[…] up his apologia for Hoover and the Feds. Nonetheless, DeLoach admits some stains and blemishes on J. Edgar and doesn’t gloss over them. Chapters on JFK, Jack Ruby, Martin Luther King, Cointelpro, and ‘The Gay Director?’ (special criticism reserved here for Tony Summers). Worth reading for its insights into Bureau procedure and Bureau-think. DFW […]
[…] a Mexican Government agency. Richard Cain at the time was also part of that Dave Yaras-Lennie Patrick-Sam Giancana element of the Chicago mob with demonstrable links to Ruby in 1963, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations speculated that Cain may have been part of the 1960-61 CIA-Mafia plots against Castro. Unmistakably Staff D, […]
[…] of gay men in and around the assassination — Shaw, David Ferrie, J. Edgar Hoover — is rarely commented on. To this list I would add Jack Ruby, who never married, lived with young men, owned a strip club yet never apparently showed any interest in the young women he employed, and appeared to […]
[…] in excess of 1.4 million words, which easily dwarfs the Warren Report itself. Bugliosi is going to rescue the ‘lone mad nut’ thesis, the Magic Bullet, Jack Ruby as ‘accidental slayer’ and all the rest of the Warren Commission gospel from, to borrow a phrase of H. L. Mencken’s, the ‘Sheol of shattered illusions.’ […]
[…] Memphis mafia and the cops. But the truth is what the truth is. It gets harder to swallow. Pepper has found apparent links to Dallas and Jack Ruby! After the assassination a young and FBI agent went to inspect a car, a white Mustang, which they thought might have been involved in the assassination. […]
[…] his plans to have NASA put men on the moon.’ (Square brackets and words within them in the original.) After the assassination of JFK, Kilgallen visited Jack Ruby and, according to the late Penn Jones, shortly before her death in 1965 from an apparent overdose of barbiturates and alcohol, she claimed that she was […]
[…] assassination. DiEugenio has done his homework and argues convincingly enough that Oswald and Shaw were part of a network which drew together Guy Banister, David Ferrie, Jack Ruby, anti-Castro forces (mainly Cuban emigres and the Mafia) and the CIA. The mystery of Oswald Of course the existence of such a network does not prove […]
Publications The Kennedys: An American Drama Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Pan Books, London 1985) JFK:The Presidency of John F. Kennedy Herbert S. Parmet (Penguin Books, London 1984) Kennedy assassination buffs – and I confess to being one in a very small way – can’t resist books about the Kennedys even when they suspect there […]
[…] War, the Weathermen, bombings at home; etc. etc. – and he disappeared from view. Looking back on it there were two obvious focuses for the assassination research, Ruby and Oswald; and most of the effort went on Oswald. Not only was there was little knowledge of Texas among the research community, the climate of […]
[…] key figure in covering up Chiang Kai-sheck’s involvement in the heroin traffic from Asia to the US, publicly blaming the Communist Chinese instead. (He also recruited Jack Ruby as an informant in Chicago in the late forties before Ruby moved to Dallas.) Kefauver’s third mistake, his key political mistake, was to get up the […]
