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Police station during the past two days talking with news men and distributing his card. >> jack ruby was a police and media groupie. ruby thought he was our friend. >> so im in this very same room friday night when we had the defendant up here. if some of you will recall, he asked a question from out here. he was standing right back here and i didnt know whoa was. i thought he was a member of the press. he told me as we walked out of here that he is a night club operator. >> rubys act was that ...

>> they argue that a bullet would have had to make a right turn and then a left turn in mid air. the reality is that connally was not seated directly in front of kennedy. >> if you figure out the line where the men sat and if you look down as i did and the others did who conducted the on site test and had the automobile placed in the position it is perfectly possible i submit to you that the bullet from president kennedys throat would have to strike either the automobile which it did not or some...

Deliberated two hours and 25 minutes. just what do you think of this verdict? i believe jack ruby was a paid killer to close the mouth of my s son, lee harvey oswald. >> the question whether jack ruby knew lee harvey oswald before or was in cahoots to kill him was 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 the mob could ever g...

>> we know at 11:20, three minutes later, a block away, jack ruby killed lee harvey oswald. the evidence showed that he heads down there anywhere from five to 15 seconds -- five to 15 seconds. if this is a hired assassin, who is supposed to have some advanced information, he is the worlds best timer. >> what type of man is he? >> jack is a very emotional type person and as i was saying a while ago, hes the type man would probably give you the shirt off his back one moment and turn around and do ...

Coincidental. the assassin is assassinated at the police station. what in the hell is going on? >> just learned from city hall from a very authoritative source that police are working on the assumption that there indeed is a connection between jack ruby and lee oswald, and that in some manner of speaking, oswalds murder was to shut him up. >> captain fritz just told me that ruby has said that he did it, that it was his gun, and that he had built up a tremendous grievance over the death of the pr...

Its report would be, if not the final word, the semifinal word, in that the commissions job would be to read it and then essentially endorse the findings of the report. >> the members of the warren commission, earl warren, john sherman cooper, jegerry ford, he boggs, richard russell, and john j. mccloy, realized at their initial meeting that they had to do an independent investigation. they didnt want to be a stamp for the fbi or the secret service. >> there are three issues that the commission ...

He is known locally. >> immediately after the ambulance left, somehow i begun to suspect that maybe the shooter was someone who was known to the police. >> do you know this subject? do you know him? have you seen him before? >> yes, i do. >> is he from dallas? >> yes. >> he is? >> i couldnt tell you. >> do you know what kind of business he happens to be in? >> bob, i wouldnt want to say. >> right. >> dallas city hall is normally a public building, but today it was really under armed guard. >> we...

>> no matter how illustrious the members were, we were not going to be reassured by a commission. >> were already having a little disagreement here while the commercials were on. >> what are you saying, david? >> well, i think i disagree almost totally with mark lane on several counts. i dont know where to begin. >> let me show you some just in case we have a chance. that is a picture of jack ruby. this was taken five minutes after the assassination from the texas school book depository building...

J. mccloy realized at their initial meet theg had to do an independent investigation. they didnt want to be a stamp for the fbi or the secret service. >> there are three issues the commission had to grapple with. did oswald commit the physical act of the murder and if he did, did he have forces behind him, and then of course whats rubys involvement in this? >> you had various branches of the investigation traveling, interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, bringing it back to the commission....

Editorials around the country said its one of the darkest chapters in americas jurisprudence history. its just a crime. >> from what i saw and heard, hi, didnt think he had proven clay shaws guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. >> i would have voted not guilty for clay shaw. >> i think that garrison feels that the end justifies the means. he felt that if he could bring to the american people what he considered the truth of their president, any means whatsoever, it was to be used. it didnt matter who...