On Mar 1, 9:45=C2=A0pm, Anthony Marsh <anthony_ma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Raymond wrote:
> > On Mar 1, 4:27=EF=BF=BDam, Raymond <Bluerhy...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Ruby and the Ramp
>
> >> PROBE
> >> Index Vol. 6 No. 3 January-February, 1999
>
> >> R. F. Gallagher presents a compelling case based on a microscopic
> >> examinination of the evidence that Ruby entered the basement to shoot
> >> Oswald with assistance from the Dallas Police.
>
> >> Ruby enetred the Dallas Police Station through a door, in the alley,
> >> next to the Western Ubion Office that was either left open or opened
> >> by a policeman friend of Jack Ruby
>
> >> Raymond Gallagher explores the mystery of how Jack Ruby made it so
> >> easily and conveniently into the basement of the Dallas jail with
such
> >> exquisite timing. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
>
> >> CTKA/Probe Back Issues Index
>
> >> CTKA formerly published Probe Magazine. Most of the articles on this
> >> site ... Copies of these back issues can be ordered from The Last
> >> Hurrah Bookstore This article , by Gallagher, is worth the effort.
>
> >> From the Chairman's Desk
>
> >>http://www.ctka.net/fullarticles.html
>
> > Ruby and the Ramp
>
> > The Warren Commission claims that Ruby entered the basement of the
> > Dallas Police Station via the Main Street ramp. He did not. He entered
> > the building through a side door that is not less than fifty feet from
> > the door of
> > the Western Union building It is still there.
>
> Then why would it take Jack Ruby 5 minutes to walk 50 feet?
>
>
>
> > Why would Jack say that he entered the basement of the jail via the
> > ramp if he entered the building by another entrance? What difference
> > would it make? Everyone knows that he was in the basement and shot
> > Oswald.
>
> > There is no genuine evidence, other than Jack's own story, that he
> > entered via the ramp. If there is, I sure would like to see it. Even
> > the Warren Wizards doubted the tall tale. After claiming that Ruby
> > entered the basement by way of the ramp, the Report adds:
>
> > Although the sum of the available evidence tends to support Ruby's
> > claim that he entered the Main Street ramp, there is other evidence
> > not consistent with Ruby's story. If Ruby entered by any other means,
> > he would have had to pass through the Police and Courts Building, and
> > then secondly through one of the five doors into the basement, all of
> > which, according to the testimony of police officers were secured .
>
> > The testimony was not completely positive about one of the doors.
> > (Report, pp. 221-222)
>
> > Both the police and the Commission were concerned about the one door.
> > But they were careful not to investigate the issue to a positive
> > conclusion because it would almost surely implicate one or more
> > members of the Dallas police force.
>
> > The door in question was near the passenger elevator that opens into
> > the Municipal Building.
>
> > "Despite the thoroughness with which the search was conducted, there
> > still existed one and perhaps two weak points in controlling access to
> > the garage. Testimony did not resolve positively whether or not the
> > stairway door near the public elevators was locked both from the
> > inside and outside as was necessary to secure it effectively. "
> > (Report. p. 212)
>
> > In his book Conspiracy, Anthony Summers deals with this particular
> > door:
>
> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0"In 1979, the Assassination Committee rejected the old
stor=
y that
> > Ruby got in down the ramp from the street. Following its own research
> > on the spot, it plumped instead for a brand-new hypothesis. The
> > Committee found that Ruby could have got into the basement by
> > slipping
> > down an alleyway at the side of the police station. In the middle of
> > the alley is a door opening onto the ground floor of the building
> > which houses the police station, and from there Ruby could have
> > reached the basement. It was a far less conspicuous means of entry
> > than the ramp route and therefore a better choice for a premeditated
> > approach. The Committee had to consider whether, if he indeed took
> > this route. Ruby would have been stopped by a locked internal door
> > leading to the basement. On this point, it once again encountered the
> > ubiquitous voice of Sergeant (Patrick) Dean. It turned out that he had
> > vascillated in his statements as to whether the door could be opened
> > from the outside. On one occasion he had not answered the question and
> > then said he had been assured by the maintenance man that the door was
> > secure from both sides. Two maintenance men and a porter said the
> > opposite. They asserted it could be opened without using a key, from
> > the direction Ruby would have entered." ( p. 469, 1991 edition)
>
> > The Warren Report provides us with a diagram of the basement of the
> > Dallas Police Building (CE 2179), which shows the three elevators
> > opening into the garage, and the steps, by the elevators that Ruby
> > would have used to gain entrance to the basement. They do not however
> > provide a floor plan of the main floor that would show the alleyway
> > door that Jack surely used to enter the building.
>
> > COMM EX 2179
>
>http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh24/html/WH_Vol24_0...
>
> > The truth about the door can be seen by anyone who visits the corner
> > of Pearl and Main streets, in Dallas. Standing in front of the former
> > Western Union Office Building, the door to the Municipal Building can
> > be seen . It is less than a child's stone throw away from the door to
> > the Western Union. Additonally, there are over 20 windows on the side
> > of the Municipal Building that could have been used to signal Jack
> > that the transfer was in progress.
>
> > I wrote an article in PROBE. March-April, 1999 titled Ruby and the
> > Ramp. I included pictures of the scene showing the door to the side
> > of
> > the police building and the front of the Western Union Office.
> > Perhaps
> > Probe could provide a copy of the article.
>
> > From the Chairman's Desk at PROBE Magazine:
>
> > "Raymond Galllagher explores the mystery of how Jack Ruby made it so
> > easily and conveniently into the basement of the Dallas jail with
> > such
> > exquisite timing. As they say, a picture is worth a rhousand words."
>
> > A =C2=A0book, No More Silence, written by Larry A . Sneed, provides
more=
> > information on the subject. I will leave that to interested people to
> > read , but it is convincing evidence that Ruby entered by way of the
> > door I described.
>
> > The Sneed witnesses include police officers, deputy sheriffs, and
> > government officials.
>
> > Before anyone begins to write negative posts about the contents of
> > this effort, make sure that you have exhausted your own research. Few
> > still believe that Jack entered via the ramp.
>
> > ONE MORE TIME
>
> > Hopefully, I will use witness testimony to support the proposition
> > that Jack Ruby did not enter the basement of the police building by
> > way of the Main Street ramp. At least three of the police officers
> > told Larry Sneed, author of No More Silence, that Ruby undoubtedly
> > entered the basement via the alleyway doors that ran north and south
> > alongside the Western Union office.
>
> > Officer Roy Vaughn, who was assigned to guard the top of the Main
> > Street ramp told Sneed: "There was a stairway that went from the first
> > floor down to the basement out of the Municipal Building." Vaughn
> > said , " Very easily somebody could have gone to the back door, which
> > is still there today, opened the door, let somebody in, walked
> > straight and come right into the basement. It wouldn't have been a
> > problem."
>
> > The officer explained that, in 1963, there were two possibilities to
> > enter the basement. There was a business college and a cafe NEXT to
> > the Western Union. They have since been torn down, ...
>
> > Is it important how Ruby entered the police building to shoot Oswald?
> > Maybe not. On the other hand, why would Jack say he went down the
> > ramp? If he entered the building from some other entrance, he could
> > have admitted it. The result was the same-he was able to accomplish
> > his objective. However, if he was in touch with someone from the
> > police department, who was providing him with information about the
> > transfer and aided him in getting into the basement, then there was a
> > reason to lie. Ruby, a long time friend of many members of the
> > department, would not want to reveal the truth about their
> > assistance.
>
> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0"The rulers of the state are the only ones that
shou=
ld have the
> > priviledge of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to
> > lie for the good of the state."
>
> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0---- =C2=A0Plato: The Republic
>
> > Jack Ruby was interviewed in the Dallas County Jail on Dec. 21, 1963
> > by FBI SA Hall and Clements regarding his Sunday morning trip to the
> > Western Union office, and his alleged ramp entrance to the basement
> > of
> > the Police Department building. Jack furnished the following
> > information:
>
> > =C2=A0After sending the telegram, he left the Western Union officeand
> > walked west on the same side of the street, toward the City Hall
> > located on the next corner. Before he reached the Police Department
> > building, he noticed a police officer standing at the entrance to the
> > ramp going into the basement from Main Street, but he did not know the
> > police officer. Just before he reached that point, a police car came
> > out of the basement, and he recognized the driver of the police car as
> > Lieut. PIERCE. He explained he had known Lt. PIERCE for twelve years.
>
> > PIERCE did not look toward him or speak to him and Ruby did not speak
> > to Lt. PIERCE. Ruby could not recall seeing anyone in the police car
> > with Lt. PIERCE in either the front or back seat of the police car.
>
> > As the police car driven by Lt. PIERCE came out of the basement ramp,
> > the officer on duty at the entrance stepped back and walked toward
> > the
> > curb next to the street, with his back toward RUBY. As the police car
> > got even with this officer, the officer stooped down and looked
> > inside
> > the car. At about this time, RUBY had reached the entrance to the Main
> > Street ramp, and he took in the movement of
>
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Why don't you go to Dallas and try both ways to get to where Ruby was
when he shot LHO. You will see that he could have entered the area
through the door very close to the door of the Western Union... gone
down the steps and entered the spot where he killed the most important
witness to "Who Put Jack In The Box" (all in the same time that was
reported by the Commission Wizards.) The number of the steps necessary
to get there are about the same, TRY IT.
Stroking the incompetence of the Dallas Police Department.and the
testimony of Brother Napoleon Daniels
It was Ruby's relationships with unsavoury mob-linked characters
throughout his life that led to a great deal of speculation that he
was controlled by organized crime. The Warren Commission's
investigation into his background failed to dispel this notion because
the commission =E2=80=93 which basically relied on hundreds of FBI
interview=
s
of Ruby's known associates =E2=80=93 did not fully investigate his alleged
Mafia connections and his trips to Cuba.
NO ONE SAW JACK MOVING DOWN THE RAMP. ?
Some conspiracists have alleged that the Dallas police allowed Ruby to
enter the Dallas police basement through an unlocked door instead of
entering by a ramp. However, they ignore an important (???? ) witness
who actually saw Ruby descend the ramp. The witness was an EX -Dallas
police officer named Napoleon Daniels. Daniels, a college educated
token African-American had been a member of the segregated Dallas
police force who had left prior to the assassination. Daniels had
allegedly observed Ruby descend the ramp when the police officer
guarding the entrance, Roy Vaughn, was distracted by a car trying to
manoeuvre into the basement entrance. Vaughn allegedly had to walk
into the middle of the street to divert the car. Daniels THOUGHT the
man entering the basement was a police detective and did not tell
Vaughn. He did, however, notice a bulge at the person's waist ,,, Oy
Vay...that he believed to be a holstered handgun. The Dallas police
tried to discredit Daniel's testimony possibly because he was black
but also because his testimony revealed the incompetence of the Dallas
Police Department.
Another authoritative source has gone on record as late as March 1997
which confirms that Ruby, in the confusion that surrounded the police
station that Sunday morning, did not have any assistance in entering
the basement. Paul McCaghren, a retired police lieutenant who WAS NOT
PRESENT at the time but later investigated the shooting of Oswald,
said that Ruby's access to the basement was JUST LUCKY timing on his
part. He said that in hindsight things should have been done
differently but it was a situation that had never occurred before.
According to the report filed by the Dallas Police Department
investigating Oswald's shooting, an armored truck was to be used to
transport Oswald to the county jail from the city jail. According to
the report, police decided that, ''an unmarked police car would be
better from the standpoint of both speed and deception...Such a car,
bearing Oswald, should follow the armored truck.'' But the police
lieutenant driving the squad car was forced ??? to go the wrong way
on a ramp at police headquarters to pull in front of the armored car
because the exit was blocked. Another police officer, guarding the
area, the report said, was surprised when the lieutenant pulled in and
blasted his car horn to hold the pedestrian traffic. McCaghren said
this is when Ruby slipped into the basement, went immediately down the
ramp and shot Oswald.
Jim Ewell, a former reporter with the Dallas Morning News, maintains
that the idea that the Dallas Police Department had a hand in
assisting Ruby is not true and that Dallas Police Department officials
would have done things differently in the transfer of Oswald but top
city officials OVER-RULED them. He believes the police would have made
the media stand in the street had they been given their way. The city
officials wanted to make sure the world knew that Oswald was not being
mistreated. Furthermore, during the transfer of Oswald, many officers
wereBLINDED by the high intensity television lights which accounted
for the fact that Ruby was able to move among them WITHOUT being
challenged.
Did "Blackie" Hanson speak to you just before you shot Oswald? ...
Where was Blackie during the hour before the transfer?
Mr. HARRISON. About, I would say, 3 or 4 or 5 minutes to 11. I WENT
DOWN to the subbasement to get me some cigars, and as I come back up
out of the subbasement, well, then the officers out of our bureau were
going across from the elevator to the--to there in front of the jail
office.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, there are two basements, as I understand it, in the
Police and Courts Building. One is the basement level that the garage
is on and the jail office and the records room?
Mr. HARRISON. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And then there is a subbasement?
Mr. HARRISON. Locker room.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Locker room down below that. Now, how did you get down
from the third floor into the subbasement? Does the elevator go all of
the way down?
Mr. HARRISON. No, no; it stops at the floor where the jail office is.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. When you get out of the jail office, where do
you have to go?
Mr. HARRISON. Well, actually to the south end.
Mr. GRIFFIN. You walk down to the hallway and then you open a door?
Mr. HARRISON. No; you go down a stairway.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Go down a stairway?
Mr. HARRISON. Into the subbasement.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, there is, is there not, a doorway, as you walk from
Commerce Street down the steps to go to the door that entered into the
building and through the hallway that you had walked down? Do you
follow me?
Mr. HARRISON. No, no; I don't.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Let's suppose that you walked from the record room to the
subbasement by way of the hallway that leads out towards Commerce
Street.
Mr. HARRISON. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, that hallway has a door that goes out of the
building, does it not?
Mr. HARRISON. Right.
Mr. GRIFFIN. And when you open that door and go out of the building,
there are two other doors, right?
Mr. HARRISON. No, no.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Well, isn't there a door on your--on your left as you
face Commerce Street, isn't there a door on your left that goes into
the engine room?
Mr. HARRISON. Actually, I have never--I believe there is a door there.
It is underneath where the stairway goes up.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, there is a door straight ahead where the stairway
goes up? In other words, as you walk out of the door from the building
to leave the building and you step out of there, there is another door
right in front of you right under this stairs----
Mr. HARRISON. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Isn't there?
Mr. HARRISON. Yes.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Now, that door leads down to the subbasement, doesn't it?
Mr. HARRISON. Well, I have never been down that way. I don't know.
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right. From the assembly room, in the assembly room,
where is this cigar dispensing machine?
Mr. HARRISON. They are not in the assembly room.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Not in the assembly room, in the locker room.
Mr. HARRISON. In the locker room.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Where is it located?
Mr. HARRISON. I don't know how to describe it to you. The machine is
about, I guess, 18 foot from the door--from the stairway.
Mr. GRIFFIN. At the far south end?
Mr. HARRISON. No; it is kind of west of the stairway.
Mr. GRIFFIN. West of the stairway, but it is on the south side of the
room, it is on the side closest to Commerce Street?
Mr. HARRISON. No; that is where all of the locker rooms are, lockers
are.
Mr. GRIFFIN. Yes, sir.
Mr. HARRISON. Now, there is a door that separates the locker room from
the area where the cold drinks and where the----
Mr. GRIFFIN. All right.
Mr. HARRISON. Where the cold drinks and the cigar machine and the
cigarette machines are, there is a door that separates that.
Testimony of Jack's friend "Blackie" Harrison
http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/harrison.htm
L'Shalom...
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