06-08-2014, 09:59 PM
Albert Doyle Wrote:Tracy Riddle Wrote:Does it really sound believable that an assassination team would park the truck right there on Elm in full view of everyone?
What would they have to fear? The assassination was completely covered, right down to the Dallas cops. When they had trouble with a witness who saw the whole thing like Bowers first they cut his finger off, then they murdered him.
Why would they run two Oswalds by Texas Theater ticket-taker Julia Postal? Because they knew they could count on Texas-style damage control to take care of such problems.
Heck, if you think about it Ruby was right wide in the open with his Carousel Club relationship with the cops. It didn't stop them from getting him to kill Oswald.
The human mind likes to seek rational order in order to make sense of things. However with what we already know about the assassination we are well through the looking glass on normal expectations.
Well, if we follow that logic, they could have had the shooters just stand out on the sidewalk on Elm and open fire in front of everyone. The conspirators were not magicians with supernatural powers. They had to take some basic precautions. Was it really that hard to drive the truck around to the back parking lot behind the fence? Was there something to be gained by having the shooter walk up the grass in full view of everyone? No.
No, I think Mercer just saw a truck that had pulled over to the curb for some reason, and the driver was a heavy-set, balding middle-age guy who looked something like Jack Ruby. You know how many guys look like that? Remember the younger "Jack Ruby" photographed in front of the TSBD after the assassination - it's clearly not him, but from one angle it appears to be.
And why would Ruby be needed to drive this truck? The conspiracy was so small that Ruby had to be everywhere that day doing everything? These are the kinds of things that don't pass the 'smell test'; we can't get carried away by our own imaginations.