The two Rubys

[R.K. Locke]

I'm trying to make the point that it is possible that Johnson recommended Ruby to Nixon, and that they may well have known each other within that timeframe. It isn't much of a stretch when you consider that:

Billy Byars, Clint Murchinson, Sid Richardson and HL Hunt, along with many others, frequented the Top Of The Hill Terrance, a gambling club owned and run by Benny Binion. The club was managed by top mobster Lewis McWillie from 1948 to 1958.

Binion was run out of Dallas in 1946 after the killing of James Ragen by Ruby's good friend, Dave Yaras:

http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKyarras.htm

Also...

Murchison, along with Sid Richardson and Haroldson L. Hunt, became major supporters of Lyndon B. Johnson in order to maintain the oil depletion allowance. According to Robert Bryce: "Johnson's 1948 race was reportedly the most expensive political campaign ever wages in Texas. The money flowed to Johnson like an inexhaustible river. By befriending Richardson, Murchison, Hunt, and other oilmen like Amon Carter of Fort Worth, Wesley West of Austin, and R. J. Parten of Houston, Johnson assured himself of nearly unlimited funding."

So you only have two degrees of separation (at most) between Ruby and Johnson in this timeframe.

Finally, there is this footnote in Peter Dale Scott's Deep Politics:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zWew...by&f=false