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Final word the semifinal word and that the commissions job would be to read it and essentially endorse the findings of the report. >> the members of the warren commission, earl warren, john sherman cooper, jeremy ford, allen dulles, hale boggs, richard russell and john j.mc j.mccloy realized they had to do an independent investigation. >> theres three they had to grapple with. did oswald commit the physical act of the murder and even if he did the fizz alabaphysical act e forces behind him and t...

Speaking, oswalds murder was to shut him up. >> captain fritz has just told me that ruby said he did it, that it was his gun and that he had built up a tremendous grievance over the death of the president. >> in jack rubys small mind, he thought he would become a big, big hero. he killed the guy who killed the president. >> i commend what he did. i think he ought to win the congressional honor for it, and a lot of other good american citizens think he did the right thing in shooting down this co...

>> at 10:00, the evidence is undisputed that jack ruby was at home asleep. then he got dressed and drove downtown. >> the receipt shows ruby sending a money order to one of his strippers at a western union across from the courthouse at 11:17 a.m. at 11:20, three minutes later a block away jack ruby killed lee harvey oswald. the evidence showed he was down there anywhere from 5 to 15 seconds. 5 to 15 seconds. if this this is a hired assassin thats supposed to have some advanced information he is ...

Not seated directly in front of kennedy. >> if you figure out the alignment of where the men sat, and if you look down as i did and as the others did who conducted the on-site tests, and had the automobile placed in the position, it is perfectly plain, i submit to you, that the bullet that exited from president kennedys throat would have to strike either the automobile, which it did not, or someone else in the automobile. >> to believe that it didnt hit governor connally, that would be a real ma...

>> he had everyone and their grandmother involved in the assassination. the oil millionaires and minute men and then it was a homosexual killing. >> do you feel that homosexuality or coercion was a factor in the assassination of john f. kennedy. >> no comment. >> he had 16 assassins in the plaza. i dont know how he made it to the autopsy table. >> he announced he discovered a code. jack rubys unlisted telephone number appears in address books belonging to shaw and oswald. >> p gives you 7, oh gi...

Is jack rubenstein, i believe. he goes by the name of jack ruby. >> and here at associated press, a still picture of the moment, the split second as the shot was fired. this is the man dallas police have identified as jack rubenstein, and this of course, is lee harvey oswald. you see the gun in the hand of ruby and just about to be fired. >> i know my own feelings were and i think they were widely shared by many, if not most americans. this cant be coincidental. the assassin is assassinated in t...

A paid killer to close the mouth of my son, lee harvey oswald. >> the question of whether ruby knew oswald before or was in cahoots to kill him is one of the most important questions. because ruby knew people in criminal activities, there was a lot of investigation about a potential conspiracy. >> ruby would have been one of the most unlikely and worst hit men that the mob could ever get. >> on november the 24th, 1963, lee harvey oswald is supposed to have been transferred at 10:00. at 10:00, th...

Vigilan vigilante. he wanted people to flock to his night club to shake the hand of the man that killed the man who killed the president. >> i might add, if ruby silenced oswald for the mob, who was supposed to silence jack ruby. he died of normal causes over three years later. now one would think that the conspiracy community would fold its tent and go home but they continued undaunted and unphased with this obsession. >> their game is to fool you. these people want the investigation stopped. t...

Spent his early career as a courtroom prosecutor. he understood a crime scene. he wanted to stand in that window and see whether this was a shot that a marksman could make. while he was there, warren felt he should talk to ruby. there were all these suggests ruby had killed oswald to silence him. so he wanted to hear from ruby himself. >> the warren commission realized they were going to have to invest a lot more time than was anticipated. this may be a two to three-month operation to the concep...

Interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence and bringing it back to the commission. >> there were questions, how would they deal with the different stories about shooters from the grassy nole and different directions. >> they took 395 depositions and 94 witnesses appeared before the commission. >> lyndon johnson wants the report out so it doesnt interfere with the election in november. >> warren left for dallas. he spent his early career a courtroom prosecutor. he wanted to sit in the lyndon a...