Revisiting the Carroll Jarnigan Story

The Education Forum ^ | October 1, 2021 | Greg Doudna

[SaxxonWoods]

Carroll Jarnagin was the Dallas attorney who wrote to J. Edgar Hoover on Dec. 3, 1963 an account of a claim to have overheard a conversation in the Carousel Club on Oct. 4, 1963, between Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald discussing a contract killing for hire of the governor of Texas to be carried out by Oswald on a parade route, shooting a rifle from the Carousel Lounge. (The FBI report on Jarnagin requested by FBI headquarters in response which has all the documents and interviews starts here: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=56992#relPageId=98&search=jarnagin.)

[SaxxonWoods]

I just came across this story accidentally and this is crazy! I knew Carroll Jarnigan in 1973-4. He was living in Handley, Texas, his house faced Rose Hill Cemetary, Oswald was buried a few hundred feet away! A friend said if we took him a bottle of whiskey he would let us fish for bass in his ponds. We did, several times, the fishing was good. He would rant about the FBI, the assassination, Ruby, attempts on his life, etc. He would make sense and then not make sense, kind of in and out. He would wear an overcoat in 95 degree weather, which is common with the mentally ill. He would read long poems which seemed to have messages in them but I couldn't figure them out. I can't believe I came across this article!

[Responsibility2nd]

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=56992#relPageId=100&search=jarnagin

[SaxxonWoods]

Thanks, very interesting! I wonder if Connally was the target, Oswald blew it (as he did with the general he tried to kill), and that’s why Ruby cussed him before shooting him. Maybe old Carroll did know something after all.

[Jan_Sobieski]

It appears Oswald was the patsy. Ruby took out the patsy to cover the professional hit. Interesting that HW was in town that day