15-01-2013, 09:08 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 and critical reaction after being interviewed in a public program at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas by saying that neither he nor his father believed that a "lone-gunman" killed President Kennedy.
Interviewed by Charlie Rose, Kennedy was also quoted as saying, "…When they examined Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald's phone records,…they saw…an inventory of the Mafia leaders that they had been investigating…"
A former aide to Robert F. Kennedy, Paul Schrade, who was wounded in the same barrage of bullets that killed RFK, asked if the tape will be aired or a transcript of it released and they said they are waiting for permission from Kennedy and Charlie Rose. In the meantime, we are left with the quotes attributed to those who were there in the audience. Rodger Jones, an editorial writer for the Dallas News, in an apparent attempt to put the complete interview in context, wrote:
"RFK Jr.'s assassination narrative began with an anecdote about his dad seeing New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's photo on a news stand and asking an aide if there was anything to Garrison's theories about the CIA, Cuba and Mafia in his brother's killing. RFK Jr. said his dad was told that Garrison was on to something, but the specifics of Garrison's investigation went on the wrong track, but he thought there was a link …' Kennedy said his dad put investigators on it. When they examined Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald's phone records,… they saw what was essentially an inventory of the Mafia leaders that they had been investigating for the past two years at the Justice Department."
In response Jean Davison, and others, including Gary Mack and John McAdams, have questioned Kennedy's facts, evidence and reasoning. While Mack said he believes that Betsy Lewis' condescending version of the Opera House event is better (See: Dallas Observer, Jan. 12; "Not Even Charlie Rose 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 more reasoned response. As the author of the book "Oswald's Game," which attempts to portray Oswald as the lone assassin, she is known as a meticulous researcher and accurate writer, but one who comes to an unpopular and wrong conclusion concerning Oswald's singular guilt.
Davison correctly notes: "This stood out to me: ...phone records of Oswald ... 'were like an inventory' of mafia leaders...' Of course,…Oswald had no phone records since he never had a phone. Anyone can believe in a conspiracy, but where is the evidence? If Robert Kennedy had investigators do research into the assassination,' are Ruby's phone records (or Oswald's nonexistent ones) really the best they could come up with?...belief isn'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 there are no telephone records of the alleged assassin of the President certainly supports the contention that the Warren Commission investigation was, in Kennedy'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 that clearly show in the weeks leading up to the assassination he had telephone conversations with a number of mobsters who were being actively investigated by Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department....
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JFKcountercoup: 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 and critical reaction after being interviewed in a public program at the Winspear Opera House in Dallas by saying that neither he nor his father believed that a "lone-gunman" killed President Kennedy.
Interviewed by Charlie Rose, Kennedy was also quoted as saying, "…When they examined Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald's phone records,…they saw…an inventory of the Mafia leaders that they had been investigating…"
A former aide to Robert F. Kennedy, Paul Schrade, who was wounded in the same barrage of bullets that killed RFK, asked if the tape will be aired or a transcript of it released and they said they are waiting for permission from Kennedy and Charlie Rose. In the meantime, we are left with the quotes attributed to those who were there in the audience. Rodger Jones, an editorial writer for the Dallas News, in an apparent attempt to put the complete interview in context, wrote:
"RFK Jr.'s assassination narrative began with an anecdote about his dad seeing New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's photo on a news stand and asking an aide if there was anything to Garrison's theories about the CIA, Cuba and Mafia in his brother's killing. RFK Jr. said his dad was told that Garrison was on to something, but the specifics of Garrison's investigation went on the wrong track, but he thought there was a link …' Kennedy said his dad put investigators on it. When they examined Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald's phone records,… they saw what was essentially an inventory of the Mafia leaders that they had been investigating for the past two years at the Justice Department."
In response Jean Davison, and others, including Gary Mack and John McAdams, have questioned Kennedy's facts, evidence and reasoning. While Mack said he believes that Betsy Lewis' condescending version of the Opera House event is better (See: Dallas Observer, Jan. 12; "Not Even Charlie Rose 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 more reasoned response. As the author of the book "Oswald's Game," which attempts to portray Oswald as the lone assassin, she is known as a meticulous researcher and accurate writer, but one who comes to an unpopular and wrong conclusion concerning Oswald's singular guilt.
Davison correctly notes: "This stood out to me: ...phone records of Oswald ... 'were like an inventory' of mafia leaders...' Of course,…Oswald had no phone records since he never had a phone. Anyone can believe in a conspiracy, but where is the evidence? If Robert Kennedy had investigators do research into the assassination,' are Ruby's phone records (or Oswald's nonexistent ones) really the best they could come up with?...belief isn'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 there are no telephone records of the alleged assassin of the President certainly supports the contention that the Warren Commission investigation was, in Kennedy'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 that clearly show in the weeks leading up to the assassination he had telephone conversations with a number of mobsters who were being actively investigated by Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department....
Continued at:
JFKcountercoup: Oswald and Ruby Phone Records RFK, Jr. Got It Right