The Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald by Johnson Scott P.;

Author:Johnson, Scott P.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Silencing of Lee Harvey Oswald

The murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby occurred within forty-eight hours of the assassination in the presence of over forty law enforcement officers in the basement of the Dallas Police Department and convinced a majority of people that the Kennedy assassination was the result of a conspiracy and the elimination of Oswald was part of the cover-up. Public opinion polls at the time showed that two-thirds of the American public believed that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy. Jack Ruby had connections with organized crime and telephone records indicated several calls between Ruby and organized crime figures in the months leading up to the assassination of Kennedy and the murder of Oswald. Ruby allegedly was in contact with the top aides of Carlos Marcello, the Mafia leader in New Orleans, and Santos Traficante, the organized crime leader in Miami as well as Teamsters president, Jimmy Hoffa. Ruby also may have been employed at one time by the CIA and/or FBI as an informant. Ruby allegedly took mysterious trips to Cuba in the late 1950s possibly to gather information for the U.S. government or to visit Traficante, who was being held in prison by Castro in Havana.[84] It was commonplace for intelligence agencies at the national level and/or organized crime figures to exert control over local law enforcement in the 1960s and, therefore, it would have been fairly easy for some member of the Dallas police force to provide Ruby with access to the basement of the police department where Oswald was scheduled to be transferred from the city jail to the county jail.[85] It was imperative that Oswald be eliminated because he was being transferred from the city jail to the county jail and outside the jurisdiction of the Dallas city police where organized crime and/or a rogue element of an intelligence agency might lose access to Oswald. Of course, it also would have been necessary to eliminate Oswald before he began to talk specifically about who might have framed him and what forces were behind the assassination.

David Ferrie, an individual with a wide array of contacts within the intelligence community and organized crime, allegedly was ordered by Carlos Marcello to have Ruby murder Oswald. As noted above, Marcello was the leader of the organized crime syndicate in New Orleans and employed Oswald’s uncle, Charles “Dutz” Murret. Oswald’s mother also associated with underworld figures connected to the Marcello organization. During the spring and summer of 1963, when Oswald was living with and working for his uncle in New Orleans, it has been speculated that Marcello discovered the perfect patsy to take the fall for the assassination. According to the testimony of FBI informants, Marcello had told associates in early 1963 that a plot to assassinate Kennedy was in development and the Mafia boss was looking for a “nut” to frame for the “job.” Interestingly, one FBI informant, known only as SV T-1, witnessed a person resembling Oswald receive a “wad of money” at the Town & Country Restaurant in New Orleans in the spring of 1963.

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