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[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by ocjack

Sadly, we will probably never really know for sure.

After all these years, I'm beginning to think you're right. But to me, there are only two possibilities: Either you believe the million-to-one possibility that Jack Ruby, who never did anything in his life but work for the Mob, and about whom nobody ever produced a single shred of evidence of the slightest interest in national affairs or of any affection whatsoever for the Kennedys, was so moved to silence the only person who could explain why the assassination happened, or you believe that Jack Ruby was ordered to assassinate Oswald to keep him from spilling the beans on a conspiracy. If the latter is true, who would have been in a position to force Ruby to do that, who did he take orders from? And did that person or organization have the motivation to put out such an order? The Mob had so many different reasons to kill JFK, the answer would be simple if he was a more ordinary person. And they kill people all the time, that's what they do, and they're very good at it. But to try to kill a president? That's what people can't get their heads around. But they were desperate in 1963, fighting for their existence at that point, and as Carlos Marcello explained to an undercover FBI informant when asked why they just didn't eliminate Bobby: "If you cut off the tail of a snake, it can still bite you. But if you cut off the head, it's dead." So they had the means, the motivation, and somehow came up with the opportunity. I firmly believe this, they pulled off the Mob Hit Of All Time. Keep showing me all the evidence of what a lone nutjob Oswald was, and I'll keep reminding you that that's the poster boy for someone they could pick up to involve in the assassination, then arrange for him to get caught and take the blame for it. Oswald was never supposed to live out the day of November 22, but he did, so they had to take the desperate chance of having Ruby stalk him all weekend in the police station until he could create the opportunity to silence him once and for all. There is some fascinating film footage of Ruby, not long before he died in 1966, basically confessing to being part of a much larger effort.