"Is it im****tant 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."
Even being a Warrenista, I agree that your scenario is plausible. Since no
one can absolutely verify seeing Ruby entering via the ramp, and we have
basically only his word on it, it leaves an obvious gap in the time-line
of that morning.
However, this is where all the other factors in the case become so
im****tant -- Ruby's extreme depression over the assassination, his
personality of being a wannabe, the testimony of long-time friends and
relatives of the state of his questionable mental health, and his
propensity of being a violent person. I also believe that the time- line
of his movements that morning is just too close for comfort, and doesn't
indicate his premeditation or involvement in a plot.
Just the sheer fact that his receipt at the Western Union office was
stamped 11:17 AM, and the time of the shooting was 11:21, some 4-5 minutes
later, tells me that he walked out of the Western Union office and
hi-tailed it over to the ramp, and simply didn't have the time to go
through an alternative entrance. Apparently seeing the crowd at the police
building, he knew something big was going to happen, and simply went to
check it out, being the person he was. Then, when he saw Oswald, saw the
op****tunity, made a spur of the moment decision and pulled his revolver
(something he carried with him all the time), and shot. This "cutting it
close" tiny sliver of 4-5 minutes between his wiring the money at Western
Union and the actual shooting indicates to me he wasn't shooting as the
result of a plot. What professional killer would be so careless?
In the confusion of that morning in the basement, he simply slipped
unnoticed down the ramp. Yes, in the real world, we all want to say that
this fact seems awfully remote, but sometimes in life coincidences happen,
as we all are aware of. I feel that these coincidences, on their face, and
without considering all the other evidence in the case, (like the
motorcade moving underneath where Oswald worked), has what has given this
case legs and has fueled the conspiracy movement for so many years.
Of course, there's room here for speculation with Ruby and the ramp issue,
but common sense, with all the evidence of what we know, tells me that's
how it went down. Unfortunately we don't have that one witness who could
have seen Ruby positively and without question enter the ramp.
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