Posted on 02/18/2008 11:35:37 AM PST by presidio9
A transcript that reads like a conspiracy theorist's dream -- Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby plotting to kill President John F. Kennedy -- is part of a batch of long-hidden items and documents revealed on Monday.
Experts say the transcript is almost certainly a fake.
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins presented the items at a news conference on Monday. He said they were locked in a safe for nearly two decades and that investigators had made him aware of them after he took office in 2006.
Curator Gary Mack of the Sixth Floor Museum near where the president was shot hasn't seen the transcript but doubts it is real. Watkins' top assistant said the document is likely material for a proposed movie.
The items also include Ruby's brown leather gun holster, brass knuckles found on Ruby when he was arrested, and a movie contract former Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade signed.
Other items found in an old safe on the 10th floor of the county courthouse include letters to and from Wade, the now-dead prosecutor in the Ruby trial, The Dallas Morning News reported in Sunday's editions. Ruby shot and killed Kennedy assassin Oswald two days after the president's death.
There are also letters to Ruby, records from his trial, and clothing that probably belonged to Ruby and Oswald, Watkins said Sunday.
Much of the attention is bound to focus on the transcript, supposedly from a meeting between Ruby and Oswald at Ruby's nightclub on October 4, 1963, less than two months before the November 22 assassination. In it, they talk of killing the president because the Mafia wants to "get rid of" his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
Says Oswald in the transcript, "I can still do it, all I
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Implying that it's also inaccurate.
Don’t EVER depend on anything the Dallas DA says. He is one of the biggest losers to ever hold office.
Why and how on earth could there be a transcript of such a discussion??? It makes zero sense.
You don’t have all your conversations transcribed? Not even the ones where you are discussing killing the President?
It was an embarrassing presser. Fox cut away shortly after he mentioned a movie contract.
Sure... criminals always make transcripts of their plots.
This just in from Dan Rather: “Fake but accurate. Courage!”
What gave it away?
The fax stamp from a Texas Kinkos?
Fake, but inaccurate. Hey, wasn’t Dan Rather in Texas back in ‘63?
The beauty of stupidity
Yep, much more than meets the eye.
Don’t be so quick to judge. I hear that in the transcript Ruby also gave Oswald a web site address that he used to buy the rifle! There’s even a FedEx receipt for the delivery.
... who ‘FAKED’ it? How is it ‘FAKED’? Was it faked 40 years ago? or yesterday?
Are all the other items in the safe fakes?
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Why, surely you jest! Lee had HIS Secretary transcribe the discussion for the record. Jack Ruby’s secretary was tired from the lap-dances she gave the night before.
Fiction.
If you knew you would not be around for history to ask you I am guessing you might.
The Kenndys picked on safe targets, the teamsters union, the Cincinati/Ky. mob, etc. They kept away from the big boys, the mafia, the syndicate, the CIO, The UAW etc. All the while focusing the publics attention on Bobbies heroics.
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