15-01-2013, 09:07 PM
Oswald and Ruby Phone Records RFK, Jr. Got It Right
By William E. Kelly, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. set off a firestorm of media andcritical reaction after being interviewed in a public program at the WinspearOpera House in Dallas bysaying that neither he nor his father believed that a "lone-gunman" killedPresident Kennedy.
Interviewed by Charlie Rose, Kennedy was also quoted assaying, "…When they examined Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald's phonerecords,…they saw…an inventory of the Mafia leaders that they had beeninvestigating…"
A former aide to Robert F. Kennedy, Paul Schrade, who waswounded in the same barrage of bullets that killed RFK, asked if the tape willbe aired or a transcript of it released and they said they are waiting forpermission from Kennedy and Charlie Rose. In the meantime, we are left with thequotes attributed to those who were there in the audience. Rodger Jones, aneditorial writer for the Dallas News, in an apparent attempt to put thecomplete interview in context, wrote:
"RFK Jr.'s assassination narrative began with an anecdoteabout his dad seeing New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's photo on a newsstand andasking an aide if there was anything to Garrison's theories about the CIA, Cuba andMafia in his brother's killing. RFK Jr. said his dad was told that Garrison wason to something, but the specifics of Garrison's investigation went on thewrong track, but he thought there was a link …' Kennedy said his dad putinvestigators on it. When they examined Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald's phonerecords,… they saw what was essentially an inventory of the Mafia leaders thatthey had been investigating for the past two years at the Justice Department."
In response Jean Davison, and others, including Gary Mackand John McAdams, have questioned Kennedy's facts, evidence and reasoning.While Mack said he believes that Betsy Lewis' condescending version of theOpera House event is better (See: Dallas Observer, Jan. 12; "Not Even CharlieRose Could Rein in RFK, Jr. in Dallas Last Night.") and McAdams calls Kennedy a"crackpot" for his silly beliefs on other subjects, Davison gives a morereasoned response. As the author of the book "Oswald's Game," whichattempts to portray Oswald as the lone assassin, she is known as a meticulousresearcher and accurate writer, but one who comes to an unpopular and wrongconclusion concerning Oswald's singular guilt.
Davison correctly notes: "This stood out to me: ...phonerecords of Oswald ... 'were like an inventory' of mafia leaders...' Ofcourse,…Oswald had no phone records since he never had a phone. Anyone canbelieve in a conspiracy, but where is the evidence? If Robert Kennedy hadinvestigators do research into the assassination,' are Ruby's phone records (orOswald's nonexistent ones) really the best they could come up with?...beliefisn't evidence, is it?"
Belief isn't evidence, but telephone records are evidence,hard evidence that can be introduced in a court of law, and the fact that thereare no telephone records of the alleged assassin of the President certainlysupports the contention that the Warren Commission investigation was, inKennedy's words, "a shoddy piece of craftsmanship."
While the phone records aren't the best evidence ofconspiracy and Oswald may not have had his own telephone, he certainly did maketelephone calls, including suspicious calls worthy of further examination, andthere is substantial documentation to support this.
And we do have Jack Ruby's extensive telephone records thatclearly show in the weeks leading up to the assassination he had telephoneconversations with a number of mobsters who were being actively investigated byRobert F. Kennedy's Justice Department...
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By William E. Kelly, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. set off a firestorm of media andcritical reaction after being interviewed in a public program at the WinspearOpera House in Dallas bysaying that neither he nor his father believed that a "lone-gunman" killedPresident Kennedy.
Interviewed by Charlie Rose, Kennedy was also quoted assaying, "…When they examined Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald's phonerecords,…they saw…an inventory of the Mafia leaders that they had beeninvestigating…"
A former aide to Robert F. Kennedy, Paul Schrade, who waswounded in the same barrage of bullets that killed RFK, asked if the tape willbe aired or a transcript of it released and they said they are waiting forpermission from Kennedy and Charlie Rose. In the meantime, we are left with thequotes attributed to those who were there in the audience. Rodger Jones, aneditorial writer for the Dallas News, in an apparent attempt to put thecomplete interview in context, wrote:
"RFK Jr.'s assassination narrative began with an anecdoteabout his dad seeing New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's photo on a newsstand andasking an aide if there was anything to Garrison's theories about the CIA, Cuba andMafia in his brother's killing. RFK Jr. said his dad was told that Garrison wason to something, but the specifics of Garrison's investigation went on thewrong track, but he thought there was a link …' Kennedy said his dad putinvestigators on it. When they examined Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald's phonerecords,… they saw what was essentially an inventory of the Mafia leaders thatthey had been investigating for the past two years at the Justice Department."
In response Jean Davison, and others, including Gary Mackand John McAdams, have questioned Kennedy's facts, evidence and reasoning.While Mack said he believes that Betsy Lewis' condescending version of theOpera House event is better (See: Dallas Observer, Jan. 12; "Not Even CharlieRose Could Rein in RFK, Jr. in Dallas Last Night.") and McAdams calls Kennedy a"crackpot" for his silly beliefs on other subjects, Davison gives a morereasoned response. As the author of the book "Oswald's Game," whichattempts to portray Oswald as the lone assassin, she is known as a meticulousresearcher and accurate writer, but one who comes to an unpopular and wrongconclusion concerning Oswald's singular guilt.
Davison correctly notes: "This stood out to me: ...phonerecords of Oswald ... 'were like an inventory' of mafia leaders...' Ofcourse,…Oswald had no phone records since he never had a phone. Anyone canbelieve in a conspiracy, but where is the evidence? If Robert Kennedy hadinvestigators do research into the assassination,' are Ruby's phone records (orOswald's nonexistent ones) really the best they could come up with?...beliefisn't evidence, is it?"
Belief isn't evidence, but telephone records are evidence,hard evidence that can be introduced in a court of law, and the fact that thereare no telephone records of the alleged assassin of the President certainlysupports the contention that the Warren Commission investigation was, inKennedy's words, "a shoddy piece of craftsmanship."
While the phone records aren't the best evidence ofconspiracy and Oswald may not have had his own telephone, he certainly did maketelephone calls, including suspicious calls worthy of further examination, andthere is substantial documentation to support this.
And we do have Jack Ruby's extensive telephone records thatclearly show in the weeks leading up to the assassination he had telephoneconversations with a number of mobsters who were being actively investigated byRobert F. Kennedy's Justice Department...
Continued at:
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