[…] to Brussel, 300 is more like it. About Gemstone author Roberts there are merely rumours: that he died in 1977, of a brain tumour, claiming, like Jack Ruby, that he had been seeded with cancer cells; (2) that he worked for OSS during the war; (3) that he had been a student at the […]
[…] secret FBI undercover sting operation named CAMTEX. Exposed here for the first time, CAMTEX also yielded Marcello’s admission that he’d met Lee Harvey Oswald and set Jack Ruby up in business in Dallas. The operation also generated hundreds of hours of heretofore secret prison audio tapes of Marcello discussing his crimes, recorded using the […]
[…] so little about Texas politics and organised crime in the period. For example, it is still not possible to say for certain how significant a figure Jack Ruby was in organised crime. There is little information on the relationship between the mob, law enforcement and local politicians in Texas. There are just accounts which […]
[…] provided for a backstop killer in near certainty, hotel security guard Thane Cesar () to either shoot Kennedy or terminate Sirhan himself a la Jack Ruby. If the killing of Kennedy was, in many ways, a stroke of luck for RFK’s opponents, their very range would ensure the cover-up went swiftly and […]
[PDF file]: […] of pure disinformation that he was deliberately feeding to Time Inc., via the receptive Clare Boothe Luce. As for the ‘piece of paper’ that proved Oswald and Ruby knew each other, absolutely no-one else has ever mentioned seeing this explosive document, let In English, the ‘Student Revolutionary Directorate’. The DRE had been pro-revolution during […]
[PDF file]: […] My view of it changes. About 20 years ago I would have said that the Mafia probably did it: how else to explain the role of Jack Ruby? But though there have been a number of reports of mafiosi claiming to have done it, success has a thousand fathers and there is no actual […]
[…] My view of it changes. About 20 years ago I would have said that the Mafia probably did it: how else to explain the role of Jack Ruby? But though there have been a number of reports of mafiosi claiming to have done it, success has a thousand fathers and there is no actual […]
[PDF file]: […] he had met with his brother Malcolm Liggett in suspicious circumstances following the assassination. In particular, the authenticity of a photograph allegedly showing Malcolm Liggett with Jack Ruby was strongly contested. The History Channel settled out of court for an undisclosed sum in March 2004. This lawsuit does not appear to alter the rest […]
[PDF file]: […] how significant organised crime funds were to LBJ’s political rise, or to the Johnson-supporting faction of the Texas Democrats, has not been documented. He does link Jack Ruby to the Dallas Civello gang, but there is nothing in this book linking the shooting of JFK to Civello/Marcello/Mondolini. North would have us conclude that this […]
[PDF file]: […] More precisely, West was working on the ‘induction of abnormal states’. Jolyon West was the shrink assigned by the Warren Commission in 1965 to psychiatrically examine Jack Ruby, the mobster who slew Lee Harvey Oswald. West examined Ruby alone in his prison cell and emerged to report that had suffered an ‘acute psychotic break’. […]
