Today in History: In 1963, Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
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Material in here about the cia's role in the jfk story. they're trying to keep that out of public view. >> tom, let me ask you about another interesting finding that we found in these documents as you were going through. tell us about this apparent death threat called -- that was called in prior to oswald's murder. >> this is the first time we've ever had a record that says there was a direct call to the fbi. this was from j. edgar hoover saying last night we received a call in our dallas office from a man talking in a calm voice saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill oswald. ...
To him. >> we'll never know what oswald was going to say. was he just a lone nut case? >> a trial might have answered questions of conspiracy, but with oswald dead, investigators focused on ruby. >> how was he able to get that close to the most wanted man in the world. >> because all the cops in dallas liked him because he gave them free stuff including hookers. >> the actions by ruby in shootishoot ing oswald were not spontaneous in that he probably had assistance. >> he examined ruby's activities and unusual access to police headquarters. >> i certainly believe that officer dean who was in c...
>> j. edgar hoover said back in '69 that they had had regular contact with jack ruby. >> david kaiser is a historian and author of "the road to dallas." >> he couldn't make the payoff. he was looking for help wherever he could get it. >> jack ruby made calls to individuals associated with organized crime. >> the report about ruby's sister, ruby got a phone call right at this time and went in the other room and threw up. maybe he got a phone call that said, ruby, we need you to do something for us. >> but mark lane insists the cia had the means and the motive to kill kennedy. >> the cia decided...
And ruby knew the head of the mafia in dallas. >> oswald had grown up in new orleans. his uncle, dutch moraff. >> that's the reason the mafia case is probably the stronger of any of them. >> next, how a 3-d animation along with the