try “Midland 2550”; ‘Ruby's | hasethe entry “Newton. 2550.” While their sig- nificance is unknown—Garrison specu- dates they: may be communications sig- nals of some sort—the odds’ against the same four-digit. numbers ° ‘preceded ° ‘by the names. of: Texas cities being in two : unrelated. persons’ address. books ‘by ‘sheer happenstance | are astronomical. It was, in fact, just this kind of mathemat- * jeal improbability that was instrumental in the recent ‘convictions of a mugging. team:in'Los Angeles County. And there are other “coiricidences”. as” well. In his address book, Oswald twice jotted: ‘down the number ofa Ft. Worth television station, PE 8-1951; in “June. - 1963, Ruby twice’ called: that number ° . (CE 1322, p. 517). On- September 24; 1963, David Ferrie’s telephone was charged with: a call ‘to ‘Chicago number WH 4-4970; on November: 20, 1963, this number was. called from Kansas City by Lawrence Meyers, a Chicago business: man and close-friend of Ruby’s S. Meyers artived i in Dallas, from: Kansas City-that same night, and, was. in touch ‘with-Ruby through.the traumatic post-assassination ; hours (Vol. 25, p. 335). it possi ble to look directly at these post more than 3 seconds. However, we will not be Shela responsible for detached retinae, "twice in the last pages of Oswald's book, number is: listed’. ‘to ‘Kenneth Cody{ a a . ‘Shreveport run and-an: uncle ‘of Dallas | ~ the pair of. officers escorting’ Oswald ~ was shot by Ruby. ; acknowledged having known Ruby, . “12 or.13 years.”:-He met Ruby at one of :. his clubs during the Korean War, when : Cody. was “assigned i in the Counter: In-° ; Ruby, and ‘there had been at least a half dozen times in the last two or three 7 Park while he, CODY, had ‘been skat-° : ing "(CE 1736): - : . behavior between: the assassination and ; associating himself: from the plot ‘by | The Dallas number FR 5-5591 appears | what he _actually was. Andrew Arm- strong, a Carousel employee, told the Commissién that hisiboss. was, crying on the afternoon of the 22nd. In the early morning hours of Saturday, Ruby. rousted a club flunkey, Carry: Craford, who -watched while: his boss took a Polaroid picture of a Birch Society “Im- peach Earl: Warren” -billboard. That afternoon, Ruby \displayed the picture in Sol’s Turf Club, his favorite -haunt, with suitable expressions of indignation. He went to. the post office with com- panions, peered at the box receiving re- "sponses to the black- bordered “Wanted for Treason” ad in Friday's Dallas Morning News, and uttered words of - Outrage.. , Ruby's survival as a “‘little ‘big shot” in Aryan Dallas depended upon . his obsequiousness to powerful masters. : “Some Of those whose boots he licked : were Nazis, and sublimi ally bh hé became one of them. As Garrison Put, it, XT He . connecting ‘link: Se pera,\ Y tion, from the oil-rich Sponsors ofthe a , assassination down. to. the Dallas i which ‘leads to:dnother correlation. The % Continental Trailways bus driver on the : police: officer Joe ‘Cody. A homicide bureau detective, Cody was the partner of Detective James R. Leavelle,: one. of through the police. basement when he In-an FBI. interview, ‘Joseph Cody telligence Corps” ‘and stationed fora time in-Dallas. Cody related that. he en- joyed ice skating at Fair Park, as did years: that RUBY had arrived at, -Fair Garrison contends that Ruby’ S$ ‘stagey , his- slaying of Oswald was.a way of dis-. “reversing the magnetic field" —drawing attention to himself. as the opposite of WHYTE STUDIOS Dept. A 291 Delaware Avenue] - Buffalo, -New. York 14202 $2. 98 each, any tw8 185.00 “4 io an Le ee POT (rd, bt, gr) 3 “_s Love (p k, bl, Yel)” POT (gr, lav, gid) | — LOVE (or, gr, bl) SEX (gid, rd) - sme MAFIA . (pk, yel, bik) ~ SEX (gr,;cher) |. —. MAFIA (or, lav, bik) .
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This offer.is open. . - while the supply of.these booklets _ Jasts. operation.” _a trusty; ty; reveal.that towards the-end; he | reatized- what- -his~masters really _were sold by the reputable ‘New York docu-’ ‘ment auctioneer Charles Hamilton, por- ray a man acutely aware of his Jéwish- ess who realizes with anguish, that he as served. not ultraconservatives. but lazis. “They are going to come out with story that it was.the Minutemen who. {killed the Jews,” he wrote; “don't. you believe it. they are using that to cover up for the Nazis... . Oh the way I fucked ‘that the motherfucker was a. Nazi and found me the perfect setup‘for a frame. . T was used to silence Oswald. I || down that ramp Sunday morning.” [Rec "ONSTRUCTING THE CRIME] figures in. Garrison’s ‘probe . con- verged upon Dalias. The Free Cuba group wa3 installed in the house on Har- -Jandale, which is‘in south Oak Cliff past Ruby's apartment. On October 3, the T' OCTOBER 1963, a. number of key 64 RAMPARTS _wald checked into the YMCA on North Lawrence’ Howard Jr arrived at. the - with the story of a new witness located 1963. Hall was short of funds and’ peti- -+ tioned. him for assistance’. in the anti- -Hall $50, holding a ..30. caliber rifle as - deemed ‘the weapon, commenting that _ Nazi oriented. was essentially a Nazi Ruby’ Ss jetters, smuggled out of jail by | up. this world who would ever dream - walked into a trap the moment I walked . evening he-returned from Mexico, Os- Ervay and remained two days. The same two days the ro6m next to him was oc- cupied by a Cuban-appearing young man who registered as R: Narvaez. On the night of October 17, Loren Hall and YMCA; they. checked out on October 22. The arrival of Hall possibly dovetails - by Garrison. The, witness stated that in Castro movement. He. declined, but lent collateral. About .a month ‘before the assassination, the witness says, Hall. re- he was going to Dallas: to meet with a wealthy oilman—the same oifman who, Garrison knows, posted bail for Hall - and William. Seymour when’ they were arrested in Dallas in mid: October (in ‘September 1966, the FBI stripped Dallas police’ files of all pertinent- -material-con- cerning the arrests). As‘will be: recalled,” ‘the record shows that the. FBI did not locate and ‘interview Hall, Howard and Seymour until just before the Warren. Report went’ to press. ‘But what makes these belated interviews. seem: dissem- he was questioned by the F BE about Hall: and the .30 caliber rifle on the day after “the assassination. Coupled with this development is, the statement of Joseph Roland Hummel, “who resided at the YMCA that October. Hummel has told. Garrison that he. had been casually acquainted with Oswald i in New Orleans, and saw him again at the Dallas YMCA in late October. On two occasions he saw Oswald with a “skinny, thin- haired” young Anglo, on one oc- . casion on the sun roof of the YMCA with Jack Ruby. What was Ruby’ s. role before. he.’ was pressed into. service to do away with Oswald? _A Houston Secret Service re- port prepared within days of Ruby’s | shooting of Oswald synopsizes: “Nue - AY . merous witnesses identify Jack Leon Rubenstein, alias Jack Ruby, as being in Houston, Texas on November 21, for several hours, one ‘block from the Presi- dent’s entrance route and from the Rice Hotel where [the President] stayed.” The Houston report was countermanded by | a Dallas SS report that flatly. declared: _ “Ruby was in Dallas on November 21, 4-1/2 hour gap in accounting for. Ruby’ s ‘presence in Dallas that day, giving him — " motorcade in Houston. Complementing |. torney that Ruby’s sister, Eva Grant. ‘watching the motorcade there [Ram- ~ noticed an obese woman rooted toa Spot. , east two hours—waiting for the Presi- - dent’s entourage to pass on its way to thi ’ airport and the short hop. to Houston. ' After Ruby shot. Oswald: and Eva's | “picture was shown’ Gn“ television, thé--- . Alocer party immediately recognized- her =: bling is that the new witness swears. that , - Plaza. ‘Around 1 :00 p.m. he was spotted . Wilma Tice and newsman Seth Kantor - _ who knew Ruby. well, had Seen. him. . somewhere. ‘other than ‘Parkland—eveh k . “trauma room? Since no oné saw hini do é 1963." The Dallds version was predi- ae cated upon two alibi incidents furnished" by Ruby, plus the inconclusive state- ment of Andrew Armstrong that “‘he did not know of Ruby having made any long trips away from Dallas + recently” (CE 2399). Garrison points out that there was a- © adequate time to fly back and forth that afternoon to “case” the Presidential this is the report of a Mexico City at. te was i in San Antonio that samie morning PARTS, November: 1966). Arturo Alocer Ruiz, his wife and her woman friend were in San Antonio on vacation. They near the Gunter Hotel—she was there at as the obese woman they had’ seen in San Antonio. Although, the FBI sloughed ‘ott | the report, Garrison considers it reliable. Shortly before and after the assassinu- tion, Ruby. was ‘placed’ by witnesses in... -the Dallas. Morning News ' building. oy which commands a view of Dealey . at Parkland Hospital by housewile (in. one of its more disingenuous | ee ments, | the Commission claimed that Bi Mrs. Tice was. mistaken and, that Kantor. though Kantor’ graphically described - _being collared: by the night club ownir — at the bottom of a hospital staircise). Was it Ruby: ‘who planted the so-called magic. -bullet on 4 stretcher outside the it, we can only speculate. But.as we have & - seen,. Ruby’s actions were hardly irra “tional, and it was-‘that, bullet which , - forged the final link for the Commissiin "between Oswald: and the. assassination. Bt “(t. did not seem to bother’ the Coninis . sion, that the bullet was in near-pristint § condition, Jooking more like.it had bees Bis fired into a stuffing box than through the ae sinew, muscle and bone of Kennedy and § Connally: [CE 399].). . For a bachelor of casual habits, Sut
" "day morning, November 24, was possibly _’ the most synchronized in Ruby’s life. At 11;17 a.m. by automatic time stamp, he ~ wiréd $25to Mrs. Bruce Ray Carlin, stage . name Little Lynn, one of his.performers _who lived'in Ft. Worth (surely a pretext: . the night before; Little Lynn and her hus-. band had made’ a special: trip to the " Carousel— Ruby lent him $5—and Ruby _ was carrying several thousand dollars in cash). Then ‘he strode from the: Western ‘Union -office’ across the street from’ the _ police department to the Main ‘Street entrance of the policé basement. How he | slipped through the guard: is open to . question, but his timing. was exquisite. Listening to the sound tracks of video- tapes: made in the basement about the time the elevator ‘carrying Oswald ar- rived at basement level, one hears the _ hollow-sounding “‘honk” of a car horn (only police ‘vehicles were in the base- ment), then a pause of some four sec- onds, then another “honk” closely fol- lowed ‘by the: crack of Ruby’s pistol. Were the “honks” signaling to'Ruby the ' =-progress of his victim so he could sud-) - denly push through the press.ranks? In :,one of his letters smuggled from jail | “Ruby wrote, “If you hear a lot of horn- blowing, it will be for me, they will want my blood!" 0: a “Jy SED ON THE FRESH evidence in B Garrison’s possession, we can A now. partially reconstruct the op- tration and getaway on Nove "As vi Fe [Ramparts, ‘contends that the e” _ the Grassy Ki . trom the. fra _T ordinated by radio. © To recapitulate, railroader S. M. Hol- land, standing on the Triple Underpass, insists to this day that “there definitely - Was a shot fired from behind that fence - lon the Knoll]. The late Lee Bowers, who was in the railroad tower directly north of the Knoll; testified that three “ars, one radio-equipped, prowled the barking lot between his tower ‘and the "Knoll shortly before the ‘shooting; he suid they definitely were not law enforce- _ ment vehicles. Bowers stated he saw two men behind the picket fence on the Knoll Just before the shots were fired, one “middle-aged” and “heavy-set,”” the ther “about midtwenties in either a was fired’ from tering angle _.<An open letter from Otto Preminger Dear Ramparts Reader: . - _ Several months ago, I was shown a film titled, “You Dig It,” made in New York—under the Mobilization for Youth program—by a group of young men and women from poor Negro and Puerto’ Rican homes. It was an outstanding effort, in my opinion.’ : “You Dig It” was made without professional guidance. The script was written by a 16-year old; directed and filmed by two 20-year olds; with a cast composed of 50 youngsters between 15 and 20 with no previous film- making experience. a a - T'was so excited about “You Dig It’”-that I ‘met with the young film ~ “makers. Outwardly, they looked just like any other group of similar age and background. But inwardly they glowed. These young people—who were born to failure and had only hopelessness ahead of them—suddenly and dramatically achieved success. Not money, not fame—not yet. But seeing _ themselves and their films on TV and at Lincoln Center... hearing their work praised by seasoned professionals . .. winning a first prize (the Plaque: of the Lion of St: Marc) at the 1967 Venice Documentary Film Festival .. . _has given them pride, purpose—and almost fulfillment of their dream. But—and there is always a but—the Mobilization-for Youth Program can- not provide. any more. money. The group has appealed to various founda- _ tions, but their decisions often take so long that these teen-agers may be in wheelchairs beforé the red tape is cut and. the money. comes in. “Knowing that Ramparts readers ‘share many of my views and concerns, I _ ask you to join me in supporting this talented group. They need a total of $80,000 to continue their work for another. year, which includes’ produc- tion of a.feature film and-two half-hour shorts... 2 . > oo Please take a moment now to fill out the coupon below, then mail it with your check today. Whatever you can afford to.give will be deeply appre- ciated. Your contribution is tax-deductible, of course:. ‘Sincerely fy 4 tto Preminger h Cultural Arts Dept., Mobilization for Youth, 214 E. Second St., N.Y., N.Y. 10009 Here is my contribution of $ to enable the:young men and women who made “You Dig It’to continue their movie work for another year. NAME . ADDRESS_______ CITY. STATE___________ip Please make checks payable to: Cultural Arts Department, Mobilization for Youth. Contributions are tax-deductible. . So RAMPARTS 65
plaid shirt or plaid coat or jacket. ” AL though the men were partly obscured by. foliage when the shots rang out, ‘Bowers said that in ‘their vicinity there was “some unusual occurrence—a flash of light or smoke or something...” (Vol. 6, pp: 228ff). Postal employee J.C. Price, who had:a bird’s-eye view of the scene, picked up from there: “I saw one man run towards the passenger cars on the railroad: siding after the volley: of . shots [the parking lot is. bisected by a railroad spur]. This man -had:a white dress shirt;. no tie and: khaki-colored trousers. His hair appeared to be long and dark and from his agility in running could be 25 years of age. He had some- thing in his hand..1 ‘couldn’t be sure but it, may. have been a head | piece” (CE 2003, p..222). - A new: -witness of Gartison’s ‘(tie is afraid to have his name ‘made. public), ‘who had the same vantage’ point as ice, states that after the: shots were fired, two men dashed from behind the Knoll fence and headed behind. the De- orth, away from the scene. The third, \a “heavyset, dark-complexioned” man, ‘Nbroceeded back toward. Dealey Plaza ‘and disappeared. It is quite possibly this ‘third man: whom James, R. Worrell de- ribed: to the Commission. When the ! | shooting started, said ‘Worrell, he sought i rear of the Depository Building. “I was there approximately three minutes be- i | fore I saw this man come out the back | door... the way he was running, I would say he was in his late twenties or middle | I mean. early thirties . . .:his coat was | |open and kind of flapping ‘back’ in the ‘ lalongside the building ‘back toward the Dente Plaza area (Vol. 2, pp. 190-201). ithough his questioning. by the. Com- (° Mnission was less than exhaustive, there i will be no more interviews: Worrell died [ ira traffic accident on November 9, 1966. About 15 minutes after the assassina- tion, Deputy Sheriff Roger D. Craig testified. he “observed an individual run ‘down the grass area from the direction of ‘the Texas School Book Depository. He heard this individual whistle: and a white Rambler station wagon, driven by a Negro male, pulled over to the curb and said individual gotin...” (CE 1967). The incident is corroborated by 66 RAMPARTS { Marvin C. Robinson, who told the FBI ‘he was driving past the Depository some- , said that a Negro was driving the Ram- sitory “Building, ‘where they. were” ined by a third man. Two of them got a Rambler. station wagon and ‘drove © ‘ south of-Oak Cliff at about 1:00 p.m. : i cover across Houston Street from the | _ with this information is the assertion of - i breeze. ” Worrell asserted the man.ran . .. into Mexico. - the Winnipeg, Canada airport February ' man whom Garrison’s. staff has inter- " wald had told his wife about the assassi- % | brought up an unidentified man named Isaacs; they fourid it odd that “Isaacs” would become mixed up with a “psycho” like Oswald. In their conversation, a man referred to as Hoffman or Hock- { man was to “relieve” Isaacs and-destroy . his 1958 model automobile. “We have more money. at our disposal now than ~ at any other time,” the older man re- . ported. He disclosed that the group of which both men apparently were a part would hold a meeting in a Kansas City hotel in March with reservations made. in'the naine. ofa textile concern. At’ this. point the pair noticed Giesbrecht, who ~ ‘started to a phone to notify police. A ‘third man materialized and blocked his. way. The trio quickly disappeared. time between 12:30 and 1:00 p.m. when “a light-colore® Nash station wagon suddenly appeared before him. He stated this vehicle stopped and a white male came down the grass-covered in- cline between the building and the street and entered the station wagon. after which it drove away in the direction of the Oak Cliff section...” (Dallas FBI report 89-43). ‘Robinson paid no. attention to the. man, but Craig said it was Oswald: The Commission rejected’ his identification “Because of the overwhelming evidence that Oswald was far. away from the build- ing at that time.” Once again, the Com- mission ignored the possible manifesta- tion of an Oswald double, this time one who may have been one of the assassins, shooting from the Depository Building. Recently Craig went to. New Orleans to confer with. Garrison. Among other ° things, he told the DA that he had not i. eI ONE RTI ‘bier, but a “dark, swarthy’ ‘man, possibly” = a Cuban.” On‘his return to Dallas, Craig |) noticed-that s temen- organization. Recently witness Giesbrecht was shown . ‘an assortment of photographs. “That's the man with the bushy eyebrows,” he explained, picking out a mug s shot of David. Ferrie. ; . ‘a:bullet whizzed by his head... ‘A possible getaway plane was-spotted at Red Bird Airport some few miles Two women have reported that they saw v4 a twin-engine plane, engines idling, sit- , ting well: ‘away from. the paved access strips and, runway, and close to.the’ high- way from Dallas via Oak Cliff. Coupled . [THE POWER Lay) {HE CLOSER GARRISON comes to fii- | i tgather at the pieces Of the assassination—mosaic,-- the -more ‘desperate the. attempt to squelch him be- | 3 ‘comes. Long ago the “na fational'security” curtain was dropped on over 200 docu- “in the National ane that a Garrison informant that. a Minuteman - in Arizona boasted to- him that one of | the Cubans on the: assassination - team was flown to Arizona and hid out in his . home before slipping 2 across the border ‘There isa sequel to this 5 flurry of move--- ment; it took place.in. the restaurant of - 13, 1964. Richard Giesbrecht; a business- ‘ CE a ator ean ; gain access to them. fo , viewed, was “waiting for a juncheon ‘And how do. items: turn ‘up * partner and overheard a ‘conversation at an adjacent table between a man of .| about fifty who wore a hearing aid and spoke with a Southern. accent: and a younger man with -‘‘bushy. hair and | bushy pronounced eyebrows.” Both. ex-| pressed concern over how much Lee Os- 6 1 Bi intained b ry. raford [his Ca‘ov- ‘p - sef Club flunky. who scurried out of Dallas. the. aanoon of the - assassiria- tion). oreover, "Garrison_ pbserves nation plot. In their conversation, they | di ae