Posted on 02/17/2008 1:28:35 PM PST by NormsRevenge
DALLAS (Reuters) - A batch of old documents linked to the slaying of President John F. Kennedy has reportedly been unearthed, including a highly suspect transcript of a conversation between assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald's killer Jack Ruby, the Dallas Morning News said on Sunday.
The newspaper said the Dallas County district attorney's office, which uncovered the documents, would display its discovery at a news conference on Monday morning.
The Morning News said the items found in an old safe in a Dallas courthouse included personal letters from former District Attorney Henry Wade, the prosecutor in the Ruby trial. Ruby shot Oswald two days after the president's death.
Also found were official records from Ruby's trial, a gun holster and clothing that probably belonged to Ruby and Oswald, District Attorney Craig Watkins told the newspaper.
But one potentially controversial item is a transcript of an exchange between Oswald and Ruby in which they discuss killing Kennedy to halt the mafia-busting agenda of his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
The Morning News said one theory about the transcript was that it was part of a movie script Wade was working on with producers, for a film that was never made.
The transcript resembles one published by the Warren Commission, which investigated Kennedy's assassination and concluded Oswald acted alone. The FBI had determined the conversation between Oswald and Ruby -- this time about killing Texas Gov. John Connally -- was definitely fake, the newspaper said.
Connally was riding in the car with Kennedy and was wounded in the attack.
The documents may be a Presidents' Day gift to conspiracy theorists who have long questioned the official U.S. government version that Oswald acted alone when he shot Kennedy on November 22, 1963, as the president's motorcade swept past the Texas School Book Depository in downtown Dallas.
Nightclub owner Ruby subsequently shot Oswald dead at point-blank range as police were escorting their prime suspect. Ruby died a few years later from cancer.
>>Fat Ted is perfectly safe because he ain’t worth the price of a bullet.<<
I’m not sure he’s that harmless... but he is certainly closer than in the past - back in 1975 the press thought he could win the Democratic nomination just by entering the race at the last minute and having delegates change sides.
that would have been an interesting alternate reality - President Kennedy instead of President Carter.
I did a basic search and didn’t see them at the top, Oh well. I’m trying to watch Daytona , drink beer and pondering my next meal.. and I got pup watch to boot.
My dad died believing that.
My grandad died believing we didn't land on the moon, so...
That was Ruby’s testimony.
I don’t want to die yet; but I believe it. It makes the most sense.
He’s certainly not harmless in terms of damage to our way of life, but he is harmless to - and scared spitless of - those who knocked off his brothers and I think he knows exactly who was behind all of it.
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Well, Howard Hughes and Adolph Hitler both had books come out that were fakes . . . These days documents of all kinds must be taken with a grain of salt. |
Another 60's hoax...
At last the proof has been found. JFK, Elvis and MLK are living on a small Island in the Caribenean along with Natalie Holloway!
At least the reporter didn’t say “allegedly shot,” for me and millions of Americans saw that one happen live on TV.”
But they still sanitize Ruby by calling him a “nightclub” owner!
He didn’t run Ricky Ricardo’s “Tropicana” . His was more like the “Bada Bing” from the “Soprano’s”
They were a killer band, back in the day.
You got that right.
Yep, I remember their big hit, "I'm a Patsy!"
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