Chuck Boyles ran a late night talk show on KLIF radio in Dallas and
frequently discussed the assassination with callers. One evening an
inidentified woman called and told Boyles, and the listening audience,
there were telephone calls betwee Ruby and Oswald. The woman
explained that she wroded as a telephone operator in the WHitehall
exchange and not only remembered the calls, but said the *telephone
company had records of the calls.*
The woman explained that when Ruby tried to call Oswald, and was
unable to get through because the pay phone Oswald was using was busy,
he would call the operator and tell her that his call was an
emergency. The operator would then interrupt the call, ask the
callers to get off the line, and make a record of the call as required
by the phone company. The woman said that Ruby used this trick so
frequently that she remembered his name and numerous calls.
These "emergency call records," mentioned by the unidentified
telephone opreator, may have been given to the Dallas Police by the
Area Commercial Manager of Southwestern Bell, Raymond A. Acker. Acker
took the phone company records to the Dallas Police Department after
the assassination and told the police they were proof of calls between
Ruby and Oswald. Acker said that after he gave the records to the
Dallas Police, *he was told to go home and keep his mouth shut.*
Phone calls within the Dallas area, which included Irving and Oak
Cliff, were not toll calls and were not recorded by the phone
company. The only local calls that were recorded by the phone company
were "emergency" calls (which the operator said Ruby placed to
Oswald).
Some of Jack Ruby's emergency phone call may have caused Oswald to
return calls to the Carousel Club. In the days leading up to the
assassination Ruby's handyman, Larry Crafard, received many calls from
an unknown male who never identified himself of left a message.
Crafard told the Warren Commission, "This gentleman would call maybe
two or threee times a day asking for Jack. He would ask where he
could reach Jack. It sounded like it was pretty im****tant that he
reach Jack, and that he would never leave a number where Jack could
call him back at." When Crafard asked Ruby about these strange
telephone calls he was told to mind his own business.
On November 26, 1963 Larry Crafard told SA John Flanagan that Jack
Ruby's home phone number was WHitehall 1-5601. On November 29, 1963
Crafard told SA Theodore Cramer that Ruby's unlisted home telephone
number was WHitehall 1-1050. Oswald's rooming house was WH 3-8993.
There is no indication the FBI checked telephone company records for
emergency calls placed to or from these numbers.
Harvey and Lee pgs. 768-9
CJ
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