Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Oswald/Ruby Conversation Didn't Happen


The District Attorney of Dallas County has just released 15 boxes of paperwork and other items concerning the Kennedy assassination. The items have been locked in the safe at the DA's office for more than 40 years.

One of the items that's stirring up some controversy is a transcript of a purported meeting between Lee Harvey Oswald and his killer, Jack Ruby. A Dallas attorney said he saw the two together in Ruby's strip club a few weeks before Kennedy was killed. The transcript is his recreation of what he said he overheard that night.

There's only one problem with the transcript -- it's not true. The transcript was sent to the FBI at the time and they investigated it. They determined there was no real substance to it.

Not only was Oswald a loner and a non-drinker, making it unlikely he would meet anyone in a bar, but it was definitely determined that at the time this was supposed to have happened, Oswald was 15 miles away. He was in Irving with his wife and her housemate.

The attorney who wrote the transcript was given a lie detector test, and the only truthful thing he said was that he was drunk when he overheard the imaginary conversation.

The conversation just didn't take place. There is still absolutely no credible evidence that Oswald and Ruby ever met before the day that Ruby shot Oswald (shown above).

The sad part is that there are many conspiracy theorists who will believe this and will be perfectly willing to ignore that it has been proven not to be true. This will just serve to obfuscate the truth like Oliver Stone's JFK movie. Stone's movie contained many lies, but it is still believed by many people.

Some people believe what they want to believe, regardless of any facts.

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