 27 to September 10,1968, at Interlaken, Switzerland. Delegates are already pledged ‘to attend from 40 countries, Others are invited. Now we need enough money to STAY Fn ote 9A pay FURR me eR IE pin ! iene Baiyesth seepage a ew -can take the offensive to declare and enforce peace. You have witnessed the futility of trying to stop war: by protest alone. Here i is the welfare’ of all. With $1 ,000,000 or fractions thereof we Swill * Carry on:a world-wide publicity campaign in the magazines ‘and | papers ‘of many countries. - * Organize local groups and national branches t to > help elect delegates, buitd “support, and ‘follow through. an : % Send: envoys to all continents to obtain action by people, and support of friendly governments and parliaments. * Help pay ‘the expenses of delegates from poorer countries. * Pay, the costs of ‘continuing after the first two. weeks at Interlaken’ for ¢ a smaller group commissioned to complete drafting the World Constitution and a World Magna: ‘Charta. . * Prepare a world economic: development ‘organization for the benefit of the countries - ‘which join. the World Federation. * Publish’ a monthly periodical (Across Frontiers) to report the action: and ’ drafting. a World Constitution. HUMANITY: ARCHITECT OR VICTIM oF HISTORY? TI am interested i in backing: the plan for a World Constitutional Conven- tion and: Peoples World Parliament. Please send full information.  - _______Enclosed. is $$$_____ right now! ($6 subscribes. to ACROSS FRONTIERS, ‘plus: 5 sheets of stamps in color.) : I am interested in becoming a delegate. Send details. Name - Address City State i lip Return to: World Committee for a World Constitutional Convention develop this plan for all that it is worth as a course of action by which people . opportunity to join in creating, the institutions.which are.required to.end.war by . q uniting the people: ‘of Earth under, a world government ‘designed. to serve. the . discuss ‘in depth all issues connected with a Peoples World Parliament and - tl 8800 West 14th Ave., Denver, Colo. 80215 Phone (303) 233- 3548 | A: late 1962° to early 1963, advised the | - Secret Service that Ruby, who was ad- . dressed only as ‘‘Jack,” visited Walker ~~ “on the basis of about once a nionth, each'time in the company of two uniden- tified white males” (CE 2389). A cross-section of Ruby’s acquaint- ances can bé found in the list of 66 per- sons he favored with permanent passes to the Carousel Club. There is of course a passel of local businessmen. But there is also W. F. (Bill) Alexander, the hard- bitten. Dallas assistant DA, and ‘three . |» men pegged by: a Gartison investigator: as Dallas Minutemen. Since fio facet of the investigation seems complete. without 1 a-strange coincidence, it can be noted that when Carousel Club passholder Sue Blake vacated her apartment, 10746D Lake Gardens, the next occupant was . § Sergio. Arcacha Smith, formerly of 544 . “Camp Street, New Orleans. ., ‘{ , Also‘on the pass list is H. iH. (Andy) Anderson, at the time manager of: the Adolphus Hotel:. Last May, Garrison _| sought to explain the legal materiality of -«Clay. Shaw’s.notebook in terms of an - entry,--‘‘Lee. Odom; : PO Box. .19106, a Dallas, Tex.” He poirited out that it cor- responded to “PO 19106” in Oswald's ‘address book, and theorized that it might be a coded version of Ruby's unlisted telephone number. Within’ be few ‘days ‘a Lee: Odom: came forth in: Dallas to explain away. ‘the coincidence, In 1966, he was:in New Orleans “trying to promote a bull fight” and asked the manager of the Roosevelt. Hotel: who (might: put ‘him in contact with the right people. “He suggested Mr. Shaw,” sdid dom, “So I called him—or the manager led him . . He came over to. the hote! and we: talked. " The manager of the oosevelt was "Anderson, who had oved © from Dallas. In subsequent versions of ‘the story, including the: one told toa national. audience.on CBS téle- ision, Odom ieft Anderson completely: ut of. it and maintained he and Shaw. ad introduced-themselves ata bar. _Ruby’s affinity for Cuba is well-docu- mented. The Warren Report advises that in January 1959, just after Castro took power, “Ruby ‘made preliminary inqui- ries, aS a. middleman, concerning’ the - possible sale’ to Cliba of: some suryilus jeeps located in Shreveport, La., and asked about the possible release of pris- oners from ‘a,Cuban prison” (p. 369). Ruby had teleptioned a Houston man named Robert Ray McKeown, knows af |
° throughout. Texas as a friend of Castro, offering a total’ of $15,000 ‘to usé his - influence to obtain, the: release of three - Americans held in Havana. The money, Ruby told McKeown, would come from a Las Vegas, ‘Nevada: source (CE 1689). - McKeown heard nothing’ more about the prisoner deal, which. may be ex- “ a plained by the news report on: January 6, "1961, that three. ‘Americans had made their way out of jail. and ‘back to: the United States.-But a few weeks after the telephone call, Ruby contacted: Mc- Keown in person, this time offeririg him $25,000 for a letter of introduction.to Castro. According. to McKeown, Ruby “had. an option on a great number of jeeps which were in Shreveport, Lotisi-° ana, and he desired. to sell them to Castro at ‘a very profitable figure. ” McKeown agreed to arrange the intro- duction, but: once again Ruby. failed to follow through.. The reason may have been that Maurice Brooks Gatlin of the New ’ Orleans-based Anti-Communism League of the ‘Caribbean scotched: the’ ~-deal: ‘Minutemen: ‘defector. Jerry: Brooks discloses that the minute Gatlin. fourid » Out that Ruby proposed to sell Castro ; 100° Jeeps, he warned the venturesome night club: owner ‘to call it off. Gatlin ; may have detected signs that the new Cuban Premier was about to surface as a communist. The Warren Report observes that dur- ' ing the period of the jeep ‘negotiations, gambler Russell D. Matthews, described as-a “passing acquaintance” of Ruby’s, © returned to Dallas from Havana, then . Several months later went back to the . Cuban capital for a year. It also makes . the correlation that Matthews’ ex-wife in- Shreveport received a ‘lengthy tele- Phone call from: Ruby’s Carousel Club on October 3, 1963. But with a denial. from Matthews that he knew anything about the “jeep deal,” and an inability’ on the ‘part of: Mrs. ‘Matthews to re-. member the long distance call, the Com-. : Mission ran out of curiosity. Matthews HEPES? BOTS PR EE SEO SG declares (p. 370). But Thayer Waldo, an old Latin hand with | sources’ inside Cuba,. reports that Ruby boasted to at least two Americans. _ that he was “in with. both. sides” while sitting in Castro’s ‘domain. Among the Cuban exiles he claimed: to be close to, was Rolando Masferrer, a former Ba: ’ tista official who had headed" “The Tigers,” a dreaded private army: ‘during the dictator’s regime. . One of the many Dallas police officers ‘who frequented the Carousel Club has told Garrison that in mid-1962 Ruby. ; left on‘a two-week trip, saying he was : going to New Orleans and then to‘Cuba. “to pick up an act for the club. ” When: . he returned he was uncharacteristically tight- lipped about his trip—and without ; : an act. 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House. { ount given by Ruby of his trip ADDRESS { ADDRESS... _ to Cuba in September 1959 also strains credulity. “Ruby traveled to Havana as 8uest-of a close: friend and known gam- bler, Lewis J. MeWillie,” the Report CITY, STATE & ZIP ' : CITY, STATE & ZIP. Send check or money orderto: LORIN. GILLETTE DISTRIBUTOR, P.O. Box 15125, San Francisco 94115. _No cash please, RAMPARTS 61
oe whoo TE Sas: 22." x28" oo : $2.00 “IMPULSE - BOX 466 CALIF. 94920 , mu Mexico City that year 1 (es g. CE 3055). If Ruby did go to Cuba in 1962,,it may have beeri on narcotics business. As long ago as 1956, a woman named Eileen _ Curry told the FBI that her paramour, , James Breen, had: become : cozy: with Ruby and had ‘accompanied: RUBY to an unnamed location, where he had been ' _.shown moving pictures of various .bor-... ‘der guards, -both ‘Mexican: and. Amer- ican.” Curry said that Breen “was enthused over what he ‘considered’ an extremely efficient operation in connec- tion with narcotics traffic.” Curry went to the FBI after, Breen failed to return from a trip to” Mexico, and repeated her story in 1963 after the. assassination (Ce 1761, 1762). ° , " Texas editor Penn Jones Jr has delved into a story consistent with Eileen Cur- - ry’s. On November. 20, 1963, a woman | named Rose: ‘Chermi. was thrown from a. ‘ moving automobile near Eunice; Louisi- ana. Hospitalized with injuries and nar- cotics symptoms, she: said she ‘was a ; ‘Ruby employee traveling to Florida with two men to “pick up: a load of narcotics ; for Ruby. She told the attending physi- | cian that Kennedy and other Officials were going to be killed on their: impend- ing-visit to Dallas. Sh Shown a news story after the assass deni Knowing Caw Mise Cherm chortled, ‘Th d mate: his probe got underway, Garrison at. . | tempted to locate ter-but-was-tee-tate. On September 4, 1965, she wae titled By- On Septemb a hit-and-run driver-whi oT a highway near Big Sahdy;Fexas. ‘It is also possible that Ruby’s alleged 1962 trip to Cuba concerned gun- running. Nancy Perrin Rich told the Commission that she and her late hus- 62 RAMPARTS . band, who had ties to organized crime, attended a meeting in Dallas in 1962, in which plans were discussed to smuggle ; guns into Cuba and refugees out: The key planners were Ruby, an Army: “light colonel,” and a heavy-set “Cuban ‘or Mexican,”. and she gathered. that Ruby was the “bag man” who handled the funds. She said the.guns were to be pro- cured through a Mexican contact (Vol. 14, p. 330ff). Garrison has additional evidence of gun-running by Ruby which cannot be divulged.at this time. _ . The allegations of narcotics trafficking . and guri-running should be put in some - perspective. In 1962, Cuba and Red . China reportedly had entered into a barter agreement in which Cuban. sugar would be exchanged for narcotics, but the narcotics were 4 white elephant until sold for U.S. dollars. This is where buck- hungry organized crime elements came ‘in, and just possibly Jack Ruby. In this _context his claim that he was playing both sides of the street may not have been sheer’ braggadocio. In the strange J _...by.. Wade .as Oswald. He described the . others as a young man of “very fair pale . complexion,” and an older, stocky Latin. _ man who kad “numerous biimps.on his ‘trigue, Ruby. may well- have been. smug- : gling narcotics into the United States and guns into the hands of Cuban i in- surgenits. . . It is fair to say that not much. in the way of Caribbean intrigue’ went on in those days without the CIA, ‘or: at least - | CIA operatives, having a finger in it. Thus the allegatio) a weapons expert ‘and omous CIA clique which had been profit- eering if narcotics and:gun-running. was ae a ine Usidechil eas found dead of a bull et wound i nolice decided it was self-inflicted, the “ circums stanc an old friend wrote to. Underhill s widow asking about his. demise, the reply came from an, official of a now defunct ‘Wash- ington firm, Falcon Aeronautics, Inc., which smacks of having been an ad hoc CIA front. The officia! dismissed Under- hill’ s allegations with the comment that | they were “similar to those flights of his imagination which he had during the last year-or so of his life.” The question remains whether or not newsmen in the police basement had | flights of imagination when they thought they detected a flicker of recognition on . Oswald’s part just before Ruby shot him: We have already examined the report of ? . attorney Carroll Jarnagin [RaMPaRts, ; November 1966] — who .claims that he _eavesdropped ona Ruby-Oswald conver- _ sation in the Carousel Club the night of - October 4, 1963, in which, the desire of —... organized ‘crime to do: away with Gov... .-: ernor Connally was discussed — and the statement of Wilbryn “Bob” Litchfield that he sat next to Oswald in the Carou- 7 sel Club office in early November while both were waiting to see: Ruby, [Ram 7 ‘PARTS, June 1967]. . In. addition, there is the cogent state- ” ment of Harvey. L. Wade, a Chattanooga building inspector who dropped into the - Carousel Club the. night of November 10, 1963. Wade said that a club photog-: rapher. snapped a a shot of a customer and _ in the background were three men sitting - }f at the bar. Ruby strode. over to the - : photographer and | “yelled that the 4 photographs did not turn out.”. One of the men in the background was identified face and was believed to have a one-inch scar in the eyebrow of his left eye” (CE 2370). The ‘two match the descriptions ‘of prime suspects -in Garrison’ $ investi-. . gation, ‘the latter of the bull-necked ey - Cuban who tagged around after Oswald a . in New Orleans in the summer of. 1963, Further indication of a Ruby-Oswaid "link appears in the statement of the Rev. Clyde Johnson which. was filed by. Garri- son ‘in answer to a Clay Shaw defense motion. Rev. Johnson, a candidate for / . governor. of Louisiana | in 1962, who . - ranted against Kennedy i in his campaign, ; said that he twice attended. meetings that “fail at. which Oswald, Ruby, Shaw and » an unknown Cuban were present. The Rx first was in the Roosevelt Hotel in New. we Orleans, the second on September 2) in the ‘Capitol House Hotel in Baton’ § Rouge. He recalled that Oswald was in- troduced as Leon, Ruby as Jack, and Shaw as. Alton, Bernard. On the latter ‘ occasion, he said, Shaw passed manila envelopes to Oswald and Ruby which purportedly contained money.’ : While such eyewitness accounts must be. weighed with the credibility of the . witness in mind, there is documentary evidence of a Ruby-Oswald link as well Oswald's address book contains the er.